It s a good question I will have to think about it.
what Chess have taught you in real life?
My chess has been All about patience...
- Patience when seeing a tactic
- Patience when playing a game
- Patience when working for chess improvment
- Patience when talking to the trolls of the cc forum?
I've learned that failure is not always bad, sometimes necessary even. It's part of the learning process, and can teach you more than winning.
I tell my kids that chess CAN BE a microcosm of life in that you have to aware of the situation, have a long and short term plan, change your plan if opportunity presents itself, strike with enough violence to end the conflict quickly if you can, play fair and be gracious in defeat as well as humble in victory.
I can also know the personality of my opponent, if he/she a brave a coward a sneaky or a Noble mean life low life a gentel man a decent woman...
from the way he/she play I know a lot of his/her personality...
I also watching chess games now and I feel the same feeling of the people who watch a football game...
I can feel the danger or read between lines in the work site and that helped me a loooot.....
1. Cats like toast always land butter side down.
2. Youll never succeed carrying a helium tank around.
3. No one really wants the last piece of cake.
The Chess has taught me to enjoy those small happy things and smile in the darkest day. To pay attetion in the aparetly insignificant things.
I learned to be patient and to fight it out - and that sometimes things suddenly change in my favor if I persist... :-)



Personally, it revealed to me my personality from different aspects. My pros and cons not clearly but which can be judged after little deep observation of oneself.
Share what you have learned and unlearned and re-learned in this regard.
Thank you