Their are a bunch of abstract wisdoms that are portable between chess and real life;

Over extending - When you have an advantage pushing it to far, or reaching for to much space without being able to support it.

Defense Vs Offense - You can defend yourself by counter attacking and you cant only focus on attacking because you might get attacked.

Having broad awareness - Instead of getting tunnel visioned on one line of thinking you have to understanding everything to some extent.

Philosophizing with a hammer (Reference to Jordan Peterson's Nietzsche Course) - The most powerful approach is try to and prove yourself wrong.

Play between tactics and strategy - There are general principals that can be applied but this is in play with the exact events that can actually occur

Adaptation - It's important to stay flexible; Even if you have a great strategy, tunnel vision on your plan my cause you to miss opportunities.

The Play between complexity and "smoothness" (Dr. John Vervaeke Reference) - Games can either be very smooth (Which requires long term strategies, and deep positional understanding) or complex (Which requires high tactical proficiency)

The nature of the game changes at various levels - At the lowest level the excitement is derived by the mystery and aesthetic nature of the games, then as it moves higher, by spotting pieces you can capture, then by understanding basic patterns, then strategies, and the nature of these strategies increase in complexity as the level moves up.

I feel like there are probably more philosophies in chess....

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