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How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom

Book by Garry Kasparov · 4 quotes · Chess, Ifs, Success

This book delves into the lessons learned from the game of chess and applies them to various aspects of life and business.

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This book delves into the lessons learned from the game of chess and applies them to various aspects of life and business.

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“To play chess on a truly high level requires a constant stream of exact, informed decisions, made in real time and under pressure from your opponent. What's more, it requires a synthesis of some very different virtues, all of which are necessary to good decisions: calculatioñ, creativity and a desire for results. If you ask a Grandmaster, an artist and a computer scientist what makes a good chess player, you'll get a glimpse of these different strengths in action.”

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“It's not enough to be talented. It's not enough to work hard and to study late into the night. You must also become intimately aware of the methods you use to reach your decisions.”

Hard Enough Use Night Decision Study Hard Work Late Method

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“The stock market and the gridiron and the battlefield aren't as tidy as the chessboard, but in all of them, a single, simple rule holds true: make good decisions and you'll succeed; make bad ones and you'll fail.”

Success Simple Decision Failing Succeed Chess Battlefields Tidy Good Decision Gridiron

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“Sometimes the hardest thing to do in a pressure situation is to allow the tension to persist. The temptation is to make a decision, any decision, even if it is an inferior choice.”

Ifs Sometimes Success Choices Decision Situation Pressure Chess Hardest Temptation Things To Do Tension Inferiors Persist Hardest Thing Hardest Thing To Do

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