Hello, world! I’m Sande, a software engineer from Melbourne, Australia.
I write about my past experiences and future inspirations.
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Past experiences and future inspirations.
Being a game that requires deep thinking and has lots of small nuances, I believe there are many life lessons that we can take from playing chess. In this post, I want to share a few that I've noticed and experienced. It is by no means an exhaustive list, but it's a list of the ones that I found interesting.
"Speech is silver, but silence is golden"
As a self acclaimed introvert, I absolutely lived by that quote. In a lot of situations, I thought that it was wise to stay silent. Or perhaps I was just using it as an excuse. "It's not that I don't have anything to say, I chose not to say anything!" Of course, I would also have long conversations where I do talk, usually in something that I would call deep talks. I saw it as the only form of talks that are worth having.
However, I then learned about the importance and necessity of small talk.
In this commercialised world, there are millions of consumer products for us to choose from. Nowadays, almost anything that you can think of can be bought, from the right place for the right price. When choosing what to buy, our first look on an item might be from the item on display, from a review video, or from borrowing it from a friend. Then, when we finally purchase the item, most of the time we would get it in some sort of packaging.