What would be a brilliant sacrifice ?

[thierry]

If you play chess from time to time, like I do, you probably know how satisfying it is to analyze one of your games and discover that you made a brilliant move.

Brilliant moves are often counterintuitive. They require you to see far beyond the immediate position, to understand how something that seems like a loss in the present can lead to a much greater advantage in the future. And more often than not, they involve a sacrifice.

I was looking back at the analysis of one of my games, in which I had made a brilliant move, when a thought suddenly struck me.

In chess, when you make a brilliant sacrifice, you have an engine to tell you just how brilliant it was. You have an objective analysis that reveals the deeper logic behind your decision.

But in life, there is no such engine.

There is no algorithm to tell you that giving something up today might turn out to be the most brilliant move you could ever make.

And that led me to a question I haven’t been able to shake:

What sacrifice could I make in my own life that would turn out to be a brilliant move?

Not just a worthwhile sacrifice. Not just a necessary one. But a truly brilliant one the kind whose wisdom might only become apparent many moves later.

Sit with that question for a moment.

I think it’s an incredibly powerful one.

 

[integration journey]

5 minutes ago, thierry said:

What sacrifice could I make in my own life that would turn out to be a brilliant move?

 

Good question!

[Madyar]

6 hours ago, thierry said:

If you play chess from time to time, like I do, you probably know how satisfying it is to analyze one of your games and discover that you made a brilliant move.

Brilliant moves are often counterintuitive. They require you to see far beyond the immediate position, to understand how something that seems like a loss in the present can lead to a much greater advantage in the future. And more often than not, they involve a sacrifice.

I was looking back at the analysis of one of my games, in which I had made a brilliant move, when a thought suddenly struck me.

In chess, when you make a brilliant sacrifice, you have an engine to tell you just how brilliant it was. You have an objective analysis that reveals the deeper logic behind your decision.

But in life, there is no such engine.

There is no algorithm to tell you that giving something up today might turn out to be the most brilliant move you could ever make.

And that led me to a question I haven’t been able to shake:

What sacrifice could I make in my own life that would turn out to be a brilliant move?

Not just a worthwhile sacrifice. Not just a necessary one. But a truly brilliant one the kind whose wisdom might only become apparent many moves later.

Sit with that question for a moment.

I think it’s an incredibly powerful one.

 

 

losing your sanity, disconnecting from the mind.

[cetus]

7 hours ago, thierry said:

What sacrifice could I make in my own life that would turn out to be a brilliant move?

To achieve what? It depends on the goal. Love? Money? Happiness? success? Self-realization? ect.

And the next question would be: what do you have that you would be willing to sacrifice?

For example, if the goal was self-realization would you be willing to give up making as much money?

[Joseph Maynor]

I sacked a Queen today in a game knowing I could promote another one.  

https://www.chess.com/game/computer/2568529348?move=0

Edited 5 hours ago by Joseph Maynor

[Inliytened1]

17 hours ago, thierry said:

If you play chess from time to time, like I do, you probably know how satisfying it is to analyze one of your games and discover that you made a brilliant move.

Brilliant moves are often counterintuitive. They require you to see far beyond the immediate position, to understand how something that seems like a loss in the present can lead to a much greater advantage in the future. And more often than not, they involve a sacrifice.

I was looking back at the analysis of one of my games, in which I had made a brilliant move, when a thought suddenly struck me.

In chess, when you make a brilliant sacrifice, you have an engine to tell you just how brilliant it was. You have an objective analysis that reveals the deeper logic behind your decision.

But in life, there is no such engine.

There is no algorithm to tell you that giving something up today might turn out to be the most brilliant move you could ever make.

And that led me to a question I haven’t been able to shake:

What sacrifice could I make in my own life that would turn out to be a brilliant move?

Not just a worthwhile sacrifice. Not just a necessary one. But a truly brilliant one the kind whose wisdom might only become apparent many moves later.

Sit with that question for a moment.

I think it’s an incredibly powerful one.

 

That's the whole trick.  You won't know yet. You set the plans in motion ans hopefully it turns out.  That's called risk taking.  And you need to take calculated risks in life to get ahead. You must make these moves.  It is much like the queen's gambit in chess indeed.

[Wilhelm44]

And you need to be willing to sacrifice the results of that brilliant move also.

[Inliytened1]

5 minutes ago, Wilhelm44 said:

And you need to be willing to sacrifice the results of that brilliant move also.

Indeed

[Salvijus]

"For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it." ~the bible