Entrepreneurship and Chess...Yes Chess

I read somewhere that chess is a game of very small advantages. When the game begins, the players are equal, both hold the same number of pieces in the same positions. But then every move either adds to your position (competitive advantage) or subtracts from it. These small decisions (resulting in a better pawn structure, a more secure king, a centrally positioned knight, and so on) that you make with every move accumulate into victory.?

Entrepreneurship is not that much different, especially in today’s world where access to information has flattened. Access to learning is exponential but on the flip side one needs to cancel out the noise from the social media gurus and avoid FOMO ing’ into $hit coins.

The key to succeeding in this irrational shiny objects solo entrepreneurial world is to actively ingrain each one of these principles into your diversified daily operating system, improving your process just a little on a daily basis, and only then can entrepreneurial success follow.?

Finally, this would not be worthy if I did not contradict myself. Entrepreneurship is also unlike chess. Entrepreneurship affords us a luxury that few people appreciate: You can choose your own opponent. In chess tournaments, you don’t get to choose your opponent. Tournament organizers match you to someone with an equal rating; then as you win, you are progressively matched against better opponents.?

In entrepreneurship, you are the “tournament organizer and master.” You get to walk into the room and, instead of choosing the geekiest opponent – the guy with magnifying glasses who hasn’t been on a date in years and has only thought and dreamt about chess his entire like – you can go for the gym rat dude who spends 4 hours a day in the gym, and only joined the tournament because he lost a bet.?

Remember $Money doesn’t know how you made it. A hundred dollars made by solving easy problems (strategically buying ei industrial real estate and where both your IQ and EQ were at their highest) buys as much as a hundred dollars that caused you to lose your hair.?

In entrepreneurship, you don’t have to solve the problems that everyone else is solving. There are millions of opportunities out there, and all you need is only a handful of passion projects to make it. However you do need to take that LEAP OF FAITH once you’ve figured out your point of entry.

Let’s do this

SsF