Life - it's Tetris, do not play it like a game of chess

From the age of seven, I always played in chess. I played at school, online and on the national championship. Chess has taught me patience, perseverance, critical thinking - the necessary skills to solve life's problems and difficult situations.

More chess at a young age instilled in me the ability to establish causal relationships. Rearrange the horse here, and there will be a trap for the opponent elephant. Capture the pawn - weakened his right side. Each correct step brings me to the mat, each misstep pulls me to defeat.

Chess is also familiar with the idea of ​​others. Black against white. Our school is against them. Each game takes place on the principle of "who is who".

I played chess seriously to 15 years, around the time I got my first cell phone. Then the phone was telling sign of the freedom of a teenager, even if there was no real benefit from it. I well remember him: a small clamshell with a color screen. I always wore a phone as a symbol of my independence. Since it was impossible to go to the Internet or to send photos, but I found a way to kill the boredom with the help of a built-in games - Tetris. And bought

addiction.

Tetris - for those who do not know - it embodied the frustration. He monotonous! It is impossible to win! It all depends on luck! But for me, this game has become the most correct explanation of life as a whole. As compared to Tetris and chess - it's just a silly game of war.

I no longer take part in chess competitions. Tetris - the only game on my phone. She is the first among my screen applications and serves as a reminder to me that life - it's Tetris, not chess.

I'll tell you about the differences in the following four points. Perhaps you, too, have played the game properly.

1. In life, your only opponent - yourself

I grew up looking at opponents - people with whom you need to fight, argue, which is necessary to condemn, to prove them wrong. I imagined enemies when they were not, because it is easier to fight.

I saw everything in terms of "who is who" and was looking for an opportunity to win. This chess thinking. And it pulls you back.

In Tetris you are only playing against time and a steady stream of blocks that fall from the top down. Such thinking is directed inward, you check yourself for strength, trying to correctly send a random stream in an ordered form. There's no one to blame.

This game of life is completely internal. It has no enemies that are there just to cause you pains. It has no clear right or wrong movement that a rival could use for their own purposes. And your score can be increased indefinitely, change faster or slower, if you try harder.

2. Life does not get more complicated, it becomes faster

The more you play some games, the harder it is. The combinations are more difficult opponents - stronger rates rise. Do you have a public rating, which falls when you play with the same opponents. But not in Tetris.

The game remains the same. The only thing that is changing - speed.

If you play Tetris for life at a very slow speed, then, most likely, will never lose. The only enemy is fatigue. But the defeat of Tetris algorithm is simple: you always have enough time to move the blocks in the best place for them.

Tetris often we experience ourselves. We will not be content to just make one line at a time. We try to get the "Tetris" - four lines simultaneously. So the game is called. Why play if you do not run the risk?

I have long experience life as a chess - a series of ever-increasing difficulties. I've seen problems where there were none, and thought as a victim of circumstances. But life is not really becomes difficult. As we get older, we have more money, and wisdom. Our independence is growing. We do not have to shoulder the new problems, if they themselves do not want to. But we are committed to a full life, so often do.

However, life does get faster. Each passing day - it's a small percentage of our whole life, and it seems that time moves faster. Responsibilities under pressure as long as the tasks that should we really like, we are perceived as unpleasant or annoying distractions.

The only way to understand life, as in Tetris - is to learn to play with the same degree of self-control at the highest speeds. You can not give up on their goals, no matter how fast moving. You have to control your thinking, your behavior, your time.

3. In life you can not control the board

As I mentioned earlier, chess express causal relationships. There is always the best move in a given position. You can drive an opponent into a corner. You can see 20 moves ahead, if you're a supercomputer.

In chess, there is a set of recommendations and best games. Stroke E4 is considered a strong first move for White, and E3 - no. All because of chess - it's a closed system. They do not have random demands, there is no place just luck. The figures always move the same, the starting position is always identical.

And in Tetris? You know just what will be the next block. You play in the present, trying to build a better structure, knowing that it is impossible to predict the situation even two blocks ahead. You do not have the misconception that you control the future.

I spent most of my life with chess thinking, trying to find a better opportunity or trying to direct their way according to the preliminary findings. I was programmed to look for cause-and-effect relationships in all that surrounded me, and wanted to keep everything under control.

But in real life not everything is cause and effect. There exists a distribution of possible events. Events that happen once in a million. There's no predictable response to your every action. Life - this is an open system where a certain number of obscure events may change your views and perspectives at any time. Even the most significant events in the life of one can hardly count - that's why so many marriages end in divorce.

Do not try to predict what events will occur, but instead try to improve the current situation. As in Tetris, you can put yourself in a better position at a particular moment, without trying to control the entire system. Use all means, control and change yourself, but do not expect any advantage just because you've done something.

4. In life, no one will tell you when you have won

In chess you can see the defeat of an opponent when his king checkmated. You will see the final score of the tournament. You will feel the satisfaction of victory - to some certain point.

I remember the day I gave up chess. I was not beaten, and I was not discouraged. In fact, I won the tournament. And then just I do not feel anything.

In accordance with the millennial chess rules, there are only two ways to play: get the mat or surrender. On the day when I left the chess, I found the third. If I do not study, if you do not enjoy the fight and win, I lose.

The decision to give up chess was dismissive, chilling and very controversial. Why do I feel so free after being dropped cause that love? Leaving chess, I felt good for the same reason why felt good when I started to play: it was entirely my personal choice. And with this decision, my prone to competition chess, cause-and-effect thinking began to weaken, and the outlook brightened.

Meanwhile Tetris began to fill my need for games. I play Tetris every day. And every day when I go to the game, I know that I will lose. But how long will I play before I lose? How quickly will fall blocks? How many points I type?

I like to be uncompromising in setting goals for yourself. I get great satisfaction from the fact that regularly throw themselves new challenges. But I know if I can achieve what mean.

The game of Tetris every day helps me to maintain commitment, attention, ability to aggressively move towards the goals that I know I will have no end. And I do not play in order to win, I play for the sake of the game.

We should all play in life, just to play. We should not only see around enemies or seek to control everything. We need to realize that it all depends on which side you look at it. Chess can be a boring game, but Tetris too. Both of these games require patience and determination.

You and only you can decide how to play in our lives. Try to choose the right game.