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

by Garry Kasparov

“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.”

The situation is not so clear for most people. We can go through our day-to-day lives without changing our habits and nothing terrible will happen to us. The problem is that it is also highly unlikely anything at all will happen to us—including good things. Successfully avoiding challenges is not an accomplishment to be proud of.

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”