The mentor, Chris, was a skilled chess player and he’d drawn some analogies between chess and life. “He shared this concept of a strategic retreat.” There are times both in chess and in life, when you’re going down a certain path, and you hit a roadblock. And then you realize that the moves you’re trying to make aren’t working out. “At those times, I have to abandon that game plan and re-strategize, and make a strategic retreat and take a different plan of attack.”
