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Knowing the chess board fully
An entrepreneur once said in a class he was teaching,
“It’s hard to have a solid game plan when you do not know the whole chess board. Get to know all the squares of the chess board fully.”
This resonated with me a lot. At that time, I was finding myself in a difficult situation, at a fork in the road in multiple areas of my life. Having to choose between one or the other, both paths being life-altering.
However, what we often do not realise is that there are more than the options which are put in front of us. We build our paths based on what we deem to be possible. But there is a good chance that there are options out there available which we have not thought of and are utterly unaware of.
If I look back, many times in my life I made a decision based on my limited knowledge of what options were available to me at that time. What you believe to be possible is a direct result of the perspectives you gain from other people around you. For example, when I graduated from high school and had to pick a field for university, the only two options I thought I had were medicine and engineering. That’s because these were the paths everyone in my school, family and friends was considering. So I hesitantly picked medicine, as the 13th doctor in the family. A year into medical school, now…
