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Debbie Lamey-MacDonald's avatar

Really enjoyed this post Adam! Love the idea of monitoring one's choices by picking the best choice out of three. Too often we operate in auto pilot in our busy lives. Thanks for sharing! 🤗

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Adam Ming's avatar

We do, and then it’s checkmate!

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Debbie Lamey-MacDonald's avatar

Lol sooo true!

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Emily Kaminsky's avatar

Chess obsession has taken our household by storm and I am not immune! It has become a metaphor for many a situation in my life. Also, there are many moments of exclaimation and commentary that are some mixture of the following: "take, take, take, and then if I go there, they go there, even trade, I'm up material, ROOK!, check!"

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Adam Ming's avatar

That commentary does sound a lot like LIFE!

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John Durrant's avatar

I love the idea of intentionally choosing between Candidate Moves - it's a useful mind tool for a piece I'm righting at the moment about defining and choosing between different pathways in life. The idea of Candidate Moves feeds into probabilistic thinking - making bets rather than deluding ourselves with certainty of outcomes.

Chess is humbling game, I recently played 3 games against a friend's 12 year old son. He thrashed me in all three (he's in the UK top 10 for his age category). He enjoyed thrashing me too, gleefully informing me of my mistakes along the way. Good luck with the hobby.

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Adam Ming's avatar

It is a humbling game, when you lose it’s all your fault! It would be cool if you use the candidate move idea in the coming week!

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RAJ KAUR's avatar

Also a fan of the 3 checks - break that addiction!!

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Adam Ming's avatar

Did you manage to do it?

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RAJ KAUR's avatar

NOT AT ALL! Its SO hard!

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Beth Spencer's avatar

The 3-check challenge! I love that! 😄

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Adam Ming's avatar

I write these as 3 line items on my do list. I’m working on being very precise with my do list for the day! (It’s still hard though!)

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Emily Charlotte Powell's avatar

Really interesting concepts in this post Adam! I like the idea of three times and candidate moves, although I wonder if there’s too much chaos in my life for the former. I would choose to spend a longer more focussed amount of time against frequent quick checks, but the time I have available for ‘checking’ has to be fluid and interruptible and fit around me and not the other way round.

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Adam Ming's avatar

Thank you - it’s by no means easy to do the 3 times thing! But it makes the checking more enjoyable and focused! And it’s really cool when I ask myself, Do I want to use up a check now?

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