Rules of the Game

I used to be an avid chess player. (more proof that I am a nerd/geek) I was on the chess team. My senior year of high school, we won the state chess tournament and went to the nationals. Needless to say, I have a real appreciation for the game and its strategies. Chess is one of the things that can easily provide anyone with several lifetimes of study.

A couple of months ago I stumbled upon an online video of a guy named Michael Tsarion. This guy is a conspiracy researcher. Since I was in the mood to see some paranoid stuff, I watched him talk. While I can’t remember his specific subject, he did leave me with a very valuable lesson on strategy. It was like Sun Tzu in a convenient capsule form.

I do remember that Tsarion was talking about the cabal that (according to him) runs the world – New World Order, Illuminati, CFR, Bilderbergers, Rockefellers, whoever. He framed his observations of their workings in terms of chess. And immediately my ears perked up. He said that these people had four major points of philosophy that they live and work by. They are:

1. Know yourself
2. Know the enemy / competition
3. Have infinite patience
4. Make any sacrifice necessary to win

All chess and conspiracy theory aside, these meta-strategies (I just made that word up.) look like the keys to succeed at anything. I really don’t see any way to make these any simpler or more comprehensive.

Every now and then I think about this as a guide to live by and to use as a framework around which to build my success. I have a long way to go and a lot of work to do on myself to even get close to using these tenets to their maximum potential.