Life and chess have a lot in common.
Anyone who plays this ancient game knows that if you are feeling unwell, the risk of losing increases many times over, notes Yaroslav Borisenko , a Belarusian author of books.
In everyday life, also when making various decisions, the best decision will be made in a relaxed state and when nothing bothers you. But there is one nuance here.
A master of sports in chess, even in a disgusting state, even having consumed a small amount of alcohol, even having woken up in the middle of the night, in 99% of cases will definitely win against an amateur and even a person with the 1st category, who are in excellent physical and mental condition.
This will happen because a master of sports is much superior in decision-making to ordinary players, and even his poor health will not affect the outcome of the game with such opponents.
But if the opponents are equal and one of them is in poor physical shape, then the chances of winning are higher for the player who has no pain.
In everyday life, the best decisions are also made by a person with more life experience in a particular area, if the decisions concern that area or if such decisions are made by a person in a relaxed state.
So don't make serious decisions in a bad form, put them off, take a break, restore your health and vital energy. And only then return to making decisions.
In his book The New Behavioural Economics, 2017 Nobel laureate in economics Richard Thaler writes that when people take risks and lose, they become psychologically unbalanced and continue to bet in the hope of winning, but they take even more risks when they lose.
Nowadays, poker is given a lot of attention because it is possible to win big money. And citizens of our country have repeatedly won prestigious world tournaments with million-dollar winnings.
But not everyone knows that behind such wins there are years of training, consultations with the best psychologists, as well as many character traits that are typical of such players.
So the most important rule of playing poker or any other game for money is not to risk your last.
It is important to know, and the best psychologists teach this, that you need to divide your money into 100 parts and in 1 day, no matter how the game goes, not lose more than one hundredth part. This is the basic knowledge of leading players.
Therefore, the risk must be conscious, according to the rules, and try not to make important decisions in a bad form.
