I'm not a good chess player. Perhaps causally, I was never very interested in it either.
But recently, I saw something new -- chess is macro game. It's a game between sides, not between pieces.
I don't know why it took me 16 years to see this. Okay, it was definitely some combination of taking the game for granted and a lack of further interest. Those aren't bad things -- I think you should spend the most time on the things you care most about. But they have led to at least two very scary results:
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When learning something new, it's easy to step back and realize where knowledge and integration gaps exist. I've known about chess my whole life, and never stopped to back up.
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This new perspective has reinvigorated my interest in chess and made me a much stronger player.
There are many analogies you can derive here. So I challenge you:
Where else is the Big Picture being missed?
