I’ve been playing chess on and off ever since the end of 2018.
That’s 5 years of playing, mostly online against random people. But I became more serious last year when I joined a real-life chess club—a new one just created at my university.
Joining that chess club meant regularly playing over the board (almost) every Thursday evening, purely for fun. Just catching up with friends and having a great time.
I also entered a few chess competitions on the side. You know. To see how well I’d fare against players who practiced, took lessons, have been playing for the better part of their lives, and regularly joined these types of competitions.
And, to my surprise, I actually did quite well most of the time.
Now, I never won anything special. But I always placed higher than I expected and sometimes won against people who I thought were (and are) much better players than I was.
The crazy part of this? I had never taken any formal lessons or schooling whatsoever. I learned everything through the sheer volume of games I played online and the occasional YouTube video I would watch.
That is, until yesterday.
I took my first chess lesson ever. Organized by that same chess club at my university.
I didn’t really know what to expect. But boy. That was a valuable lesson.
Not to bore you with the chess specifics. But the things I learned. I never even thought about the game that way. We were discussing game plans and the weakening of structures in ways I didn’t even realize mattered. And when I occasionally knew something was up, I couldn’t figure out why.
So yes. That 90-minute session showed me just how much knowledge I lacked. Which is amazing. Because now I clearly know what to focus on and where I can (and must) improve.
And that reminded me of something important. Not just in chess, but in all of life—business included.
The most costly things in life (and business) are those things you do not know you lack.
I did not realize an important fundamental rule of the importance of certain structures in chess. So I couldn’t even ask questions about it or educate myself on it because I simply didn’t know it mattered. I was simply unable to ask a question about it because I lacked the knowledge necessary to ask the question itself.
I lacked the knowledge necessary to realize I lacked knowledge.
Read that again. Imagine if I never would’ve realized that in my playing career. How would I have improved? How many losses could I have avoided in my life if I had known about (and could learn) this topic earlier? How many losses am I going to avoid in the future by knowing about this?
Answer: a lot.
Now reframe that to your life and business. How much money are you failing to make simply because you lack something you don’t even know you lack?
Answer: a lot.
And that’s the true power of education.
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