Our minds are all different and I believe cultivating a keen introspective sensitivity is absolutely essential in discovering our potential.

In chess you might find a good move. Then you might find a better move. But take your time. Find the best move.

One thing about the business and investing world that I connect to very intimately is that there is little room to deny the harsh realities of your mistakes. A bad call can lose you many millions.

Very gifted people, they win and they win, and they are told that they win because they are a winner. That seems like a positive thing to tell children, but ultimately, what that means is when they lose, it must make them a loser.

Of course the sad truth is that if we are not present to the moment, our true love could come and go and we wouldn't even notice.

I believe an appreciation for simplicity, the everyday - the ability to dive deeply into the banal and discover life's hidden richness - is where success, let alone happiness, emerges.

I tend not to dwell on the parallels between chess and business, chess and the martial arts, or any two things for that matter, because the truth is that all pursuits are connected if we gain an eye for the thematic links.