Chess as a life lesson...losing has value.
I recently got back into playing Chess. My Dad just got an iPhone and we've had a few games going of 'Chess with Friends' (A great app...turn based so you make a move and wait for the next person to make theirs). It got me thinking though about life and us as Americans. In this current game I'm playing...I'm pretty screwed. Pop's got both his knights and one rook still out there with 5 pawns and I have 1 knight and 5 pawns. He's got me mated in probably less than 4 moves at this point...so I ask myself..."why am I still playing?" I realized why right away...and it's what I see wrong in society today. Most people have become afraid to lose. I see it more with today's kids. I think in this super stimulated, video game, blu-ray internet age...kids have become less active then they were...and it seems that education has moved to a system that seems to hold mediocrity and success as equal. We give all the kids awards. Some teams stopped keeping ...