I’ve never been a skilled chess player, and I believe it’s better to be a mediocre player than to leave uninformed and irrelevant comments on the Internet about topics I’m not well-versed in. Being bad at chess is never harmful to anyone. (It might just ruin one's feelings. 🙄)
Discussion
Personally, I find it amusing that I can be highly competitive when playing games with others, even though I’m not particularly skilled at those games. I suppose I don’t really care about winning. What I do care about is the feeling of losing, if that makes sense. So, it’s wiser to learn how to accept those feelings if I don’t think I’ll ever get better at those games.
Politics, business, and games are all about winning. However, society cannot function solely on the basis of winners. Sometimes we win, and sometimes we lose—that’s the essence of democracy. If you’re perpetually determined to win and become the sole victor of the game, you risk becoming one of those dictators in history. Some of these individuals were once respected leaders of their countries. However, they couldn’t resist the temptation to resort to minor cheating at the end of achieving remarkable accomplishments as great leaders. And for some reason, this minor cheating repeated itself repeatedly, eventually escalating into a major form of corruption that could not be stopped by anyone. If that day ever arrives, it typically signifies that it’s too late.
Therefore, I firmly believe that it is always beneficial to begin small when attempting to instill a positive spirit among citizens for the sake of a democratic society. You never know what seemingly insignificant action could potentially snowball into a significant movement after repeated patterns of accumulation.
So, I suppose the moral of the story is… Don’t be a sore loser? 🙄