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All these speculations. Y'all should just chill and go catch some fun this weekend. Life is not all about PTDF before somebody dies out of HIGH BP

Ghostofspata:
Hahahah... Interview was jst last month u knw. All in all it has not reached 3 months. If u had applied for DPR job, u for don get heart attack by now. Its started in 2016 n up to now it had not bn concluded.

I believe the DPR own you're using as example may have concluded internally within weeks and they're just wasting some candidates time. Unlike PTDF, they don't publish names and aren't under obligation to do so.

PTDF publishes names, so it's natural to be a bit anxious. No one has to wait 3 months.

By the way this is a scholarship application, not a job application. The anxiety is natural.

theSpark:
Portsmouth here

Great.. Send me a private message. Let's chat via email..

The atmosphere is tense as everyone is waiting for any information from PTDF. So let me use the opportunity to know my prospective colleagues.. If you chose University of Portsmouth, Dundee University or Imperial College.. Say hi..

pode:
God forbid, this can be the original jersey but the origin of the jersey

hahaha

Young lady by name Nora shares picture of Her Super Eagles Jersey. Nigerian players for the world cup have a dedicated fan!

Tobi's story just dey change very quickly even though he wasn't the overall winner. May your story change for better this June. Your surprise is loading..

majekdom2:
we need to get on the board someday!
Chess confirms there is nothing like luck as people think but real luck is a product of Hardwork, critical thinking and the right opportunity. Continuous practice, with critical thinking and the opportunity is the weak move your opponent makes. You must be fully awake to see that opportunity as it may be the only one you might have in the game.
Another lesson: No one is useless in this life. The pawns seems to be the weakest but sometimes they can be the saving piece. Treat every one nicely.
No one wins alone, you need the moves of all the pieces in a game.
Trapping your opponent’sking= victory: You either kill or buy the competition.

This is wonderful.. Let's play on Lichess

DanXplore:
Nice one op, but in the game of chess, i’d rather invest my moves in building a stone wall defence around my king before attacking. It has always worked for me

lol.. I'll beat your stonewall with ease.

youcanmakeit:
I love this post

Thanks. There's more on boldwinner.com

pocohantas:
I'll say: don't be too predictable.


Have more than one game plan to achieve your desired goal (i.e)
Always have a plan A,B,C,D...even Z.

Learn to use every weapon in your arsenal. Never be too attached to any piece. Lest you lose it and become useless.

Never lose hope. Even when you're left with just the king, pawns and a bishop . Keep pushing.


That said, my best piece has to be the rook, it has the second highest point (that's after the queen, which I intentionally omitted).

lovely!

You Play on Lichess?

rawpadgin:
11. The pun is the but sometimes it becomes anything u want it to be

you meant pawn

locust:
A pawn can later become a queen. Never underestimate/look down on anyone.

Lovely! How did I forget to include this?

NwanyiAwkaetiti:
Protect your Queen (Wife or Girlfriend)

lol

Divay22:
Nice

Thank you

IamPlato:
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Great

Thanks

10 years experience is perfect!

Goodlyhrt:
The most important shd be dont underestimate anyone

That should be number 10. Great point!

Dafidi17:
Nice write up... #thumbsUp#

Thank you

Chess is a wonderful intellectual game. It is not merely an idle amusement as wrongly believed by those who may not understand the beauty of the game. It is a game in which several wonderful capacities of the mind can be developed.

Many things happen on a chess board from which we can pick vital lessons that could help us in our daily lives. It is almost eight years long since I learnt how to play chess. And so far so good here are 9 life lessons I have learnt from the game:

1. Never give up

This one comes first because I feel it's the most important lesson I've learnt from playing chess. Many times when I play with stronger players and find myself in a bad position, I tend to easily lose hope. I'm like "What's the point?" "The game is already lost."

But as I advanced in gameplay, I stopped giving up easily when I've made any errors or when I appear to be losing. I just focused on playing as best as I could given the situation. In doing this, I often found many other opportunities which help me to bounce back into the game and gain an upper hand.

I realized that any mistakes I made wasn't the end. Despite my position, I should focus on making the most of my moves. And I have applied this lesson to life to liberate my mind from depression.

2. Women are powerful
In chess, the queen is the most powerful piece on the board. Not the king. The queen can move in any direction and for longer distances. While the king has one step to move around it. Though the king is the most important piece, it has limited mobility.

I have often asked why this had to be so until the message became clear to me. Women are powerful influencers. Hell hath no fury like that of a woman. The place of women in the society and their capacities even though they may look physically weaker must never be underestimated.

And if you take a peek at history, the downfall of most great and powerful men were simply orchestrated by a devious woman! The creator of chess must have had these in mind before creating the game.


3. You can never win if you don't make a move

In Chess you have to make a move if you are to make any form of progress. In the beginning, white has to make the first move, before black. If white refuses to make the first move, then there would be no game. And no game means no action and no forms of progress.

So it implies that of you want to succeed and make any form of progress in your life, you must make a move. You must use the resources you have and move/manipulate them to achieve your desired results. Failure to do anything will keep you trapped in the same situation.

You see many people pray all the time for God to bless them, but they don't make any moves towards what they want. They pray from January to December and nothing happens because I believe God is waiting for these guys to just make a move.

4. Attack is often the best form of defence

While playing chess, I have often found myself in dangerous positions when my opponent is launching very aggressive attacks on my side. The attacks are well sustained that oftentimes the first thought that comes to mind is to run back and defend my territory.

But experience taught me that the best way to defend is to also carry out strong attacks on your opponents side. When you learn to also launch deadly attacks instead of just defending, your opponent will have a hard time continuing his own attack because he has to attend to his own territory.

Don't always be defensive in life. Don't always relax and wait for things to be given to you or just happen on its own accord. You should learn to attack. Make plans and carry them out. You will stand a better chance of surviving when you attack sometimes in response than when you always crawl back to defend.

5. Consider or think about the future

Foresight is a lovely attribute of the mind that you learn from chess. In playing the game, you have to think of what your opponent is planning to do and also think up of various plans you can use to defeat your opponents.

You think about the future consequences of the move you want to make and how better or worse it will make your position. You're careful responding to your opponents move because you have to try and see the future moves they are planning.

In life, many of us have made terrible mistakes because we don't really think deeply about the actions we take presently.Chess teaches us to remember the future before making any moves in life.

6. Understand your situation or position

Chess teaches circumspection. The ability to consciously observe, understand and analyze your position very well before moving. If you don't understand your identity, situation and position in life. You may not really be able to achieve anything meaningful.

You must understand your situation and that begins with how you know yourself, your tribe, your history, your community, your race, your continent etc. When you have known this about yourself. You can then take time to learn about other people, cultures and beliefs.

Wherever you find yourself in life, take time to study and understand the environment. Get access to important information and always update your knowledge of what is happening around you. It is a key ingredient to living successfully.

7. Learn to recognize your opportunities, don't waste moves

Opportunities they say comes but once. Although on a chess board opportunities usually arise, it is important to take advantage of the opportunity that you are presently aware of rather than gambling with it. I have had opportunities of taking my opponents unguarded pawn and I usually did. It often proved sufficient to finally win in the end game.

So it is in life, sometimes we are too keen on the big opportunities that we lose sight of the opportunities that surround us every single day. And sometimes we are lucky enough to recognize these little opportunities, but yet we despise them and don't take advantage of it.

The truth is somebody else will take advantage of the opportunities you missed. And in chess, it's your opponent. So it's important you learn to quickly recognize and make good use of opportunities that come your way whether on a chessboard or in real life.

8. Time is one of the most valuable resources

Is there any other game that could better teach you the precious value of your time? Chess is a game that greatly valued time. Once your time is up in chess, no matter how good your position may be, you will inevitably lose the game.

It teaches you how best to manage your time and make the most use of it. We all believe that our timeline on this planet is limited. And every second counts. So wasting time is usually not good. Time is meant to be managed and used well.

9. Luck always favors the good planners

Chess isn't really a game that we say is dependent on luck, just as in rolling a dice. Chess is a game of strategy and tactics and luck has a little role to play here because, whatever happens on the board was created by your moves.

When you are a good player(one who is thoughtful, careful, resilient and determined), you will always be lucky. You won't be lucky in the sense that luck just happens. You will be lucky because you created your luck by playing very well from the beginning.

And that's it: 9 Life lessons from the chess game. Have you played chess? Do you have other life lessons from the board that you can add? You can leave a comment or share the post.

source: https://www.boldwinner.com

iyasco90:
A wonderful insight. Tetris is one of my favourite games

Thank you

IamPlato:
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This Is Beautiful...


I Like It When People Bring Out Intelligent Messages From what Others Have Over Looked

Thank you IamPlato




I believe most of you already know the game of Tetris. It is usually a default game in most Java phones and early old games. If you don't know about the game of Tetris, a quick Google Search would better enlighten you. But here's a brief description of the game:


Tetris is a tile-matching puzzle video game, originally designed and programmed by Russian game designer Alexey Pajitnov. The Tetris® game requires players to strategically rotate, move, and drop a procession of Tetriminos(four tile block structure) that fall into the rectangular Matrix at increasing speeds. Players attempt to clear as many lines as possible by completing horizontal rows of blocks without empty space, but if the Tetriminos surpass the Skyline the game is over!


In simplest terms, the game of Tetris is about arranging falling shapes into horizontal lines which disappear once completed. You could turn these falling shapes or move the left or right. But you can't change the falling shape.


I have played and grown up with this game many years ago, however when I played it recently, my eyes were somehow opened to deep insights and I came to spot many life lessons from it. So here are the life lessons I learnt playing the game of Tetris..


1. Make the best out of whatever you're given.

In Tetris, Tetriminos fall from above. They're come in different structures. It could be a straight line, square, L-shaped or cross like shape. You have no control over the falling shapes you're given, but you have control over where to place it and its orientation.


This reminds me of the phrases: "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade," "You may have no control over circumstances, but you have control over how you react to them," and "We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails."


In life, we have no control over what we are given. You have been born into a country you didn't choose. You have wealthy, poor or average parents which you didn't choose. You didn't choose the way you look, your complexion, height or natural talents. You were given these things naturally. 


The successful outcome of your life is greatly dependent on how well you choose to use these these things you were given which you didn't choose.


Many people fail because they spend a better part of their life rejecting and hating on what they were given. Instead of making any progress with the little they have been given wherever they find themselves, they keep comparing themselves with others and they never see anything good about themselves or their situations.


You see, we are all created equal. And wherever you have found yourself and whatever gifts you possess is exactly linked to your path to success. There's a reason why you have been positioned and gifted in that manner. 


It is by using these things you have for good that you find out the real reason why you were placed there.

Tetriminos will keep falling from the sky without you choosing them. That's how life is. You don't get to choose certain things. But the little you are allowed to choose, make the best use of it.


2. You may not always get what you want

This is an unforgettable lesson. While playing the game, you may tend to expect or wish for certain kind of shapes which will easily suit the arrangements you are making. However, you may not necessary be getting those.


As a matter of fact, you might suddenly be getting all other shapes except the exact one you really desire. What do you do? Do you quit? You just have to make use of what you're getting to build what you want.


So it is in life. In life, we wish for many things. Even when we get some of those things, we desire for more. Leading economists have argued that man's wants are insatiable. We always desire. However, if we are to keep our sanity and mental health, we must understand that we may not always get the exact things we desire.


If your life is structured in such a way that you cannot do without getting exactly what you expect, then failure is inevitable. To succeed like a bold winner, you must understand that things may not always go as planned and you must make counter arrangements just in case it doesn't go as you planned.


This is not lack of faith. It is simply preparedness for any outcome.

This understanding leads me to the next lesson:


3. Plan for the unexpected

In the Tetris game, you have to plan for the unexpected kind of shapes. While arranging blocks, you must try to make room for any kind of shapes which could show up so that you won't be in for unpleasant surprises.


If you fail to do this and you're always expecting the game to give you an expected shape, it won't be too long before you lose. And you will be unable to do anything because you didn't plan for anything else than what you expected. Don't be that incapacitated person.


That's how it is in our lives. Life is a much more bigger game with so many uncertainties and possibilities. Never in the history of our world has there been a time when serious planning is of such high priority.


We must learn to plan for the unexpected. You can't really prepare for everything, but you can prepare to a good extent for a number of outcomes in your endeavors.

Learn to stop putting all your eggs in one basket. If you're applying to one job and you've gotten invited for a test or interview, don't stop applying to others until that one is certain to have worked out.


You have very important files you can't afford to lose on your phone, don't gamble with it. Anything can happen. So if the files are so important, copy them to a laptop, hard drive or an email. It doesn't mean you believe any bad thing will happen. You're only getting prepared. What if a virus attacks the phone's operating system?

You must plan for the unexpected in life. That's the way to sail through. 


4. Time is precious. Don't waste it thinking, take action!

When you get to some levels in the game, the speed of falling Tetriminos(blocks) will increase. You will now have to think faster as they show up to find out the best place to place them in your building.


Here time becomes of the essence because if you take too long to think, the block will fall and land anywhere which could potentially ruin what you're building. So you have to think fast and direct it fast enough.


Here we see the importance of being time conscious and not thinking too much.

Thinking too much could lead to a disaster because you lose the time which you could've acted upon.


In life, there are situations that require us to act well in a limited period of time. The situations could range from your relationships, career, education, business or even your lifestyle.


You must understand the time involved in any of those situations and know how quickly you should come up with a solution and carry it through.

Many people have missed lots of opportunities in their lives because they didn't utilize their time well. Some people wasted their youthful years, the best time they may have used to develop themselves for opportunities in the future and they end up regretting it. Would you rather be found regretting?


Someone said that "time is money." I believe he said it because he understands many people place so much value on money, but fail to see the value in time! In some cases, you should spend money to buy you some precious time! Take your time seriously.


5. No matter how bad the situation looks, you can conquer it if you don't lose hope.

While playing Tetris, Sometimes I built a total disaster. The blocks lie around with poor arrangement and it's very difficult to see how I can rearrange everything to clear up the mess. But sometimes it happens.

I bounce back from a seemingly hopeless position to a very good position! How? It's hope and conscious action.


One thing I found out that put me in bad positions while playing Tetris is not concentrating. I may be talking to someone, trying to listen to news or warm up food. And then I start stacking up rubbish.


But when I suddenly become conscious of what I'm doing and play with focus, I bounce back to a better position.


In life, some of us find ourselves in bad positions because of the mistakes we made in the past. These mistakes could be as a result of our lack of concentration or ignorance. Whatever the cause, we must not lose hope.


One thing that could take you from a bad situation to a better one is your consciousness. You must suddenly become very conscious of exactly why you've been in that bad situation. And also be very conscious of what you have to do to turn it around. A religious life could help you build this type of consciousness.


It is that consciousness that will help you become much more careful with your actions and see the opportunities that surround you.

Many people can't see opportunities passing them by everyday because they are simply not conscious of it.

No matter how bad your situation looks, don't lose hope. Channel your focused consciousness on it.


6. To succeed, you must learn to build

The game of Tetris is similar to laying bricks as in building a house. The saying goes, "As you lay your bed, so will you lie on it." Building is conscious activity. You don't build anyhow. It takes planning, foresight and intelligent arrangement. It is when you build with these qualities that you become successful in whatever you're building.

If you play Tetris without building well in an arranged manner, you'll lose very quickly.


In life, we have to build. We are constantly being given something in our lives. It could be in the form of skills, abilities and etcetera.

If we do nothing with these things we are given or we despise them, we will lose and end up with nothing but bitterness.


Building is the way to live! If you build with the things you've been given, no matter how little you think it may seem, you will experience success in your life and you'll be surprised at how doors of greater opportunities will be opened to you.


The key to your success in life is building with what you're given. Hating what you're given and refusing to build will only make you fail quicker than anybody else. Love what you have been given and build with it. Trust me, you'll be grateful.


So those are the insights I gained from playing Tetris again after many years. If you're inspired by it, share with at least one person.



Stay sharp and keep winning!

Until next time,

Nigel.


original source: https://www.boldwinner.com/2018/05/6-life-lessons-from-playing-tetris.html

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