Being Beach Ready Vs. Life Ready
“Your body has to be in top condition. Your chess deteriorates
as your body does. You can’t separate body from mind.”
-Bobby Fischer
This is the season when advertisers try to ‘guilt’ us into
buying their products and services for being ‘beach ready’.
And in the UK and Ireland there has been a backlash
to some of the new ads.
Maybe we should be looking more at being ‘Life-Ready’?
I find it fascinating that someone like Bobby Fischer would
say something like the above quote. In case you don’t know, he
was an American chess prodigy and many consider him the
greatest chess player of all time.
Chess at the highest levels demands huge mental capacity.
Yet here he emphasises the critical importance of the physical,
because you ‘can’t separate body from mind.’
