Sometimes articles that seem to have nothing to do with a topic we focus on here at PGM — GAMES — bring some kind of tie-in. Billionaires and successful CEOs have extraordinary pattern recognition.
Want to improve your pattern recognition skills?
There are several ways to improve your pattern recognition skills. You can play games like chess and checkers, or simply practice collaborating with people who have different perspectives and insights.
Billionaire CEO: Successful people share pattern recognition skill (cnbc.com)
Since everybody reading this is dying to be a billionaire or CEO, or maybe just aspires to improve their pattern recognition skills because … well, here’s some places you can play chess and checkers.
Chess – the most popular place on the internet to play is chess.com. It’s a deep thinking game that I’ve never been that good at, but do enjoy playing it here and there (see: July 20 International Chess Day)
Some other chess-related sites include: Lichess, Chessables and ICC (high ranking players, a paid subscription required to play chess against others here).
Checkers – online checkers, 24-7 Checkers
Let us know in the comments area how the pattern recognition improvement is going?