When life puts you in a situation you did not choose – a loss, a betrayal, a decision with no good outcome in sight – the first impulse is almost always the wrong move.

This book sets out a method in three parts and eighteen chapters: analyze adversity before responding to it. Chess supplies the language. The board is your situation. The pieces are the resources you actually have. And every move is a decision with consequences.

What you will find in this volume:

54 fully worked cases – from the first analysis through to the decision

54 psychological techniques, each with an application card for immediate use

18 practice sheets for your own work

Psychology with cited sources, lived everyday experience and spirituality are kept clearly apart. At any point you know where a statement comes from and how much weight it carries.

This is not a book about positive thinking. It is a book about seeing clearly before you act.

First volume of the series "Look at the Board".