nice improve doorbread!

gl.

Thanks for the update, wp.

GL going forward!

Money doesn't make one a strong person. Strong becomes a person who overcomes difficulties. You became too early successful. Now you have become a lazy Ass, absored by your self. Live is not about money and 'success'. Go and wash the feet of some poor ppl for that you learn what is live about and what makes one really happy, it is not money and 'success'. Just imagine you own the whole world, at the end one can only buy a nice grave, nothing more.
When you do overcome this with poker and become successful again, the hole in your character will still remain. Money, success and even scicentists will never be able to protect one from bad luck. Hookers don't do it anyway.

Just read the whole stuff, probably like many others, because Galfond tweeted his reply last night. Great thread, actually made me think about myself and my life and what I could do to improve. I am very happy to read your last update, eventhough we've never even interacted in the forums, I felt a big sense of relief when reading how you are doing now. It's awesome.

I also feel very happy that you wrote that OP, and like jman said, seeing that others are having some problems maybe a bit similar to mines feels good in some weird way. So thanks for sharing, keep it up, you're on the right track.

Thank you.

Amazing piece of advice Phil!!! I think I speak for more than half the 2p2 community, when I say
Thanks for posting and helping the poker community out.

Hi DB,

I have been/still am in a quite similar situation to yours, except I am a 50nl player. Around 6 months ago, I was completely sick of everything, because at that time I was sick for 1 year (kissing disease), which resulted in being socially isolated sitting in front of my computer doing nothing, since I couldn't do all the stuff in life that I enjoyed. Think about: party, sports, meet up with friends, girls, holiday, poker (too tired) etc. I started taking some very big steps, and one of those things was therapy because I felt I couldn't sink any further/deeper. I started taking small steps with a lot of stuff in life (sport again a little bit, meet some friends, go out till 0:00 etc), and slowly building my life again. Only reason I am saying this, is to show that I know how you feel/felt.

So here comes my advice, that you might find a little bit strange, but this helped me the most for sure, even more than the all therapy and conversations I have had, and trust me, I felt really really really bad / depressive at a certain point.

Go into the pickup artist world.

You might think now ''but well, I don't want to get girls'', but that is absolutely not what it is about. It is about improving yourself as a person, which results in more success with women, but even if you don't care about that, it will still improve your life. Especially the writer of the famous book ''the game'', Neil Strauss, has been a huge inspiration for me. He did turn his life around for a full 100%, and also explains how to do it yourself, taking very small steps, writing down certain points you want to improve, updating them, and so on. If you are interested in it, just pm me your Skype, and I will introduce you to it. Trust me, it is very very good advice, and goes really deep. It is not as easy as ''write down goals, and do it''.

This is the first part of a really nice dvd series, that will help you a lot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfMBEQbpSDw

Wish you all the best man.

Also, I think this is the best read I have had in a long long time, especially to make me realize I am not the only one and to realize I made the right steps so far.

Being a pickup artist is not being a better person.

That is true, but what is your point? I mean, the road of becoming one, will improve your life for sure. Like you don't have to want to become one, but there is a lot of usefull information out there that you can use to become a better person. For being successfull with women, you need to have a good quality of life. For example, Style has the so called las vegas method, which stands for looks, adaptibility, strength, value, emotional connection, goals, authenticity and self worth, which stands for who you are. He also gives advice how to improve those things about yourself. Also he gives advice about what books to read to improve, for example ''find your hidden self'', which can definately help you improve. Also, there is the so called ''30 day challenge'', which helps you build a social life, with very small steps.

*My point is that it is not only about performing routines, what a lot of people might think.

Thanks for advice / post. Think anything that may be beneficial to confidence or just get me around more is goot at this point.

May post update soon