Congrats on your book becoming a textbook!

Thanks! (Funny enough I was just coming here to make a post about it.) I never would have thought the book would be used in college classrooms, but getting validation from a professor is an awesome feeling.

For anyone else interested, here's a blog I wrote yesterday about it: http://jaredtendlerpoker.com/mental-...lege-textbook/

Pm'ed!

This post really described me, almost every year i find a new thing that i want to master and i'm always motivated during the initial phase of learning, when i'm passing from Unconscious Incompetence to Conscious Competence, but when my learning curve starts to reach a plateau and i see how much hard work is need to master that skill, i give up and look for something "easier" to restart the cycle.

The problem is that the feeling of being mediocre in everything really depresses me, but reading your book I realized that it is possible to change this situation.

I guess the first thing I need to do is to set more realistic and process-oriented goals to motivate me during the hard times, am I right?

It is possible to set goals to several activities at the same time or in this first moment i really need to choose one activity to work hard and treat the others like hobbies? If you can add more about this i would really appreciate it.

Thank you for your book, I now feel that if I take it seriously and work hard I can change habits I once thought were impossible to change.

i wonder how much a book in canada it cost for shipping , for B stock ( small error on cover)?

"I guess the first thing I need to do is to set more realistic and process-oriented goals to motivate me during the hard times, am I right?" Yes, but you also need to understand why you want to achieve the end goal. It's the why that takes the source of your motivation a little deeper. So, when you hit hard times and you have to "dig deep" you already know what's there. When someone digs deep, they're looking for a reminder for why they are going after their goals. Why it's important. What it means for their life, or for poker. Etc.

Point is, figure it out now. Then, when you hit hard times, Inject your goals/why you want your goals, into these hard times in exactly the same way you'd Inject Logic.

I wrote a series of blogs about achieving goals/resolutions last year, a lot more in there as well: http://jaredtendlerpoker.com/blog/ma...lutions-stick/

To your other question, funny enough I was talking with a client yesterday about this exact subject. The answer is it depends on how serious you're taking these other activities. If you want to have two-part time jobs in a sense, then yes, you can set goals for more than one. If you have a full-time job and a small part-time one, then yes. If you have a primary full-time job, then I suggest just having goals here, and allow the other things to be hobbies. That doesn't mean you can't want to improve or do well with your hobbies - just that you're not a lot around these hobbies to improve actively. The main reason is rest. You need to be focused on training the skills needed for success in your primary job to the level of Unconscious Competence. You want to be doing that actively and don't want your energy taken too much away from that by other things. (You certainly can for short periods of time, but I don't recommend it over the long-term).

Makes sense? Help?

Yw! Great to hear you feel that way!

Unfortunately the B stock books are sold out for now. I'll make more available when I have them, but my latest shipment of books had none. If you're interested in regular priced book, shipping to CA via standard USPS shipping is $9.95 (8-15 business days) and $30 via FedEx Priority (2 business days).

ok ty
just tell us if other b-stock will come, hope not for u but dont mind for me
later

Loved the book.

Reminded me of a lot of the things my little league coaches used to tell me.

What the book did extremely well, for me, was codify a framework with which to strengthen my mental capacity.

Probably the best book I have read for... trading.

Sure, np

Trading! That's really cool. I've heard of a handful of other traders buying it too. What % of the book do you think applied to trading?

You had some good little league coaches...my were babysitters.

just got the book!

Excellent! Please let me know what it does for you game.

FYI: These are sold out for now. I'll make more available as they get them and let you all know then.

Do this. Make sure this happens. It would be huge. It's a huge market with very little science backed books.

Even though I was being successful with poker it was an idle hobby of mine to read self help books, mostly just the hugely popular ones because i wanted to see what people thought or were getting from them. I don't think many of them ever helped that much (aside from psycho-cybernetics, which i would say i've earned dollars i otherwise wouldn't have earned i not read this book) but it's really hard if not impossible to see cause and effect from this hobby. But I think a lot of what I read in your book became applicable to my general life and has added to it much more than any of the past best sellers of that field that i've read.

It now seems absurd to me that so many people are willing to work so hard and often for physical fitness to help their physical health but don't give much thought and thus no action to their mental health. Which IMO is equally important.