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Originally Posted by MMSS
You're in for a treat playing live poker for a living if you don't want to work with people.
You’re right. Social interaction wears me out a lot and it makes it harder to focus. But there are things such as trust, people not having similar standards so I end up pulling their weight, trouble delegating, lack of organization etc. that are very frustrating when working
with people. In comparison to around them.
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Originally Posted by ramabranch
That's the internet, you're gonna get **** thrown at you when you express yourself, is part of the deal.
I would take it as a sort of training for mental toughness. As you said on 6b thread how much you respected his way of dealing with trolls and criticism, you can use the attacks thrown at you as a way to deal with **** in the future in a better way (and there's a lot of **** coming your way in all shapes and forms if you want to be a poker pro).
Fair. I like the bolded as well.
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Originally Posted by wacker1913
If you cannot stand criticism in a public poker thread than you do not have the mental constitution to play poker.
Poker is at least 50% a mental game - most people fail because of mental issues not missing poker knowledge.
Poker is not chess - you dont have to have an IQ of 160 in poker (in chess this probably helps). You are way overestimating the way your chessbackground helps you...
You’re right, thanks for sharing
I would like to point out though that my belief in myself is less about chess=poker, or a high IQ, and more so about 10 years of consistent dedication towards my craft. Not many people who try to make it poker have gone through a similar grind previously with a different game. And succeeded.
That’s not even considering that any time I spent on chess was in addition to 40-50+ hours a week on school which has obviously always been a constant in my life. It won’t be for poker.
Also, I don’t think many people realize (maybe tiger can touch on this) that classical chess games take between 3-5 hours. Per game. So several years of going through 2 games a day of that should be beneficial towards the grind. In addition to a multitude of other things such as mental sharpness, analytical skills, patience, discipline, perseverance, etc. etc.
All that being said, I have a tremendous amount of weaknesses and things I need to improve on, especially socially, given how much of my life has been spent on school and chess.
And I do agree that I need to take criticism better and will work on that.
Last edited by RoadtoPro; 07-16-2020 at 07:12 AM.