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Originally Posted by FellaGaga-52
It's a trip, life is, and all pursuits within it ... .... good and bad, sometimes very good or very bad. A good takeaway is "this is my life right now, and all things in life are a teacher, especially the bad/hard/painful things." Something i was reading today applies: "The Kybalion." It emphasizes this big picture versus little picture thing. The little picture is you are experiencing losing, bad luck, adversity in poker. The big picture is, "this is my life, affliction is a teacher, a better teacher than easy sailing, life is not about poker, etc." Easier said than done but by the time you've been doing it for 40 years, you'll be saying, "Ah so. I was escaping the key things in life via poker. In a way it's good if that doesn't work." Life, The Kybalion seems to say, is about toggling back and forth between these two perspectives, big picture little picture, immediate and spiritual, quotidian and full journey. This only helps way down the road. Right now, a losing streak is a losing streak. Within the limited system, that's bad, negative, painful, frustrating as hell, and importantly so. Within the big picture, it is close to zero out of a hundred in terms of salience. If I hadn't read that today you wouldn't have had to hear this. I love the title of the thread. Entitlement is a cancer; gratitude is a spiritual thing. I once posed those very two as dead opposites in a philosophy class and got some love from the professor. I very much had entitlement in gambling. It's not coming from a good place. Sometimes you can't get out of these streaks. The streak is the streak is the streak. It becomes like a medicine more than a curse, administered by a wise and powerful force called Jungian teleology, of one is so inclined to play that game of life as assiduously as the game of cards.
Thanks for your post, and i do believe that poker has a greater purpose in the grand scheme of things, just need to work on being conscious of my thoughts and emotions whenever a beat happens and overcome/defeat the urge to have those overwhelming thoughts on the other side of the spectrum.
This sounds like a dumb idea but ill try and log every session and give myself 3 opportunities in the session to be aware and overcome... if i can't i walk away and call it a win. No matter even if i've only been playing for 5 minutes, and each session i don't tilt/let my mind focus on all the negative **** thats happened in the past/have gratitude etc. ill mark the session as a success even though the perfectionist in me wants to only mark it as a success if i don't choke/panic in spots or if i knew the strat and took all the most profitable lines/decisions
^obv the downside is it's going to be hard to churn out hours especially if i walk away from a good game (which always happens) any advice here?
...but again the focus is on perspective/my thoughts and forgiving myself even if i dont want to, i need to embrace this adversity also because i know itll translate to my life outside off the felt,
poker has a purpose more then exploiting ppl/strats and winning money ill follow that belief until i die i just know it and maybe ill find salvation or break the cycle of samsara by playing poker who knows (im kidding?)
Last edited by Ectomorph18; 10-04-2021 at 12:48 AM.