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Message: [QUOTE="punctual, post: 2401116, member: 105248"] He just has a very negative outlook on life. Saying that no matter how much you study and perfect your game in poker you will never be a Phil Ivey. If Phil Ivey were God then I might agree. But I don't believe there is any limit to how far I personally can go in anything I choose to do. It is this kind of nonsense brainwashing that serves as the biggest obstacle to anyone wishing to accomplish anything in life. Think for a second about all the things you have accomplished in your own life that people have told you would be near impossible. Had you listened to these people, you would not have found success. I don't like negative people and I certainly do not like anyone telling me what I can or can not accomplish in my life. I especially look down upon ANYONE who will idolize another human being to such an extent as to essentially imply "this man is a god." I hold no man in such high esteem and fear no man at the poker table. It is for this reason I say that I wish my poker tables were filled with hundreds of Ed Millers: people with that mentality have lost the battle before it has even begun! In fact, it is probably that mentality that has kept him from progressing his own poker game. Just because he may have hit a proverbial brick wall in his poker development does not mean that he should spew that kind of nonsense upon others. I understand that this is the lens through which he views the world (i.e. from a loser's perspective) but I will not subscribe to that nonsense. I suppose this video hit such a nerve with me because new poker players may be impressionable enough to be brainwashed by nonsense like this. My advice to anyone willing to dedicate their lives to any particular art or profession: don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can not do it! [/QUOTE]

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