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[QUOTE="Joe, post: 6703817, member: 193663"]
Downswings are rough but from personal experience it's far better to take a break, analyse and study for a month or so rather than to grind through it and simply 'persevere'.

Firstly it's much easier to burnout or let it get to you when things aren't going your way.

Secondly yes, while there are occasions where we hit a serious pocket of negative variance and it really doesn't matter what you do everything will go wrong regardless, these are fairly rare and more often than not extended losses would imply that it is more than purely bad luck and in some way or other we need to address, correct or improve our game.

The key thing is that poker is dynamic and there is the old adage that it is [I]a journey[/I], not something that is ever 'mastered'.

So for me and my game for example, I think it's the kind of thing that is universal to some degree, it's very imperative that I am able to objectively and honestly identify and differentiate between when I have played correctly and been truly unfortunate or if I could have made better decisions, played differently or not played the hand at all.

When it comes to such matters outside perspectives can be extremely useful because we can be great at deceiving ourselves sometimes! Cognitive bias they call it... ;)
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