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Message: [QUOTE="cardmaker, post: 3262873, member: 166369"] 1) How to handle having money - its said most winners of the lottery lose it FAST, and ou see that every day in poker so learn over time to not be that guy. In life, when people say "it will cost you fifty bucks more just cuz I don't like you", you don't just grumble and pay, you laugh and say "what a stupid strategy that is, trying to steal the blinds when you have any two cards, no way you can withstand a reraise" or you fold and move on. Point being, you don't just get sucked out on in life by default, you play defence. 2) Risk - Everything is a gamble; walking down the street and not having a shark land on your head from a freak tornado, is a gamble. While oordinaryy peoplle walk around in life thinking everything is by default safe, you think back to that one in ten thousand badbeat you had, and know its a possibility. You learn to trust your gut on outcomes even if it flies in the face of logic. You also learn to make logical choices on the whole even with only a mild 5% edge etc and to watch for changes in fortune carefully. 3) You learn how to SPEND - You can't make an ommelate without breaking a few eggs right? But you also go bankrupt chasing a badbeat. In poker you figure out that both things are true and how to manage it. I can spend thousands of dollars, and lose it, but be ok because it was intelligently spent, or I can spend 5 dollars spend it poorly and feel terrible... why? Poker isn't a game of the short term, you learn the value of long term expenditures of effort and money to pull off a great result. And you learn to track those results ever more honestly and earnestly so as not to cheat ourself out of real joy or real responsibility. 4) Business competition - I think a lot of my business competitors are evil. One guy got away with beating his girlfriends for years, another has dark dealings with corruption, another ends up abusing people in third world countries. I want to scream sometimes! And I want to rip their balls off by out competing them into the dirt. In poker, people aren't bad people, but they often dwell in insidious and nasty mental spaces to mischieviously topple you. I often play out the frustration I have in business but less intense, and easier to get over, so its like a boxing bag, I get out my stress, I learn to keep composed, and I learn to outcompete while staring down the barrel of a gun every day. Its a gift for us all to in good spirits share that evil :P because some things in life are much more so, and its good to have a strong stomach for it and not freak out. 5) Style - Money from business is always heavy. Gotta think of all the workers, yadda yadda yadda. But I win in poker, and its nice and light, I spend it on stuff for ME, and helps me live more dynamic and so on, giving me more satisfaction. Lol, I guess it even stimulates the economy :P 6) Acceptance of the unexpected - Everyone has a prejudice against poker... at first. Thhinking its gambling, outrageous etc. But look around you, people are taking illogical and stupid risks with everything, poker is facing the uncertainty of life and in that way being able to be realistic about it. I play because it is the pragmatic choice, and prejudice is NOT pragmatic its just ill informed. So you learn to try to be less prejudiced about things you know nothing about. I got all of that from poker. And without it, I'd be a worse businessman, I'd be financially frustrated, and I'd get angry in situations where simple poker strategies will suffice to get through the struggle. It made me more resilient, more powerful, and more clear minded/zen. How fn awesome is that? Its pretty darn awesome! And thats why I smile sitting down at the table. Cuz its made me better, so I embrace it as part of who I am. And I dare my opponents to shake me out of it, cuz heck yeah, I love this stuff. You wrestle with this pig and you'll get dirty, and I love that feeling. We all do ;) [/QUOTE]

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