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[Burlap]

Cardo,

Eventually the voice in your head will shut the F' up. But only after it realizes that you're no longer listening. Until then it will continue to be right. You can argue with it all you want, but it will always win. Because it is you. And only when you change, will the voice change. And the only way to do that is by ignoring it. And once you finally learn to do that, you will look back and see that it was wrong all along. Argue for your limitations, and they're yours.

Examine carefuly the following two paragraphs. The first was writen by aba. The other, some random loser.
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yes I am working on my HU game. It needs another 6 months tho before I am ready for that.

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It's not fear. It's just knowing how things will turn out to a high degree of accuracy. I very usually know within five minutes of watching a Mavericks game who will win. I know within the first three touches of a fencing bout whether I will win or lose. I know within fifteen minutes of meeting a girl whether she'll shoot me down or not.

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Do you think aba got to where he is by reading Shakespear and arguing on the internet all day long?

Studying and learning poker concepts train your mind to recognize specific situations so that you respond accordingly with the most +EV play. The more effort you put into studying and thinking about the game ---> the more knowledge you'll ingrain into your subconcious mind ---> the more situatations you will be able to recognize. Pretty simple stuff obv. The same appplies for recognizing certain situations in life and acting appropriately. It's got nothing to do with envisioning fluffy bunnies, and all to do with reconditioning the ways you act and react. Its not about gay positive affirmations, so stop thinking Saturday Night Live. It's about reprograming your brain so you behave like a sane human being.

How you act is who you become. Period.You want to be an optimistic, enthusiastic person? Act like an optimistic, enthusiastic person. The corrisponding feelings come along afterword, not beforehand. This of course sounds way to ridiculous, unappealing, and embarassing for most people to even consider, which is why hardly anyone ever changes. Act as though there's a reason for living, and lo and behold, one will present itself. It may well be fun to be the current laughing stock of 2+2. But as soon as this thread dies down, you will return to hell.

It's of great difficulty to properly articulate these concepts to people who are otherwise ignorant. All of what I'm writing means very little to you now because you don't yet have the capacity to understand it. You can read what I've written, you can ponder it, you can form an opinion about it, and you can debate it. But you can't understand it. Because "understanding" is simply an arrangement of molecules in your brain that you build through repetition. You haven't built that particular arrangement yet, so you can't understand it.

Before you began to play poker, did you understand it? Before you began fencing, did you understand it?

You will never understand anything before you begin it. Only after repetition of thought and action does understanding come along.

Understand?

This is why you should never dismiss anything out of hand before you take the time to properly understand it.

Everything that ever was, and everything that every will be. From a tiny grain of sand, to the vast emptiness of space. From that chair that you're sitting in, to the monitor you're staring at – Do not. Have not. And never will exist. Except within the confines of that tiny, tangled mess of circuitry you carry around called your brain. You can never escape the matrix because the matrix is your mind.

Now explain to me again why you can't take control of three pounds of rubbery meat.

Be humble and stop thinking you're so great. Only by doing so will you be able to do great things.You love writing? Start writing a book. Write one page a week for the next 300 weeks. Can't think of anything to write about? Begin writing about the time you went from being a complete madman to a best-selling author. It'll be a work in progress. The first few chapters would be rambling gibberish and would slowly evolve into a work of genius.

[El Diablo]

Cardo,

"I've met Mike Schneider. In person, he strikes me as a nice-enough Midwestern kid with a very amusing accent who lags it up preflop, runs good, and doesn't have much to say. This is obviously a very impoverished picture of Mike Schneider, but in short there's nothing about him that immediately strikes me as creating the difference between him, a millionaire from cards, and me, some nothing grinder on the verge of extinction. Yet there must be something, likely many things, because here we are. I mean, he's laggier. He posts a lot of hand where he calls down with K-high. He checkraises the turn with air with 'perfect frequency,' in his own words, and his belief in his own abilities seems absolute."

You wrote that (emphasis mine) in the EDF thread linked above.

Do you still feel that way?

[Anacardo]

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Cardo,

"I've met Mike Schneider. In person, he strikes me as a nice-enough Midwestern kid with a very amusing accent who lags it up preflop, runs good, and doesn't have much to say. This is obviously a very impoverished picture of Mike Schneider, but in short there's nothing about him that immediately strikes me as creating the difference between him, a millionaire from cards, and me, some nothing grinder on the verge of extinction. Yet there must be something, likely many things, because here we are. I mean, he's laggier. He posts a lot of hand where he calls down with K-high. He checkraises the turn with air with 'perfect frequency,' in his own words, and his belief in his own abilities seems absolute."

You wrote that (emphasis mine) in the EDF thread linked above.

Do you still feel that way?

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I have to say that, having read the bolded portion, then read all the text around it which completely contradicts the bolded portion, no, I don't feel that way, because the preceding and subsequent sentences give all kinds of reasons, and that's just a start! I also wonder who wrote this, as they clearly weren't thinking or writing very clearly.

[El Diablo]

Cardo,

Have you looked into any job possibilities at fencing clubs?

[Anacardo]

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Cardo,

Have you looked into any job possibilities at fencing clubs?

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No, I have not.

[El Diablo]

Cardo,

You have stated repeatedly that you enjoy fencing. I suggest you pursue opportunities related to fencing. By this I mean actually trying, not closing the door by figuring out for yourself why it won't work out without even giving it a real shot. If you try and they tell you there's nothing available, make them an offer they can't refuse and go from there.

[fifield]

You're a Virgo, aren't you? Knew it. Probably an INTJ, too. You're not unique, bro, just a character in a play written long ago.
It's all in the stars...and Jungian type-analysis.

[Anacardo]

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You're a Virgo, aren't you? Knew it. Probably an INTJ, too. You're not unique, bro, just a character in a play written long ago.
It's all in the stars...and Jungian type-analysis.

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I am a Virgo and an IN(t/f)P. The former is of absolutely no consequence whatsoever, but the latter can be quite interesting!

[Blarg]

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Cardo ... genius.

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Much good stuff. I especially liked:

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Argue for your limitations, and they're yours.

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and

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How you act is who you become.

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[2/325Falcon]

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