the purpose of optimism

[Dankie]

optimists live longer, true study, google it

[jediandimaster]

mindset can work as a self-fullfilling-prophecy
example:
you think you got no skills in technical stuff. this leads to situations where you avoid to get skilled in technical stuff (your computer got a defect-you call your brother to let him repair it etc.)
5years later you really got no skills at all in technical stuff.

example:
you see a girl in a bar, want to flirt with her but your pessimistic mentality is telling you that she will not be in the mood to flirt with you. however , you are trying to flirt with her. but you will do it in a way that is not fun for her and you cause you are building resistance out of nothing. so the effect will be that she is really not in the mood to flirt with you.

how is this affecting your poker?
example:
you think you are always getting sucked out when you hold aces. so you dont raise the flop aggressive cause you will loose probably anyway to some donk holding 63off not respecting your raise. because of your lack of aggressiveness someone got a greater chance to break your aces.

[OGS20]

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Just play and have fun, yet play well. The money will follow.

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Also, a good book on the value of optimism:

http://www.amazon.com/Learned-Optimism-C...7557&sr=8-1

[PLOlover]

how can u apply aejones theroum if you aint optomist?

[Robmaf]

If you want to know something very interesting about optimism I recommend "The Secret". This is an amazing movie about our thoughts.
Men becomes what he thinks about. Any aim, any dream before completing was an image in your mind. Positive thinking is extremely important not just in real life but also in poker. You need to belive you are able to win. Truly beliving in yourself, beliving you deserve hapiness and success.

[Pog0]

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If you want to know something very interesting about optimism I recommend "The Secret". This is an amazing movie about our thoughts.
Men becomes what he thinks about. Any aim, any dream before completing was an image in your mind. Positive thinking is extremely important not just in real life but also in poker. You need to belive you are able to win. Truly beliving in yourself, beliving you deserve hapiness and success.

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If you want to know something very interesting about optimism I recommend "Scientology". As it turns out, your negative thoughts are actually a result of Body Thetans attaching themselves to our bodies...

I've got a bit of a problem with things like "The Secret" and "The Power of Now". These are products (a movie and a book respectively) that encourage you to rapidly change your complete outlook on life. But when the novelty wears out, you realize that you've stepped into a whole new world of science fiction where you "tell the universe what you want, visualize it, and receive it". Can you really believe that just by visualizing an empty parking spot right by the entrance of a crowded mall, you can make it so? Then it's just a matter of who's memory is selective enough to convince themselves that it all works.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for optimism. Pessimism and depression are probably not too far apart and then you lose your aspirations and you're just generally not as happy in life. But these rapid "no, this is the way you're actually supposed to live your life!" books and movies that seem to come out all the time now aren't the best way to get there. Any book on setting goals and time management is far superior to anything that just spouts optimism as the solution to all of life's problems.

[Henry17]

The sales figures for The Secret just confirmed my belief that humanity is becoming dumber with each subsequent generation.

[pshady]

its negative beliefs like yours which is why that's happening

look at what your manifest is doing

[Shizzle12345]

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The sales figures for The Secret just confirmed my belief that humanity is becoming dumber with each subsequent generation.

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Do you know why pple pay thousands of dollars for these pick up artist seminars? People are lazy, and i mean not physically lazy, but mentally. They dont want to figure stuff out themselves, they want to have it fed to them in a big spoon. The same with 'the secret'. Instead of figuring out what they really want and chasing theyr dreams, they hear about the secret and think, yay now i can achieve great things and be happy in live if i buy that.

[6471849653]

Pessimism is losing without a fight. Optimism is missing pessimistic factors and makes mistakes because of that. Pessimism has no life in it. Optimism is not the reality, just life. There is a balance in-between, and it's not hard to see that optimism should be the master and the pessimism the slave.