Nice quote about tilting and emotional fortitude follows. It's lifted from twoplustwo.com which lifted it from a Card Player mag article (allegedly)
"This leads us to the ironic fact that the biggest factor in most losing players' inablility to win is, quite simply, their inability to lose-that is to say, their emotional inability to successfully process losing. Like it or not, it's virtually impossible to be a consistent winner without a firm understanding of the hows and whys of losing, a process that involves identifying its many forms and causes and anticipating their occurence.
This is vitally impotant, because if you can't differentiate between garden variety "form losses" and the truly brutal beats, your vision of reality will be skewed and you'll respond to perfectly normal statistical events by casting yourself in the role of victim. it's precisely the sort of denial manifested in exchanges cited above, in which players literally turn away from the hands that beat them, refusing to see any legitimate value that would contradict their personal myth of unluckiness. If you have this tendency-if you're more concerned with confirming your script of woe than processing information that's right in front of you-perspective will continue to elude you and you'll never come to grips with the fact that the emotional challenges eating you up are the very same challenges everyone else at the table has to confront as well.
Unfortunately, for many people this democratic truth is a very unsettling idea, suggesting as it does that the difference between winners and losers is not merely the endless run of bad luck to which the latter continually attribute their loses, but that the game involves emotional challenges and discipline for which their compettion may be better equipped than they are. And who wants to face the fact that their opponents are playing smarter and tougher-when it's emotonally convenient to believe they're just luckier
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"This leads us to the ironic fact that the biggest factor in most losing players' inablility to win is, quite simply, their inability to lose-that is to say, their emotional inability to successfully process losing. Like it or not, it's virtually impossible to be a consistent winner without a firm understanding of the hows and whys of losing, a process that involves identifying its many forms and causes and anticipating their occurence.
This is vitally impotant, because if you can't differentiate between garden variety "form losses" and the truly brutal beats, your vision of reality will be skewed and you'll respond to perfectly normal statistical events by casting yourself in the role of victim. it's precisely the sort of denial manifested in exchanges cited above, in which players literally turn away from the hands that beat them, refusing to see any legitimate value that would contradict their personal myth of unluckiness. If you have this tendency-if you're more concerned with confirming your script of woe than processing information that's right in front of you-perspective will continue to elude you and you'll never come to grips with the fact that the emotional challenges eating you up are the very same challenges everyone else at the table has to confront as well.
Unfortunately, for many people this democratic truth is a very unsettling idea, suggesting as it does that the difference between winners and losers is not merely the endless run of bad luck to which the latter continually attribute their loses, but that the game involves emotional challenges and discipline for which their compettion may be better equipped than they are. And who wants to face the fact that their opponents are playing smarter and tougher-when it's emotonally convenient to believe they're just luckier
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