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Epiphany time
LadyFingrs
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Taken from tommy angelo's "The eightfold path to Poker Enlightenment" Video series on DeucesCracked
"All of my good streaks and all of my bad streaks of every legnth and depth have had one thing in common. They did not exist in your mind. They only existed in my mind. And this is true for everyones winning and losing streaks. None of them actually exist. They are all mental fabrication, like past and future. Everything that ever happens, happens in the present tense. But how can you have a streak in the present tense?
You can't. And therefore, if you are in the present tense, which, in fact, at this time, you are, then at this moment there is no streak in your life. There is no inherent existance to streaks. The streak is there when you think about it, and when you stop thinking about it, it goes away. It blossoms and withers, all in your mind. And when your mind invents a streak, you believe it exists, because you believe what your mind tells you. but the truth is there is only the hand you are playing"
"All of my good streaks and all of my bad streaks of every legnth and depth have had one thing in common. They did not exist in your mind. They only existed in my mind. And this is true for everyones winning and losing streaks. None of them actually exist. They are all mental fabrication, like past and future. Everything that ever happens, happens in the present tense. But how can you have a streak in the present tense?
You can't. And therefore, if you are in the present tense, which, in fact, at this time, you are, then at this moment there is no streak in your life. There is no inherent existance to streaks. The streak is there when you think about it, and when you stop thinking about it, it goes away. It blossoms and withers, all in your mind. And when your mind invents a streak, you believe it exists, because you believe what your mind tells you. but the truth is there is only the hand you are playing"
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They will say, wow, he is running hot, and I will say , no, he has been running hot. Or when one seat in the casino has seemed to be getting all the hands, they call it the hot seat and they want to be there etc. Wrong, it has abeen a hot seat up too this point.
Its a fine line between this type of thinking and superstition imo, and I am 0% superstitious.