As you get older, you realize more and more that true happiness is made up of calm mornings, a clean environment, going to bed early, a safe home, and people who don’t drain your energy…
Honestly, this is a terrible take.
Good luck to the guy executing ranging and thinking 3 steps ahead, but can't control his emotions and tilt.
Good luck executing all those strategies with poor bankroll management.
How can you rank something as the "9th" most important thing when all the fundamentals like:
- not tilting
- solid B/C Game
- knowing when to quit
- controlling emotions
- good bankrollmanagement
require a strong mindset. Which comes from a strong effort to invest in yourself, to work on your mindset, and not see it as the "9th" most important thing.
Whether it is through meditation, journaling, or visualisation.
"Ranging and thinking 3 steps ahead" won't work when any of those are not at least solid,
These days, our problem is not working enough on our mindset; it is the opposite. Just sometimes to sit the fuck down, turn off your devices, journal, reflect, discover yourself.
The absolute fundamentals of playing a winning poker strategy come from having a solid mindset: patience, discipline, consistency, and perspective.
Of course, there are certainly some people who spend way too much time on "journaling" or whatever. But that's the exception.
This post gives the impression that most people are spending too much time working on their mindset.
Calling "mindset" a shiny object is not just terrible advice; it will also do more harm to the majority who, in fact, need to spend more time improving their mindset.
Those people reading this kind of advice will keep them on their path towards losing "ahh he said mindset is shiny, so my tilt is not the issue, just gotta learn new strategies and play more".
I am not sure why people have to put out these terrible takes. Do they really believe it, or is it to rage-bait?
Executing any strategy with a negative mindset is impossible.
But with a solid mindset, you can learn and execute any strategies you wish.
Trying to twist this is absolutely terrible advice.
Be smart, invest in yourself, improve your mindset, and it will make everything else so much easier.
Of course, one still needs to sit down, put in the reps, study the game, learn the exploits, and execute. Rinse and repeat. Don't ignore that either.
But from my experience, people need to spend more time on the mindset side than on the opposite.
Strong weekend champs.