OddsBeDamned
Seeking balance in a chaotic world
Lightbulb Moment #18 – ‘True focus’
Introduction
Over the course of my poker ‘career’, I’ve made countless adjustments in an effort to remain competitive at an ever-evolving game. I’ve shifted emphasis back and forth between tournaments and cash games, experimented with various combinations of looseness and aggression, and played extensively both live and online. But …
Measuring a day’s work: The HICTWT Coefficient
INTRODUCTION
A month ago, I took a closer look at the contexts from which I had been choosing my daily undertakings. At the end of the post, I concluded that the most effective way for me to personally evaluate a day’s work is from the broader perspective of ‘how I …
Lightbulb Moment #17 – Your Life as a Masterpiece
Back in 2008, Jean-Claude Van Damme made a brief comeback of sorts with the movie “JCVD“, a drama surrounding a character based loosely on Van Damme himself. As a whole, the movie was merely decent, in my opinion. But there is one very unexpected scene near the end …
Lightbulb Moment #16 – The anatomy of an insult
Introduction
Have you ever given much thought to exactly what it is that happens when someone offends you? I mean really broken it down and considered what transpires, one step at a time?
When I think about all the times I’ve felt insulted in the past, the pattern has generally resembled …
Lightbulb Moment #15 – Defining a ‘good’ life
In a poker tournament, each player is allotted the same number of chips at the start. Once the tournament begins, you then play one poker hand after another, trying to increase your chip stack whenever possible. This continues until you are either crowned the winner or eliminated by …
A letter to Richard Simmons
Rather than simply voicing my concerns about America’s emotionally underdeveloped society in an article on my blog, I decided it would be more effective to take my message directly to the article’s subject. So I submitted a message to Richard Simmons through his website, contents below. Yeah, I …
Accepting responsibility for your emotions – Exhibit A
The other day, I mentioned a Facebook initiative intended to protect children from bullying and how I felt that its efforts to modify the behavior of the bullies rather than the victims would ultimately prove ineffective. Well, the recent response to a joke made by George Lopez about Kirstie …
Lightbulb Moment #14 – Dragging your fears into the light
Introduction
There’s a popular saying in poker that “scared money doesn’t make money”. What it basically means is that if you’re preoccupied with the prospect of losing the money you’re playing with, you’ll often be too gun-shy to follow through on some of the riskier moves available to you, even …
Present-mindedness: a means to an end
I have a friend who was waiting for a very important phone call yesterday and was having trouble overcoming the anxiety of not knowing when the call would come. We share ideas about overcoming our daily obstacles somewhat frequently, so she asked me if I had any tips to …
Anger management as the norm
On the heels of singer Chris Brown’s latest temper tantrum on the set of Good Morning America, I’m left wondering why it is that we don’t bother to teach anger management skills until after the damage has already been done. Fortunately, the only thing harmed this time was a …
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