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 …
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 …
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 …
Lightbulb Moment #13 – Defining your workload
With so much else going on around the world, from the unrest in North Africa to the recovery efforts in Japan, I know there are bigger fish to fry. But there’s something I’d like to address while it’s still fresh on my mind.
Due to a somewhat unlikely confluence of …
Lightbulb Moment #12 – ‘How I changed the world today’
News of celebrity donations and fundraising efforts in response to the catastrophes in Japan have been steadily reported over the last few days, including a $1 million donation made by the ever-graceful Sandra Bullock. These various accounts prompted my recollection of a blog I randomly encountered several weeks ago …
Lightbulb Moment #11 – The power of self-regulation
When I first read about the stunning absence of looting activity following the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan, my curiosity was instantly piqued. And despite its seemingly aberrant nature, I figured that I would be able to quickly identify the causal factors without too much effort. However, …
Lightbulb Moment #10 – Desensitizing ourselves
A few days ago, I read an article at CNN.com about a White House-supported initiative by Facebook to protect teens and younger children from bullying. The basic idea is that a tool will be made available to users by which they can report “troubling content” to people of authority, …
Lightbulb Moment #9 – The role of a parent
I have a few different friends who’ve been struggling for the last year or so with the increasing disobedience of their teenage children. No matter how much my friends yell at, punish, or otherwise try to control their teens, they absolutely refuse to listen. Now, I know that …
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