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 …
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 …
The sum knowledge of generations
A few days ago, I read this interesting editorial about the passing down of information from one generation to the next. In it, the writer explains that we must be careful not to lose the wisdom of humanity amidst the advancement of technology. She specifically describes her belief …
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 …
The sweeping applicability of present-mindedness
My introduction to present-mindedness was brought about by nothing more than an effort to improve my poker game, but I’ve discovered in the years since that its applications are quite numerous (seemingly limitless, in fact). A quick search for “staying in the moment” yielded some interesting stories about how …
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