One game that I find myself playing a lot lately is Texas Hold Em poker. It's a game where patience pays off as well as logic and intuition. It's allowed me to see the negative effects when either logic, patience or intuition is out of balance.
The effectiveness of my decisions are many times greater than if I use the best of patience, logic and intuition. However the balance is not very easily kept as I've come to see. In fact my mind grows tired much quicker trying to maintain the balance.
This is most likely due to the fact I'm not used to making choices with all 3. Normally I go with intuition and judgments and supplement with facts. However when decisions need to be made on the spot this method lacks effectiveness at times.
While playing I see how my confidence grows to unrealistic expectations when I start to win (arrogance).
When I lose to a hand I should have won against I see how the irritation starts to build. As I become more and more aggresive and logic and patience is pushed aside I become self destructive (anger).
When I bet low even though I have a highly favored hand to lure my opponents when I could have bet big and settled for the pot. Long and behold 2 draws later I am beat (greed).
I start noticing the patterns, the tell tail signs when these aspects start to impede my judgement of reality and go against my over all sense of goals.
Because the truth is, if I am making these choices short term with a game I am probably making them long term through out my life. This is why It's important I use various different methods and catch myself before my emotions betray myself and my dreams.
The first step in trying to solve a problem is indeed realizing it's even exists and what it looks like. Second is to identify the root of the problem, and third start progression to weakening the problem till you can launch a coup de tat for it.
With that being said this game is teaching me a lot about how to handle risky choices in real life situations. Because in the end of the way all you can do is make the best choice at the time, where it will lead no one really knows till it happens.
The effectiveness of my decisions are many times greater than if I use the best of patience, logic and intuition. However the balance is not very easily kept as I've come to see. In fact my mind grows tired much quicker trying to maintain the balance.
This is most likely due to the fact I'm not used to making choices with all 3. Normally I go with intuition and judgments and supplement with facts. However when decisions need to be made on the spot this method lacks effectiveness at times.
While playing I see how my confidence grows to unrealistic expectations when I start to win (arrogance).
When I lose to a hand I should have won against I see how the irritation starts to build. As I become more and more aggresive and logic and patience is pushed aside I become self destructive (anger).
When I bet low even though I have a highly favored hand to lure my opponents when I could have bet big and settled for the pot. Long and behold 2 draws later I am beat (greed).
I start noticing the patterns, the tell tail signs when these aspects start to impede my judgement of reality and go against my over all sense of goals.
Because the truth is, if I am making these choices short term with a game I am probably making them long term through out my life. This is why It's important I use various different methods and catch myself before my emotions betray myself and my dreams.
The first step in trying to solve a problem is indeed realizing it's even exists and what it looks like. Second is to identify the root of the problem, and third start progression to weakening the problem till you can launch a coup de tat for it.
With that being said this game is teaching me a lot about how to handle risky choices in real life situations. Because in the end of the way all you can do is make the best choice at the time, where it will lead no one really knows till it happens.
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