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POSTED May 05, 2021

The title says it all as Chris Pimmer delves into the importance of maintaining consistency both in your personal life and at the poker table.

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Daniel Clemente 3 years, 11 months ago

Loved this. I needed to hear this as someone in a downswing who feels pressure/guilt around needing to intensely study.

Small easy wins every day with the future in mind > Burning yourself out worrying about the present.

Thanks Chris!

Jeff_ 3 years, 11 months ago

Superb video Chris!
Interesting examples, small wins is better than 0 for sure. However when you think you can win big, feels guilty to only get small win. (Not talking about poker results, can take daily studying for example)

Chris Pimmer 3 years, 11 months ago

Thanks Jeff_ yeah, gotta learn the balance, some times it is ok to go big and hard. But many can look at themselves and if they see their data, they likely realize they would have been better off not forgetting about the small and consistent rise.
Small is still a relative term and everything has to be looked at from its own stand point.

emsterdad 2 years, 8 months ago

Great video again.

Have you read Tim Grover?

How do you know the difference between doing too little and just needing to “man up” and do you thing?

For example, you will hear:
“I am going to workout 5 times a week!!” .. does it for 2 weeks, then never work outs again.

You talk about making it smaller and I agree. But a professional poker player also can’t say: I am going to play 1 hour today.. and that’s it for this week.

Chris Pimmer 2 years, 8 months ago

Hey thank you very much and yes I have read Tim.
Now, let's look at what you said. What matters is the perspective I say this from and you do.
making it smaller is to be taken in context.
If you are a pro and you play 0 hours or like 3 hours a week for many weeks but you set your "goal" at 28 hours a week, well then you are falling quite a bit short and this might lead to you getting down on yourself and then this can quickly lead to you being quickly frustrated while playing, focusing too much on some arbitrary short term results and then your performance declines, which can lead to anxiety while playing and when you play with anxiety and are constantly under fire and rarely get any calm in your days because all you think about is how hard you fail, then you are setting yoursefl up for a rude awakening.
So, if all you do is play 1 hour a week, you are not a pro, and if you are and this started recently, then you are creating the possibility of being out of the pro game if this continues for a very long time, because by nature, you are in it to play and not to sit on the sidelines. So in this context reducing your expectations to something that you can realistically manage and work on the mental side so that in time you will be able to increase that volume has a higher chance of working both in your life and your poker.
I will likely be talking about something similar in an upcoming video.

emsterdad 2 years, 8 months ago

Hi.

I am not a pro but I get what you are saying. I mention Tim because if you read his books, I do believe he goes with the same principle of smaller but he also has a mentality of being the hardest worker in the room. Look at Kobe Bryant, they even had to refuse him entering the gym so he won’t hurt himself. If that’s the mentality of your opponents, shouldn’t we strive to have a even greater work ethic (wherever you are a pro in) The classic Will Smith: you won’t beat me on a treadmill

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