Hello Sam, as someone who would be a multiple bracelet winner in the WSOP (World series of procrastination), this video was super helpful for me! I would benefit a huge amount from planning out important parts of my day, however I have lots of internal resistance to implementing this. I once tried to plan out an entire week, hour by hour, but after day 1 of not sticking to it, I gave up on that idea. Do you have some advice on how to overcome this resistance and plan out at least some of my day so that I am not drifting from thing to thing based on mood?
Hahaha love it.
In theory, the first thing is that our brain and body work together, so if things are off kilter, it’ll make any discipline hard (e.g. drifting between different task or drifting off as relief, getting discouraged and so on). So, sleeping well, eating unprocessed food (including plenty of vegetables and healthy fats), drinking water, moving your body should all be good elements to stop winning so many WSOP bracelets.
Beyond this, as I am an expert in PLO (Pretty Lame Organization) any ideas I can offer are mostly just as a fellow traveler. I think my most common mistake is to go for reactive tasks first (e.g. responding to emails, etc.). I hardly ever manage to get them out of the way and it just sets me up straight away for multi-tasking. It’s much better to actually schedule those in for later when you have less energy and use up the best energy for deep focus on your main tasks or projects (e.g. study or grind). Obviously, any social media during work/focus hours is a problem. Similar traps are group chats, news sites, etc. We need some kind of boundary with that stuff—their effect is too strong. Scheduling the breaks in and sticking to them is unintuitive but probably key. Decide which breaks can include screen-based stuff. Otherwise, make your schedule super basic, even ridiculously basic and then build up. We need encouragement, and it’s OK to build one step at time.
Thanks Sam, some really good advice here. I will start with a very simple plan that involves important work at times in the day where I have best energy and focus and move from there. Hopefully neither of us will be in the WSOP PLO events next summer!
Hey Sam, another great video my guy!
Haha maintaining satisfaction in poker
It’s kind of like asking did mick jagger never get any satisfaction?
It’s like are we really ever satisfied with our results? Or are we always looking to move up stakes, win more money, become more successful
Do we want to be the best player in our player pool? Or do we want to just maximize our win rate/hourly
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Sam,
Great video. Lots of great and useful information/advice here as usual.
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Hello Sam, as someone who would be a multiple bracelet winner in the WSOP (World series of procrastination), this video was super helpful for me! I would benefit a huge amount from planning out important parts of my day, however I have lots of internal resistance to implementing this. I once tried to plan out an entire week, hour by hour, but after day 1 of not sticking to it, I gave up on that idea. Do you have some advice on how to overcome this resistance and plan out at least some of my day so that I am not drifting from thing to thing based on mood?
Hahaha love it.
In theory, the first thing is that our brain and body work together, so if things are off kilter, it’ll make any discipline hard (e.g. drifting between different task or drifting off as relief, getting discouraged and so on). So, sleeping well, eating unprocessed food (including plenty of vegetables and healthy fats), drinking water, moving your body should all be good elements to stop winning so many WSOP bracelets.
Beyond this, as I am an expert in PLO (Pretty Lame Organization) any ideas I can offer are mostly just as a fellow traveler. I think my most common mistake is to go for reactive tasks first (e.g. responding to emails, etc.). I hardly ever manage to get them out of the way and it just sets me up straight away for multi-tasking. It’s much better to actually schedule those in for later when you have less energy and use up the best energy for deep focus on your main tasks or projects (e.g. study or grind). Obviously, any social media during work/focus hours is a problem. Similar traps are group chats, news sites, etc. We need some kind of boundary with that stuff—their effect is too strong. Scheduling the breaks in and sticking to them is unintuitive but probably key. Decide which breaks can include screen-based stuff. Otherwise, make your schedule super basic, even ridiculously basic and then build up. We need encouragement, and it’s OK to build one step at time.
Thanks Sam, some really good advice here. I will start with a very simple plan that involves important work at times in the day where I have best energy and focus and move from there. Hopefully neither of us will be in the WSOP PLO events next summer!
Hey Sam, another great video my guy!
Haha maintaining satisfaction in poker
It’s kind of like asking did mick jagger never get any satisfaction?
It’s like are we really ever satisfied with our results? Or are we always looking to move up stakes, win more money, become more successful
Do we want to be the best player in our player pool? Or do we want to just maximize our win rate/hourly
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