- Yep.
So, I've been getting down on some
Alec Torelli videos lately.
He's got this one where a viewer asks him:
Can anybody be a successful poker player?
I'm gonna link that at the bottom.
It's worth taking a look at.
Alec chose to answer it
in three different layers.
Like if we define success one way,
then the answer is this.
I thought that was a cool take on it.
I'm gonna do it in a
way that's more simple,
and I think a little bit more relevant
for what the community
struggles with overall.
You guys have a big problem
with not getting going.
There's this starting friction
caused by a certain amount of fear,
and, I think, fear of
failure that's mounted in you
that causes you to have a really hard time
justifying a path and
just getting going on it.
So, here's my answer, very
simple, to this question of
can anyone become a
successful poker player.
The answer is yes anyone can,
but you can't because you're
still asking the question.
There was a talk that I had
on my Amsterdam coaching trip
with a bunch of the students
who did the immersion program.
One guy was in another
business at the time
and he was considering
coming back full time.
He was some guy that met us out there
who won a random free Instagram giveaway.
His question was very similar:
When is it time to go pro?
It's time when you're
done asking the question.
To understand this, you have to see
how much the seed of doubt
is controlling your career.
You think it makes sense to
logically assess and theorize
before you completely jump in,
but it doesn't actually work
because you can't get that missing piece
until you get in there in the mix of it.
So, we're all afraid.
I'm scared everyday.
The difference between guys who are
already chugging along and
making progress everyday
and the guys that are still
deliberating and debating
is that the guys who are doing shit
have reached a point of emotional leverage
where we know that we're not turning back
because the alternative
is completely disastrous.
We've clarified that the
alternative is not worth it,
and that's something that
can only happen, I think,
after you've had either enough pain
or until you've injected
enough logic into the situation
to see that, wow, what's being said here
actually does relate to me.
I've been theorizing for way too long.
Maybe I don't need so much pain
to reach the point where I jump ship.
Maybe I can make a logical decision
to just get in there and allow myself
to make mistakes and be
self forgiving enough
to course correct as I go.
So, you have two options.
You can be logical about it and see that
the pattern of over-theorizing
before jumping in is actually futile,
or you can go through the amount of pain
that it will be necessary for
you to go to until you shift.
There's this quote coming to mind.
I think it was Harrison
Ford said it in some movie.
He says, "You're never ready.
You go when you're ready enough."
Hit that point and then move,
and don't look back.
