Front load your pain
Start the week with this scary but important piece of advice for life, health, business and poker, and that is to get ahead of future discomfort.
We don't believe that watching a motivational video will suddenly make you a great poker player, consistent good habits and a commitment to learning will. However, it is undeniable that a short term boost of inspiration can start a positive snowball effect.
Every Monday morning at SpinLegends we share a 'Monday Motivation' video to get our players in the right frame of mind. Whether it's poker, chess, sport, business or study, the lessons are always universal, so we want to get you pumped in the same way.
This advice comes from one of the most popular self help posts ever on Reddit, which is that the key to success in life, health and wealth is to 'front load your pain'. It sounds extreme but it actually just means that to get anything we want we need to be willing to endure some discomfort, so it's better to get ahead of it. So for example if you want to be healthy, it's about voluntarily putting your body through the discomfort of exercise rather than later suffering the discomfort of poor health. In work it's about suffering longer hours, early mornings or learning new skills, to boost your career, rather than suffering being in a dead end job five years from now.
This can easily be applied to poker in several ways, but two stick out. Yes, it can be boring studying long hours when you want to play, but that's a better discomfort than getting owned at the tables because you have let the game pass you by. Likewise it's a natural instinct in poker to pick soft games all the time, but if you front loaded the pain by taking shots at tougher games, you will become a much tougher reg later down the line.
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