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Embracing the fear of failure

July 15th, 2008 by caspar

The weird thing about being a professional poker player is that in order to be able to make your rent money at the end of every month… you must be prepared to lose two poker hands out of every five you play. And I’ll let you into a little secret… no matter how long you do it for and how much you understand that fact rationally it never gets emotionally any easier. The simple fact of the matter is that as human beings we are hardwired to hate failing.