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RE: Poker Tip Man Armen: "On Tilt"
I have limited knowledge of Poker however I do take your points that patience is a virtue, knowing when to quit and how to control your emotions would be fundamentally important.
I think a mistake people make when trying to control their tilt is to try and control their emotions. Conscious emotional control is unnatural and can often make your longterm health worse. Emotions are a natural effect of us being put into different scenarios and are the result of how we deal with these scenarios, if the thought behind the emotion isn't resolved the emotion will often linger behind the scenes and eventually transform into a mood, we don't want that. Simply trying to control the emotion and willing yourself to not be tilted doesn't work as this method doesn't resolve the thought behind the emotion and will allow that emotion to fester and produce unwanted moods and even eventually character traits if left there for too long.