do your best

    “I’ve gathered everything, now I must put 2 balls for 7 strokes,” I say to the fourth game in a pool with a friend. And out of the next 5 strokes I really put 4. One of them is a “brother-in-law”, with a good pull, where the angle of departure does not exceed, in my opinion, 50 degrees from direct movement. The night build starts at 2, and although the last shuttle to the subway, where I leave, leaves long before it, some insurmountable obligation to put changes in the storage before the build makes me work faster, less often leaving for tea and nicotine. The $ 6 paid for participating in a poker tournament requires me to pay back immediately. And I play super-right, tight ( poker ), and $ 25 for a victory is a good confirmation of this.

    Often, when restrictions on freedom of error are imposed on us, we mobilize and begin to act more efficiently. These restrictions do not have to be external, they can come from within. It is enough to collect yourself, forbidding yourself to make mistakes, and the mind itself begins to act correctly, sometimes unconsciously choosing the right steps.
    Experienced poker players know that a positive balance in a game does not consist of rare enchanting combinations, but of a stable and correct drawing of medium-sized hands. In life, everything goes according to the same scenario. It is obvious to everyone that top managers (Nobel laureates, outstanding athletes) become not by the will of the lot, but as a result of long and painstaking work that does not bring payback corresponding to the expended efforts within 95% of the way, and only the last 5% comes money , respect and everything else. And to go through these 95%, you need a huge inner concentration, concentration and focus on the end point of the path.
    In small battles of everyday life (a game of billiards, completion of a piece of work today, not tomorrow), the end point is not so obvious, and the benefits of its achievement are not immediately visible. Not everyone has the tactical foresight to look at tomorrow, and understand that 30 times unfinished work gives a monthly delay in time, that 100 dollars lost 6 times when playing poker give a tangible part of the salary. Therefore, even more important is the ability to concentrate and gather even when the pros and cons of victories and defeats in small battles are not so obvious. Losing in the small, it is difficult to expect victory in the big, because it consists of local victories.

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