grinding and mental health effects - Page 3

I find that if you grind alternate days it can help with the stress level and you have less tendancy to go on tilt and you can go out and get some exercise

what johnnybologna said.
i did it once, did all live for a month and went back online kinda refreshed.

thanks alot for the responses guys
I just feel sometimes like poker is taking too big of a role in my life and it takes away from other stuff- social life and studying.

I guess I should just find a way to balance these three instead of jumping from one extreme to the other.
I bought "poker blueprint" lately- and I rarely do other stuff since, which makes me feel really bad about myself. It just gave me such a sick motivational boost- wanting to improve my game, that I just gave a shit about anything else...
so far it has been- either poker all day and no life, or weed and going out all day with little poker time (sadly, studying is never a priority really).

you got any good advice about balancing poker with your day to day life? studying etc.

On March 23 2010 06:32 rozyboy wrote: thanks alot for the responses guys I just feel sometimes like poker is taking too big of a role in my life and it takes away from other stuff- social life and studying. I guess I should just find a way to balance these three instead of jumping from one extreme to the other. I bought "poker blueprint" lately- and I rarely do other stuff since, which makes me feel really bad about myself. It just gave me such a sick motivational boost- wanting to improve my game, that I just gave a shit about anything else... so far it has been- either poker all day and no life, or weed and going out all day with little poker time (sadly, studying is never a priority really). you got any good advice about balancing poker with your day to day life? studying etc.

i sacrificed school...don't really go to many classes anymore = lots more time

On March 23 2010 06:32 rozyboy wrote: thanks alot for the responses guys I just feel sometimes like poker is taking too big of a role in my life and it takes away from other stuff- social life and studying. I guess I should just find a way to balance these three instead of jumping from one extreme to the other. I bought "poker blueprint" lately- and I rarely do other stuff since, which makes me feel really bad about myself. It just gave me such a sick motivational boost- wanting to improve my game, that I just gave a shit about anything else... so far it has been- either poker all day and no life, or weed and going out all day with little poker time (sadly, studying is never a priority really). you got any good advice about balancing poker with your day to day life? studying etc.

theres no quick solution for being lazy about studying. you just make yourself do it.

On March 22 2010 10:12 Steal City wrote: too long didn't read, 10 hours a day grind with no transportation time and the ability to eat while u work sounds like an ez job. if u sleep 8 hours a day u have 6 free hours a day. U can watch 2 movies and go out to a bar and get drunk with friends every single night. Wow sick free time wtf are u complaining about. I used to pull 14 hour days for a month straight or one summer when i had to pay for school 15/16 hour days 13 days every 2 weeks. Didn't have any bad mental health effects. It depends on how clear your goals are partially. I was making serious progress when I was paying off college. Having such a goal and plan will stave off an existential depression. However, when all your needs are already met and making money will no longer feel like progress and you're not getting enough social contact existential depression will set it. It has it's evolutionary purposes. They say even clinical depression helps to stimulate procreation. If poker is giving you that free time or that sense that you have your immediate needs met... then the problems that arise from that are not something you should blame on poker. You should thank poker for allowing them to be realized and hopefully fixed by finding meaning in your life. If the mental problems are other types of mental problems, I'm guessing they would exist in any similar lifestyle. Personally poker has never been a stressful job for me but for poker players who aren't making good money I can imagine it would be stressful. If you are in that later category, it's not poker, it's you and you should find a new profession. You should really turn to wiki or psychology forums about these things instead of LP though

it's a shame a lot of people won't read this because it doesn't contain paragraphs (-_-) but i think it's a really good post