Poker With Presence

When you start to identify too strongly with your issues, they become a necessary part of your regular human experience, and you'll do whatever it takes to keep it that way.

Presence is effortless—and if your way of playing is to focus as hard as you can and tire yourself out, that's not it.

Andrew Lichtenberger joins the show to talk all things presence, such as: what it's like to be perceived by others the way he is, how he's able to blend technical mastery with intuition, and what he meant when he tweeted that luck might be just "another form of skill."

Whether playing poker or dealing with holiday travel, learning how to accept things as they come—as a feeling, not a thought—will get you where you want to go.

If you're having trouble being totally happy for people around you having success, you've got a big problem on your hands.

When you fixate on wanting something to be true, you'll start to convince yourself things are true when they aren't—and this will derail your performance over time.

Educating players at the table is a financial disaster, but something that happens all the time if you get overly dependent on external things for validation.

The key to winning in any game is always staying one step ahead

The worst advice you can implement into your game in big moments is to "act like you've been there before," because you haven't—and trying to pretend you have will create tension in your system and take you out of presence.

When you stop trying to pretend you're something you're not, a huge weight drops away and you can finally play and perform from a place of creativity and flow.