Poker With Presence

In order to overcome your fear of failure in poker, you have to get completely present with the idea that failure is always on the table—get comfortable with this, and you free yourself up to play your best.

The experience we have of anger is shaped by what the world has told us is okay

There's nothing more frustrating than knowing you should do something, but doing the opposite before you can turn your intuition into action.

Don't try to copy what makes someone else successful—instead, focus on shifting as much of your poker experience to using your natural talents and strengths.

There's room inside you to include both happiness and fear—let both  in together, and you'll enjoy the experience much more while also unlocking your highest levels of performance.

There's always that one person who seems to crush you every time you play, and dealing with that dynamic is a skill worth developing.

When you're in a downswing, resist the temptation to go straight to action—and let yourself feel everything that needs to be felt first.

The more present you get, the more you can recognize when you need to pull back versus when you can keep leaning in and growing into a bigger version of yourself

When big money is on the line, you literally become a different version of yourself with altered thoughts and ideas.

When you master presence, you can start to create huge shifts in outcomes by executing very subtle processes.