[Dan Mezick]

(This is a great post because it's really all about experiencing the 'now'. This has a great many applications away from poker.)

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I wish I could do this, even a little.

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Getting on the path to getting there starts with taking 100% responsibility for all your results.



You can usually tell who takes 100% responsibility. They guy that is "there" never blames anyone but himself for all his results. He is never displaying behavior that suggests that he is any kind of victim. No bad beats. All credit for any success is also credited to him alone. He is never a victim of chance, or other people, or circumstances. In his view, if he is a victim at all, he is a victim of himself.

The path of 100% responsibility for all your results may lead to enhanced self-knowledge, deeper insight into others, greater overall awareness, and new kinds of perceptive power. It is literally the first, and essential, step.

Committing to taking 100% responsibility for all your results may actually lead to consciousness expansion. By first identifying and then ultimately stripping away all the limiting beliefs, judgements and attitudes that are holding you back, you gain important insights, and accumulate wisdom.

Few people have the willingness to intentionally change limiting beliefs that are no longer working. Beliefs after all are at the bottom of everything we do. Upon beliefs we build values, and from there we "behave our values and beliefs". A typical person must live through an acutely painful 'forced awareness' experience (such as huge bankroll wipeout) which causes them to begin to face the facts about limiting beliefs, without denial. The most limiting belief in the world is the belief that you are not 100% responsible for all your results-- in every area of your life.

Working from this belief can get you to "behave" yourself all the way to this place:

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You no longer view the game through the narrow perspective of your own, tiny, private worldview. You see the whole table, all the cards, all the players. None of them belong to you and you don't belong to any of them. You're given a certain amount of information and you seek the best play and you win the game by looking for it.

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Poker is a ruthless meritocracy. As such it forces each player to face or deny the central issue of 100% responsibility. This is big part of what makes poker great.