At one point, my daughter had wanted to do Family Law as a career. "Why would you want to surround yourself with that much heartache?" was the obvious parental response. Thankfully, she is now planning a different career path.
And so it is with poker variance. Why do we choose a pastime that in the short term is inherently stressful and highly likely in the bad times to affect our general persona? It is time consuming and as I am in a full-time job, that encroaches on family and exercise time. Presumably then, it must provide us with benefits too (or as rational creatures we wouldn’t do it).
Personally, I benefit from a heightened ability to make risk-based decisions at work; I feel more confident making significant decisions in a timely manner with incomplete information. It is also a healthy outlet for exercising what modicum of intellect I have in a competitive arena.
What value do you derive from your poker journey?
6 years ago
