I am leaving for All Cal, an awesome snowboarding trip with college students, tomorrow morning. I will be out of contact for a bit. I have been slacking on my video production and will need to make up for it when I get back. I think the downswing has bruised my ego in a lot of ways. I got into a debate with Tom Berg - brystmar - while he was here about people's intelligence. I believe that people's experience's mainly denotes what most people would consider intelligence in a specific field, he believes some people are more inclined to be good at a field because "thats just the way they will work." While I do not deny that people have an overall ability to understand information faster or slower than others, I believe that every small experience leading up to a challenge or test characterizes how someone will perform at that test, and general intelligence has very little to do with it. The reason I am saying this is because I feel I am really not a good poker player in a couple senses of the word. I have spent a ton of time focusing on analyzing the game, and therefore I'm not horrible, but I have slacked in a lot of areas where others haven't and because of that my success is limited. When I get back from All Cal (and the Bahamas Dec 28-Jan 14) I intend on focusing on some of the things I have been overlooking in the past. I want to take the Brian Townsend approach to the game and work a TON behind the scenes until I really begin to grasp motives and hand range's, etc. I guess what I am saying is that only hard work will get the job done, and in a downswing (and since the release of Call of Duty MWF 2) I have not been working hard enough. Self-motivation is the toughest and often most important quality to possess.

Mad props to Stinger, mad mad props.