Spies and Punting

A weird fact I love:

Americans tend to lean on things when they’re standing around.

So much so, that the CIA has to retrain their operatives to break this habit so they don’t stick out when they’re abroad.

I never noticed until I heard this a few months ago.

Now I think about it often.

Either when I see someone else, or when I find myself leaning on something without ever intentionally making that decision.

It’s one of those things that once you see it, you can never un-see it.

The good news is I don’t ever plan on being a CIA operative, so that’s one pattern I won’t have to go through the process of breaking. 

It’ll just give me a little laugh every time I notice.

No one ever taught me to lean.

I picked up from the people around me.

It never caused any chaos, so I never questioned it.

The way I used to handle my emotions?

I was never taught that either. Just something I picked up from everyone else.

And those people picked it up from everyone else too.

And as it turns out, nearly everyone is just kind of stuffing them down, or setting them aside for later to some degree. When everything is going alright, it doesn’t seem to cause too many issues. But as soon as some big stuff happens (good or bad), things are going to start playing out the same frustrating way they always do.

Whatever “self-sabotage” patterns you have will inevitably see the light once again.

When you’re on the inside, and it’s happening to you, you don’t get to notice until after.

In poker, this usually means punting off stacks, taking huge breaks, or just kind of showing up without much excitement and praying you run good.

We all react a little differently, but it tends to be really hard to see it yourself.

If you’re not quite sure where you’re going wrong, but feel like you’re leaving something on the table with poker, hit me up for a free intro call.

No commitment either way.

But at the very least, I’ll be able to show you the thing you’re not seeing on your own.

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