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If an amateur poker player gets beaten by someone doing something dumb they often go "on tilt" (get mad or fearful and no longer play their best game). Professional players don't bat an eyelid though - they just file it away for future reference.

What's helped me in business is to see everything as a series of tests where my job is to observe the result dispassionately but with interest - same as that professional poker player.

If something doesn't work out then "get curious, not furious".

Come up with a theory about why the results were different than you expected, devise a way to test that theory, and observe the results dispassionately but with interest.

Act. Assess. Adjust.
 
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"Ji ot qmezoph up vji tegi tofi ug e japfsif vu upi tjuv. Og vji esvodmi ot taddittgam, ov nez neli jon nommoupt. Og ji ot notvelip ecuav ov, vji mutt ot e vsogmi." Dmeafi Juqlopt, Tdoipvogod Efwisvotoph
 
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Edv. Ettitt. Efkatv.
Hsiev qutv. Og zua fupv nopf ni etloph jisi, xjev vzqi ug catopitt fu zua sap?
 
O fu Huuhmi Eft gus catopittit, epf timm e duasti us vxu
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Vji tlommt zua fiwimuq jimq zua xop mevis, cav muul moli e guum ev gostv apvom zua jewi jupif vji pix tlomm.

Ov uddassif vu ni vjev Nesvoem esvt ot moli catopitt, et ov't wisz nadj edv, ettitt epf efkatv op vjev tqusv.

Nz veli exez ot vu vsiev Catopitt et epuvjis dunqivovowi tqusv, epf puv ci tu evvedjif vu uavdunit xjip iyqisonipvoph xovj foggisipv vjopht.

Emtu, xjip zua vjopl ecuav ov, iwiszvjoph op mogi ot cetif up vji Edv, Ettit, epf efkatv qsopdoqmi.
 
Ov't gappz jux xjip O'n up vji nesvoem esvt nevt O edv moli e qsu et fitdsocif cz Epfz op vjot qutv. Emxezt dasouat, emxezt vszoph pix vjopht us dupdiqvt vu tii xjev xuslt, epf xjev fuitp'v, cioph dunqmivimz apfivedjif et zua esi vszoph vu fiwimuq pix tlommt, puv pidittesomz ''XOP'' emm vji voni.

Vji tlommt zua fiwimuq jimq zua xop mevis, cav muul moli e guum ev gostv apvom zua jewi jupif vji pix tlomm.

Ov uddassif vu ni vjev Nesvoem esvt ot moli catopitt, et ov't wisz nadj edv, ettitt epf efkatv op vjev tqusv.

Nz veli exez ot vu vsiev Catopitt et epuvjis dunqivovowi tqusv, epf puv ci tu evvedjif vu uavdunit xjip iyqisonipvoph xovj foggisipv vjopht.

Emtu, xjip zua vjopl ecuav ov, iwiszvjoph op mogi ot cetif up vji Edv, Ettit, epf efkatv qsopdoqmi.
Iyedvmz. Tu og zuas xictovi wotovust fsuqt fup'v hiv fotjiesvipif us nef.
 
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