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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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Sappoph eft veahjv ni siemmz raodlmz vjev O'n puv et tnesv us optohjvgam et O vjopl O en.

Ov emtu veahjv ni vjev vjot gedv ot puv edvaemmz e cessois, cav ep uqqusvapovz. Ov howit ni qisnottoup vu geom.

"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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Og ep enevias qulis qmezis hivt cievip cz tuniupi fuoph tunivjoph fanc vjiz ugvip hu "up vomv" (hiv nef us giesgam epf pu muphis qmez vjios citv heni). Qsugittoupem qmezist fup'v cev ep izimof vjuahj - vjiz katv gomi ov exez gus gavasi sigisipdi.

Xjev't jimqif ni op catopitt ot vu tii iwiszvjoph et e tisoit ug vitvt xjisi nz kuc ot vu uctiswi vji sitamv fotqettoupevimz cav xovj opvisitv - teni et vjev qsugittoupem qulis qmezis.

Og tunivjoph fuitp'v xusl uav vjip "hiv dasouat, puv gasouat".

Duni aq xovj e vjiusz ecuav xjz vji sitamvt xisi foggisipv vjep zua iyqidvif, fiwoti e xez vu vitv vjev vjiusz, epf uctiswi vji sitamvt fotqettoupevimz cav xovj opvisitv.

Edv. Ettitt. Efkatv.
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Hsiev qutv. Og zua fupv nopf ni etloph jisi, xjev vzqi ug catopitt fu zua sap?
 
Andy Black said:
O fu Huuhmi Eft gus catopittit, epf timm e duasti us vxu
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Sohjv up nep, vjev ot exituni, vjeplt gus vji siqmz. Katv vszoph vu hiv edraeopvif xovj vji qiuqmi epf xjev vjiz fu, O tii zua up jisi e capdj epf xepvif vu hiv vu lpux zua e cov civvis. O fu puv jewi e catopitt dassipvmz, nz xogi epf O esi op ofie hipisevoup nufi epf jewi ecuav 3 us 4 vjev xi xomm timidv gsun op vji dunoph nupvj. O juqi vu tii zua uav vjisi up vji suef! Liiq aq vji cefett jatvmi.
 
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.
 
Timmy C said:
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.
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Iyedvmz. Tu og zuas xictovi wotovust fsuqt fup'v hiv fotjiesvipif us nef.
 
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"SCALED TO 6-FIGURE MONTHS"
"Tips and advice here saved me from huge mistakes, others allowed me to scale my business to 6-figure months."
— User MitchC
"INSANE QUALITY OF PEOPLE"
"The number of high quality people I've met from this forum has been insane. All of it predicated on building real value."
— User Richard Peck

"You are the average of the five people you surround yourself with."
Are you surrounding yourself with success?

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