Tilting is a concept that was introduced to me by a couple of friends who play poker.
The idea is this: when you “tilt” or emotionally react to something, you immediately lose – focus, power, concentration and the ability to make a logical decision.
In a poker game, this makes sense. If you’re playing through probabilities and logic, even if you’re on a losing streak… you know from the probabilities what your best next moves are, and if you don’t let your emotions get the better of you then you’ll come out on top.
I think that the same principle applies to everything in life. The better you can remove emotion from the decision process and just do the right (and logical) thing regardless of how you feel about it, the better off you will be.
So I’m challenging myself for the next 21 days – no tilting. No emotional reactions to bad stuff that doesn’t go my way (had aplenty of that this morning already) – I’m just going to move past it, act as I would if everything was fine and get on with doing stuff.
- Aaron P
