Some really good contributions to this thread guys, hats off. Getting to the fundamentals here.

So i THINK i noticed the first inclings of progress last night. Like, at first, when i first started playing nl, if i lost a buy-in or so, i would play UNTIL i made it back. I wasn't working at the time and so would sometimes see myself staying up till 5am, still down.

More recently i would still keep playing but maybe for an hour, two tops.

Last night i lost two buyins, about two sessions worth of grinding, in two hands and i shut everything down immediately. I then kicked the shit out of everything, but... there's a progrssion. So maybe one day, while i shall still tilt, the tilt itself may be prohibitted from being poured back into the game.

Maybe that's key, tilting is fine if you can get away from the game and tilt into a jog or a punch bag until you get the hang of tilt and just going: ah well.

My goal is to shut down after two buy-in loss. As long as the loss = anger anyway, otherwise i might keep playing. And again, you go away for as long as it takes to feel ready again. This is some hard psychology and personal dev shit. Patience beyond belief.

The Poker Mindset says one of the things to help disassociation with money/results is just experience. Sounds obvious but really think about it. One day we'll see enough fruits to full understand what it MEANS to lose a buy-in i.e. nothing.

Until that day I can't promise not to lose it but i'm sure it's getting closer every session.