awesome post by ZJ

[melioris]

The Kurn/TP side topic is turning into an interesting topic. It gets to core reason of why you play JD. If you play to make a tidy profit on the side while you are pursing a career in something else, then it really shouldn't be hard to make school your priority, as that is what is required to get a 'normal' career. But if you are seriously considering poker as a career, I think you should take a year leave from school and give it a try.

Yes, the social aspects of college are very important. But unless you go to class and do the best work you can, then you are just overpaying for a summer camp. Fucking up and getting thrown out of college because you failed classes is bad, but I think it is for more damaging, and a lot more common, for bright, intelligent students to grow accustomed to doing the minimal to get by. This embrace of mediocrity is the curse of modern America, and our best and brightest are learning it in college. Don't fall victim to it.

Decide what is important to you and demand excellence from yourself those areas. If you are unwilling to do what it takes to achieve excellence in an area of your life that is important, then have enough courage to realize you were fooling yourself when you decided that the area was important.

So if you are fucking up in college, figure out if it is because you really would rather be playing poker and learning how to be a great poker player, or is it because you have only been in college for a month and shit, it is a crazy fun adjustment but you lost sight of why you are the in the first place. But whatever you decide, think it through and go for it. Don’t allow yourself to be mediocre.

Oh, and hurry up and post those pictures you talked about in the other thread. I got to be the best dirty old man I can