In Part One we talked about how passion and perseverance may be more important to turn whatever talents you have into tangible profit; but that it will only show itself through relentless practice and focused analysis. And further, that you may not even know how talented you really are, nor may you ever become fully aware of how close you are to reaching a toss-consistency break-thru, if you don't have the passion and perseverance to tirelessly look for it and exploit it.
More than the basic gratification that comes from finding it and optimally exploiting it though, is the likely realization that you can actually generate far more net-profit than that made by shooters with greater sheer talent…but who lack the passion, determination and perseverance to wring maximal profitability out of their current talents like you will.
Much more importantly however; the grit, perseverance, and determination that you put into your practice-sessions at home, may turn out to be a really good gauge of your future in-casino success.
Today we’re going to look at ways that you can further develop and then apply a winning attitude on your at-home practice-rig, so that it will help foster and facilitate a consistently winning toss in the casino.
A Winning Attitude Doesn’t Trump Your D-I Abilities, but it Sure Maximizes Them
We seen thousands upon thousands of players come into our collective D-I community (including all the various competing D-I schools and movements), and we’ve seen most of them fail. The thing is though, many of those failures are by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
~Some tried so many different grips and toss-motions that they never got a good handle on how strong their de-randomizing talents really were.
~Some developed the tossing-talent, but wouldn’t apply matched-to-skill betting-methods; so they blew their nut and they left.
~Some were incredibly close to putting that whole bet-to-skill equation together, but they didn’t put in enough practice to fully embed their skills so they’d be instantly conscriptable in the casino.
~Some were able to put all of that together; yet their unbridled random betting induced such horrific or at least, pernicious losses; that even their own stellar shooting wasn’t good enough to overcome their random-bet losses.
Though the reasons as to why we’ve lost so many community-members who were so close to success, are as numerable as all possible dice-permutations combined; the whole absence-of-grit-and-resolve, lack-of-determination-and-commitment, and blocked-to-fresh-thinking-and-open-mindedness theme runs throughout almost ALL of their departures (though sometimes you do have to rub a little below the “I gave up D-I to pursue, uhhh, gardening” excuse that they usually proffer).
And though a winning attitude doesn’t trump raw D-I abilities altogether; it sure helps to maximize and give voice to those talents through thick and thin.
Tenacity and Determination Authorizes and Empowers Your Long-Term Goals
Let’s not kid ourselves, skill does play a crucial part in contributing to your success, but all of that hinges on the amount of effort that you put into fine-tuning and developing those skills BEFORE you get to the casino.
However, the simple fact is that all of the hard work and determination that went into accomplishing something important, is usually overshadowed by the idea that it was pure talent that got the job done.
Like I said, that may be a part of it; but it would all be for naught if all the dogged determination, commitment, and resolve hadn’t gone into it in the first place.
So if persistence is vital even for an indisputably-talented shooter who has an innate sense of what toss-modification will work best on a given table; then perseverance and persistence is even more of a vital characteristic for us (including me) with lesser instinctive abilities.
Mozart's diaries, for example, contain an oft-cited passage in which the composer reports that an entire symphony appeared, supposedly intact, in his head; however no one ever quotes the next paragraph, where he talks passionately and at length about how he refined that piece of work for months afterwards.
It’s the same way with developing a good basic de-randomized toss.
You can precisely formulate it on paper by making a checklist of things you have to remember during each and every throw…you can picture the perfect toss-motion in your head and play it over and over again, hoping to embed it…but to succeed in the casino; you are going to have to practice and refine it relentlessly at home, and that’s all there is to it.
The Power of Passion
I could be wrong on this, but I think that having a fascinating sense of curiosity and a passion for excellence might just be the cornerstones of success-achieving grit.
While a passion for excellence does not necessarily mean an anally-compulsive drive for absolute perfection; it does mean that passion for success actually fuels perseverance, and hence high in-casino achievement.
Although extremely persistent people are usually passionate about their work, that doesn't mean that the passion always comes first. I think that perseverance itself can foster passion. Often the most fascinating aspects of a topic (particularly a highly complex one like dice-influencing) becomes apparent only after deep immersion and numerous setbacks, to a point where you are enlivened by it with every fiber of your being.
I guess that does sound a little compulsive; but then again, passion can be like that, can’t it.
In Part Three, we’re going to continue trying to do what we set out to do in Part One and here in P-2; and that is to doggedly look at how developing a winning in-casino toss requires a winning attitude that can only emerge from hard work, determination, commitment, resolve, and perseverance on your at-home practice-rig.
Until then,
Good Luck and Good Skill at the Tables…and in Life.
The Mad Professor
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