luck
Most improvements were a discovery then long brutal amounts of time to incorporate the discovery. The best took years to put it in my game.
However, a right angle turn that I incorporated into pool and several other forms of competition, there is no such thing as luck! Or to be more exact, it is such a tiny percentage of what causes wins and losses that it doesn't matter.
An example, the player that rearranges the furniture every shot. You lose to a player that does this and it is easy to blame their good luck or your bad luck. In reality, their playing style creates wide swings in the balls they pocket. It isn't luck at all, it is playing style.
There is almost no such thing as good rolls and bad rolls. Nor do we consistently lose to someone worse than us. I have had a few small time gamblers that played me for weeks or months quit playing me saying, "I am the better player but I can't outrun your luck!" Hated to lose them as customers but better that they thought it was luck than skill.
Once I threw out the jack of all trades excuse, "luck", I became a far better competitor. I think I became a better person too when I applied the same thoughts about luck to my life. When we are honest, very very little that happens is random chance. We not only set up our successes, we set up our failures too.
Hu
Most improvements were a discovery then long brutal amounts of time to incorporate the discovery. The best took years to put it in my game.
However, a right angle turn that I incorporated into pool and several other forms of competition, there is no such thing as luck! Or to be more exact, it is such a tiny percentage of what causes wins and losses that it doesn't matter.
An example, the player that rearranges the furniture every shot. You lose to a player that does this and it is easy to blame their good luck or your bad luck. In reality, their playing style creates wide swings in the balls they pocket. It isn't luck at all, it is playing style.
There is almost no such thing as good rolls and bad rolls. Nor do we consistently lose to someone worse than us. I have had a few small time gamblers that played me for weeks or months quit playing me saying, "I am the better player but I can't outrun your luck!" Hated to lose them as customers but better that they thought it was luck than skill.
Once I threw out the jack of all trades excuse, "luck", I became a far better competitor. I think I became a better person too when I applied the same thoughts about luck to my life. When we are honest, very very little that happens is random chance. We not only set up our successes, we set up our failures too.
Hu