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Optimal psychological state is the key to your productive and successful poker game. Therefore, today you will learn about self-regulation, which is regularly covered in the MTT Telegram channel of the Exan13 School. (!!!)
1. What is psychological self-regulation
Psychological (mental) self-regulation is one of the levels of regulation of your activity to achieve performance results. The basis for the formation of a mature human personality is the need for constant self-development and self-improvement. Self-regulation affects the formation of a person's personality, as it allows you to keep a balance emotionally, as well as the distribution of your resources to all areas of life in general (work, family, play, friends, etc.).
A poorly formed system of human self-regulation does not provide enough resources for all purposes, which leads to emotional exhaustion, tilt, and other negative states, the causes of which cannot be independently found. Self-regulation is formed in stages. This is not an innate property, but something that you need to constantly see in the world and develop inside yourself for everyone!
2. Factors affecting self-regulation of the individual
There are two groups of factors – external and internal.
Internal factors
Internal (personal) factors include:
- Self-observation The ability to look at oneself from the outside without evaluation.
- The process of making judgments (judgmentalprocess) Analysis of one's activities without self-deprecation, but with an objective understanding of what is happening and the delineation of one's own personality.
- Activeself-reaction This includes accepting oneself, rebuilding the system of relations with the world, if something goes wrong, and any decisions to change and grow above oneself.
External factors
External factors are some assessments, the standards of others, which are adopted and their behavior is evaluated through their prism. All these factors indicate the maturity and stability of the individual, so very often many people who are not engaged in the development of their own psychology have a lack of them.
3. Systematic process of self-regulation
Any person, regardless of whether he wants to or not, is the initiator for the process of self-regulation.
It has a systematic structure, which has the following elements:
- The purpose of the activity. Which you determine for yourself. For example, successful gaming sessions;
- A set of conditions. Which are important for choosing methods to achieve the goal. Here you define these conditions for yourself: the game grid, the organization of the workspace, the theoretical knowledge base, ways to master new game skills, rest time, etc. Alexey Exan13 devoted a whole section of the site to this topic - "Personal Effectiveness";
- Development of a program of executive actions. Based on the theory, you build your activity program, introducing mechanisms into it to return yourself to emotional balance. For example, how to discover the Tilt in yourself and get out of it, you can see in the series of lectures Psychology of Poker: 7 reasons for your failures (!!!)
- A system of criteria for achieving the desired result, determined by the goal. How will you know you have achieved your goal? Often, this link of self-regulation is not sufficiently developed and is not taken into account, which leads to the repetition of unsuccessful scenarios;
- Monitoring and evaluation of the results achieved. It is carried out according to the program you have previously built. Here you need to assess whether you have achieved the goal? Are you satisfied with everything?
- Assessment of the need for correction of the self-regulation system. If, after evaluating the results, you are not satisfied enough, then the self-regulation system is corrected and changed. It is not always necessary to change the system completely, sometimes you can change one thing.
Each link has important regulatory functions. They are included in the process in constant interaction with each other, which ensures the integrity and consistency of the system. With a developed system of self-regulation, you have stress resistance, clear boundaries of personality, built a system of relations with the world, where the resource is enough for all areas without harming any of them.
Therefore, its development is especially relevant for poker players, given that the psyche is exposed to increased stressful situations during downstairs and relocations. If after reading this article there is an understanding that something is wrong with your self-regulation — come to a consultation with a poker psychologist. It will examine the issues in more detail and individually identify steps to achieve success.
