Poker as a performance setting
Tendler’s selected books treat emotion, attention, and recurring mistakes as parts of performance. The table supplies a setting where decisions and outcomes can pull apart.
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FIND JARED TENDLER 01 — 02
01Explore The Mental Game of Poker
02Explore The Mental Game of Poker 2 
PEOPLE WORTH GETTING TO KNOW
Jared Tendler
Mental game coach & author
Tendler examines the emotional and attentional patterns that can undermine decisions in competitive settings.
The selected starting point here is The Mental Game of Poker, volumes 1 and 2.
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The story behind it.
Tendler examines the emotional and attentional patterns that can undermine decisions in competitive settings.
Two volumes, different emphases
The first Mental Game of Poker addresses recurring mental-game problems; the second develops learning and performance themes further. Both remain individually accessible here.
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If you only explore two things.
Book
The Mental Game of Poker
Jared Tendler, with Barry Carter
A framework for examining tilt, confidence, motivation, and reactions to uncertainty.
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The Mental Game of Poker 2
Jared Tendler, with Barry Carter
A second volume on focus, learning, endurance, and sustaining better performance.
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More worth your time.
Framework
Adult Learning Model
Tendler uses the four-stage competence model in his discussion of learning and mental performance.
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