Most things that take skill and mastery often come with an “Aha!” type moment where one can look back and point to an event, piece of knowledge, or lesson that marked a major turning point for them. I think of it as that moment where all of a sudden everything makes sense. You still may not have mastered the skill but some connector in your brain pulls together a million different random facts and you can finally see the entire picture. Some might even say that it’s that point at which you realize exactly how much you don’t know.
Have you had, or what was your “Aha!” moment in poker? What it when you mastered calculating pot odds? Was it when you began to read other players? Was it a certain piece of advice that didn’t make sense at first but one day became so clear to you that you felt like Neo waking up in the Matrix? Is there even an “Aha!” moment or is mastering poker more like driving a car where the mastery comes so incrementally that it’s difficult or impossible to point to a single event?