Tilt and your brain. Part 1

[Efficent]

This series of posts is going to examine how to look at tilt psychologically and consequently find individual and effective ways of dealing with it.

Part one is very simple but also sort of difficult and important.

We need to define what tilt is, but we need to do it the way a psychologist would.

The esoteric word here is operational definition. This means that tilt has to be defined in terms that are measurable (objectively). Sounds like a bunch of academic bull **** I know, but its important if were ever going to get beyond random wishy washy introspective platitudes and get to stuff that genuinely works.

A quick example to start people on the right path:

Hot
Bad definition: When its really warm, when theres allot of heat.
Good definition: 90 degrees Fahrenheit or above.

Unfocused
Bad definition: Unable to think clearly.
Good definition: Unable to solve a rubix cube in under ten minutes.

Good luck, there should be a bunch of valid definitions out there for tilt.

[MYNAMEIZGREG]

Tilt:
Making incorrect decisions, in the amount of 1 or more, than you would make if you were psychologically stable

How'd I do?

[cwar]

An irrational psychological influence on decision making that competes with or negates rational intellectual thoughts.

[aejones]

it's when my heart starts beating quickly, i get really warm so i take off my shirt, i have trouble breathing so i literally gulp some very deep breaths, i can feel my pulse going 200 mph, so i check it, usually in my neck, sometimes i see if something cold is around so i can put it on my neck and calm my body, but that never works, so i use the physical maladies as an excuse to concentrate and focus on the computer screen and make decisions that are marginal and err on the overaggressive side, nearly always pushing marginal edges that should be pushed when i have a good image but not a tilting image.

i don't give a **** about technicality that's ****en tilt man

[Efficent]

Originally Posted by MYNAMEIZGREG

Tilt:
Making incorrect decisions, in the amount of 1 or more, than you would make if you were psychologically stable

How'd I do?

Do we have an objective way to measure incorrect decisions that you would not make if you were 'stable'?

[Efficent]

Originally Posted by cwar

An irrational psychological influence on decision making that competes with or negates rational intellectual thoughts.

Sounds pretty but not operational at all. It's not that its not a good definition its just that a panel could debate all day on if what they were observing was tilt using you criteria.

[Efficent]

Originally Posted by aejones

it's when my heart starts beating quickly, i get really warm so i take off my shirt, i have trouble breathing so i literally gulp some very deep breaths, i can feel my pulse going 200 mph, so i check it, usually in my neck, sometimes i see if something cold is around so i can put it on my neck and calm my body, but that never works, so i use the physical maladies as an excuse to concentrate and focus on the computer screen and make decisions that are marginal and err on the overaggressive side, nearly always pushing marginal edges that should be pushed when i have a good image but not a tilting image.

i don't give a **** about technicality that's ****en tilt man

See a doctor immediately.

[cwar]

I like this game, and this thread

[cwar]

How about:
"When a person who has a history of making profitable decisions ceases to do so for emotional reasons."

[MYNAMEIZGREG]

Cwar - Efficent means you gotta run something you can chart. Something concrete, like a number