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Magnets attract and repel. It's one of those cool little bits of science that we get to play with in school, and it's another important bit of science when it comes to the modern world. Magnets are super important for so many of today's conveniences, from computers to trains. In poker, you want to be like a magnet.

Obi-Wan Kenobi said a lot of things to Luke Skywalker during the movie Star Wars: most of it was not particularly helpful. Sprinkled in with the bits of listening to his feelings and avoiding the unpleasant topic of who Luke's real father was, he did have one nugget of wisdom: "let go". Poker is a game of decisions, and very often we don't make the right ones. For example, during the 2007 World Series of Poker Chip Jett was playing against a player who could only be considered debris. The problem was that Jett was having the hardest time beating this guy because he couldn't put the player on a hand.

In his book "Awakening the Giant Within", self motivation guru Tony Robbins talks about breaking cycles as a key element to changing behavior. Anything that could break a cycle is a good thing, according to the book, if your brain stops running on auto pilot and pays attention to what you want it to.