Originally posted by modeob
This is a good answer: Professional Attitude
To be honest, I never liked that article.
The fact of the matter is, downswings exist, and sometimes you can make all the right decisions in poker and still lose, possibly even over a larger period of time. Likening all of this to making excuses, as the article implies, is just really bad advice in my opinion. True, it's important to keep analyzing your game during downswings and stay in control of the things you can influence, but outright claiming "There is no downswing in poker - only poorly played hands" really sends out the wrong message, I believe, which may even lead some of the more inexperienced players to result-oriented thinking.
And that second part about the "popstar principle" is just embarrassing. Seriously? These are supposed to be our role-models for work ethic and professionalism? The participants of some fake, overly commercialized casting show, whose winners are completely forgotten within a few months? Frankly, you gotta respect the author's courage for even admitting that he watches that crap.
The rest in there is pretty basic advice. Nothing wrong, but nothing that hasn't been said a thousand times before either. And to be fair, it's an older article, though I doubt that any of this was groundbreaking stuff even back then.
I do my best 
