Life changing experience (then you talk about poker), I just found that funny...
Well as far as life goes, I've seen some stuff that I'm not to fond of personally, someone I met (She was cousins with a acquaintance of mine), and long story short (she had one of those personality issues, where she thought she had like 5 alter personalities)...She had asked for a favor I said "Nope" and she jumped from a 24 story building (I kid you not), it was like 5 minutes after she had asked for this favour (yeah left out one important detail in the story), she told me "If you don't I'll kill myself", and like an ass I started laughing and said "Do it", and then 5 minutes later she was done...Seeing her brains splashed (Cuz I ran down and had to see it with my own eyes), and that liquid that she was leaking+her lifeless eyes, and hearing about it 1st hand with the people she was with (What had actually happened and how), that made me actually become a more calm person in general, not drink, do anything besides really stay home and just think more about life in general, and be more content with it (Mind you I think less and less about it now, but when it happened, I actually kept hearing her last words and my dumb reply, wishing I really didn't say it)...
As for poker, personally whenever I hear such and such won the "Sunday Million", or this player won this MTT, or even the CC players that are crushing the MTT fields for the big cash paydays, they make me want to change my game style up and try to mimic there styles so I can become a winning MTT grinder