Snake Doctor

I had an epiphany of sorts today.
For the life of me I couldn't figure out how I've been losing money consistently at poker....even though I study hard and usually play a solid game.

Then today it hit me....its the blinds.
I get stupid when I'm playing in the blinds. I call too many raises, I hang onto middle or bottom pair because for some reason I get paranoid like everyone is bluffing and trying to steal the money I had to put into the pot. (For instance I seem to put everyone on AK when the flop is T72 rainbow and figure my J7 is good)
I'd be willing to bet that if I could take away all of the small and big blind hands I've played in my life I'd be up a substantial amount.

So my question is....is this a common problem for poker players?
How do you play from the blinds?
Should I start playing only hands that you would normally play from early position and muck the rest? (of course you'd take a flop for free with any two cards but then muck em if you didn't hit the flop in a big way?)

I think if I can patch this hole I might start seeing dramatically different results.

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