Why We Can't Stop Gambling
The Psychology
Your brain is playing tricks on you. It desperately wants you to believe that the best place for your future is to continue gambling to make back your money, even though statistically this has never worked before. The proof being, right before a gambler enters a casino, or opens his broker, and then bets it all on red or goes all in placing a crypto/options/cfd/daytrade position. The thought in their mind doesn’t say “Statistically speaking you’ll lose a lot of money by the time you sell” or “This has ended badly all previous times, now will not be different”.
Paradoxically, it says the opposite. “This might be my big win!”, “After this trade goes perfectly, I can post this trade on my stock forums, twitter and discord server, I’ll look really professional and get followers!”, “There’s the pattern I learned about on that one youtube video! That means it will go up for sure! RSI is overbought, now I can sell! This company’s PE is 300, that’s an easy short!”. These are the positive, optimistic thoughts that fill the mind of a gambler before he enters his casino, whether that is a traditional casino or a modern one under the disguise of a stock broker. And of course, statistics rarely lie, the house always wins. This person walks away with a big loss not even an hour later.
Now emotions run high, but for some reason so does this person’s optimism. They lost a lot, but instead of going into the defensive, they become more offensive. “What if I bet what I have left, then if that goes good I can make back my money.” Another trap. Of course we all know how this story ends, even though this person themselves can’t admit it because their mind is compromised already. We fast-forward and a revenge trading session has been forcefully concluded. The person ends their day with 0 money left. He then spends his months working at a job he can’t focus fully on due to his mistakes, he gets his salaries and uses that to try and make back his money. Of course we all know how this ends. Fast forward all the attempts to make back his money, and he finished a full year later with 0 again.
Does God hate this person? Is being rich just not meant for this person? How will they ever get their money back? The answers are: no, God also loves this person despite their mistakes. Being rich is meant for everyone who acts smart, and yes, this person can make back their money and much more through adopting the mindset of a succesful turtle. Slow and steady wins the race. Get rich safe.
Let’s think back to the person from the story. When was the best time for him to quit and focus on long term safe investing instead? You may get different answers depending on who you ask, but the common theme you will find is that the best time to quit for this person was always in the present moment or in the past. If at any present moment he took the brave step to say “I quit, I refuse to follow this path anymore.” he would still have time to rebuild into a life he’s proud of.
An ignorant counter argument may be: “But how can he rebuild with 0 money? He lost so much he should focus on making it back somehow, and the quickest way is through high leverage bets. 2 quick all in wins and he’s back in business!” — Another trap. Start rebuilding after the first year. Wait no, why not start the month before? Wait no, why not start when he left the casino the first time? Wait a minute, why not stop before he started revenge trading? Or… why enter the casino or place that first trade at all?
Despite a very likely statistical outcome of failure, the person in the story did not know for certain what his future would bring. Despite how statistically improbable, maybe this time he would actually win. That is what he thought each time before placing his bets. So the reoccuring theme to succes was always for him to stop during the present moment. The best time for this person to have stopped gambling was always the same second he breathed air. And the same goes for you reading this. Being late doesn’t exist. The only thing you need to be on time, is to stop now. No questions asked, no excuses thought of. Let me help you quit.
House Always Wins
You don’t need to have technical knowledge of all the math that goes into a casino’s business model, or all the complicated options greeks or crypto/stock algorithms that power how the markets move. Without this knowledge, you can still understand the simple fact that: If it was easy to win, none of them would exist.
A product where the consumer is likely to succeed and take money from the business is not a profitable or sustainable business model and therefor cannot exist. It is that simple. This is the main reason why getting rich quick is impossible. If it was possible and likely for a business to lose money through (modern) gambling, it would not survive, therefor it does not exist in our reality. So this means that if you choose to follow the “Get rich quick” path, you are doing business with a person whose business model relies on you losing in order for their business to survive.
Why would you do business with such a malicious company? On the other hand, the richest people in the world hold the majority of their wealth in stocks. They profit off of stocks increasing more and more in value. They could be wrong in their timing, or in their assessment of a specfic company out of the many they own, but the trend stays the same. As long as those top companies keep making more money (which they are quite good at), you buy more of that company. It’s simple. And that way you, and the people you do business with, are on the same page.
The Turtle Solution
If you compare the two of you, you and the casino, vs you and the broader market. It is clear that the version of you who has the casino as their partner cannot win the 2 vs 2 battle against the version of you that has the broader market as their partner.
You can not win with a malicious partner, whose business model relies on you losing when you are up against 2 business partners (You and the market) who both work in cohesion and want their stocks to go up by buying more. It is like hoping to win a 2 vs 2 tug of war battle, except that your partner is kicking you in the balls every time the referee isn’t looking while the 2 opponents are in perfect cohesion screaming “One! Two! One! Two!”, meanwhile your partner is laughing as you’re crying from pain.
It is impossible to win this way. But like an abusive relationship, you think you can fix them. You cannot, as they don’t want to be fixed. As a matter of fact, their survival relies on not being fixed. Taking your money is every casino’s business model which they need to survive.
Which partner do you want? The saboteur, or the partner that helps you and synergizes with you? If you want to get far in life, you have 1000 more tug of war battles ahead of you. Can you really survive mentally and physically with the saboteur as your partner? Well, perhaps you could kick them from your team and keep playing alone, but can you really win a 2 vs 2 tug of war tournament by yourself? No, it is time to quit all delusion. It is impossible. You need a good partner if you want any chance to win the majority of your next 1000 matches and that’s what we will offer.
We want to change your life for the better in the same way a father disciplines his child in ways he doesn’t understand yet. We want you to rebuild your life into something you’re proud of. We know, that after all your pain and suffering, you likely can’t do it alone. We are here to help you. Be open to our help and heal together with our community. We want you to feel the love you deserve.