How can you tell a gambling addict from a gambling professional? The level of delusion. The addict is mired in it, he ignores the many failures in his path and ‘feels in his bones’ the win in the next big hand.
The gambling professional, on the other hand, barely dips his toe in the water of delusion. What he knows in his bones is that he’s studied the game, he has a strategy, he has weighed his wins and losses realistically and can almost predict the outcome of any game. The professional uses this understanding to move forward, to hold or to fold. The addict knows only one trajectory, forward -- some people call that ‘driven,’ ‘passionate,’ ‘committed.’ But without a reality check, the addicts’ forward trajectory can only lead down the road to desolation.
The point is that if you’re pursuing something the trajectory of which is predicated solely on ‘what you feel in your bones,’ I’d recommend an environmental assessment. Without some anchor to reality you could be chasing an illusion through delusion.
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