Philosophically speaking, how do I resist the urge of trying to YOLO all-in into lottery ticket puts to become rich?I can live well with the amount of money I have, but I want to be special. I want to have gotten some major prediction right. Get a leg up in life. Have a story to tell. Have people look up to me impressed, even if in actuality it was just a retarded bet that happened to go my way.Is there any book that can definitively ward off my lizard brain from such risk-taking behavior? The constant urge to go double or nothing?
>>25518140Sounds like you already know that it's retarded, so why don't you just stop entertaining those thoughts? Nothing you read will take you further than the first half of that, but you're already there.
>>25518140literally why would you gamble your well being away for a 0.001% chance at:>did you know i made like 100.000 dollars by investing in a shitcoin once?>wow really? thats crazy.>yea.Thats the story you want to risk it all for? thats the moment of glory you are working towards? Not like, i traveled the world, got into life-threatening situations, explored deserts, jungles, whatever the fuck kinda ridiculous adventurous stuff people like Werner Hertzog are up to? Alternatively, read like Schopenhauer or like some Buddhist texts or some shit i guess.
>>25518158Gambling, even on financial markets, is a loser's game in the long term. But in the short term? You can get lucky. One win is entirely possible. I've won before. You could at any time take your life's earnings, bet on a true coinflip and double them by the end of the day. You'd no longer be just an average Joe. It's like you added another lifetime to yours. The alternative is ruin. But during your worst days the insidious call of the YOLO can quickly become too much to resist.
>>25518191Can't relate. I don't really want anything.
Go ask his, they're the philosophy board.
