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You're Chasing the Wins. You've Got a Lot of Bad Luck, Right?
I remember there was like a study that was mostly related to gambling, but it was mice and they put them in a little maze. The rat kept going back to get zapped until he died because he found cheese there. And essentially what they said was that is essentially how they compared it to like, you know, the gambling brain and how people think about gambling. You're chasing the wins. You sort of overgeneralize the lessons learned from the times you've won. Like beginner's luck can be detrimental. If you have some early luck and you believe that this is just the way it's supposed to be forever,. It can put you in a delusional state whereyou feel like I