Probability is one of the finest concepts in the world of Mathematics. To a layman's eye, it talks about the outcome of a certain situation or an action. A coin if flipped ten times in a row has a equal probability of it landing itself on Heads or Tails.
Having this information in hand, if you still go for best of 3 or best out of 5 in your bets, you are procrastinating the acceptance of the odds .
Similarly, if someone were to tell you that this New Year, you are going to give up a certain food ingredient or a habit as a resolution. If the very thought of doing this scares you, you my friend have surrendered to the bigger daemon.
If you tell me that I shouldn't eat sugar for 30 days.. there are two ways my thought are going to be processed
It looks for ways to on how to make the my next coffee taste better. Identify the alternatives in my favorite desert
The thought of surrendering sugar, makes you go insane, like how can you even eat ice cream anymore what is your cake gonna taste like..
The former approach gives you the initial boost to atleast think of winning in life. The latter drags you back with an anchor so heavy, it could sink the Titanic let alone it float without a crash.
The food is one of the easiest examples as we all could relate, but the quadrant of life's has various topics to discuss . Money could be most common one, diet food, alcohol, social media..
The list as much as may seem long, the template is simple to tick-off/ achieve with a bit of customization. You template has to have a very easy question, "What happens when I <have no sugar in my diet..?>"
As you ask yourself that question.; Your thought process will be challenged to decide among option 1 or 2. This question, will start to work as your North star, as you start to think and answer the WH questions in your mind. You increase the probability of achieving those outcomes. (Positive or negative)
Master your Thoughts, Master yourself.
Quoting a line from the award winning track from ABBA The winner takes it all, the loser standing small
