2. Know that our brain’s survival instinct always pushes us toward the negative
The most significant aspect of our brain’s survival instinct is that it always pushes us towards the negative. Why?
When the brain is on survival mode, it does not pushes our instinct to negative, infact it will give us hope to strenthen our state of mind and not get crazy in times of depression. I think you are confused about this thing since your statement are messed up.
Always remember, that at the end of the day, our brains are built to help us survive. So emotions are always stronger and more difficult to control in the negative because while we know Chat GTP isn’t the Terminator, our brains see Chat GTP as the sabretooth tiger we had to run from when we lived in caves and hunted with spears.
Care to elaborate?
Those endorphins tell us, “Do it! You’re going to be rich!” So, of course, we do it and then, when the 49ers beat the Cardinals by 30 we fall into a survival depression because we realize we needed the money we bet to pay rent.
Doing something like the above doesn’t mean we have a gambling problem. It means we have to understand how our brain works. Then, we have to realize that our brain doesn’t understand things the way our mind and consciousness do.
And the story you stated when done once and not in a regular basis, it does not tell that the person is a gambling addict.