Subconscious Causes of FAILURE

Arkady once told me a story about one of his first trips to a casino. As expected, he took a friend with him so that he could take him away at the right moment. In fact, he needed a friend on this trip so that he would have someone to show off in front of. It is always nice to emphasize your superiority in something over your neighbor. And so they went to a gambling establishment located five minutes' walk from their house. Arkady decided to test himself "in floor exercises." There were two roulette tables in that casino: one accepted bets in rubles, the other - in dollars. The young men went to the currency table. Having exchanged 200 dollars for the game, Arkady increased the number of chips in front of him spin after spin. At the same time, he did not forget to make so-called oral bets. When you throw a large chip with a monetary denomination to the dealer and name the sector that you want to cover with this bet. The names of the bets come from French words, and their pronunciation in the company of people who are not initiated into the subtleties and peculiarities of the game of roulette increases the authority of the person using them in the game, and in combination with a careless throw of a chip - produces a magical effect on the audience. When Arkady counted his chips, the amount of money was equal to 1100 dollars. The young people decided to take a break and celebrated the victory with delicious alcohol. After resting and discussing the twists and turns of the game, Arkady decided to try to play again and put 200 dollars into the game ... But he was unlucky. Then he changed another 200 dollars, and they also migrated to the dealer's fleet. This is where Arkady needed a friend who, under no circumstances, agreed to give more money (knowing that it could break up, Arkady gave them to his friend for safekeeping and asked not to give more than 400 dollars). And since making noise and arguing loudly in gambling establishments is considered bad form, the young people went home in an excellent mood. Lying in bed, Arkady could not fall asleep. He kept going over the winning bets in his head over and over again and was convinced that he was very good at "free exercises". The only frustration came from the 400 dollars he had lost in vain. The young man reproached himself for his inattention and excessive adventurism. This was how he explained his weak-willed loss. Of course! If a person is able to win almost 1000 from 200 dollars, then that says something! Couldn't he really win some 400 dollars? Easily! You just need to get up, get dressed and take a 5-minute walk... And here Arkady is again standing at the same roulette table, having exchanged the magical 200 dollars for the game... His friend is not around, he, like all normal people, prefers to sleep at night... But fortune is clearly no longer interested in Arkady. And after a short struggle, the money in chips migrates to the roulette fleet. Then follows a trip to the cashier, new bills are taken out of the wallet... And so on until all the winning 700 dollars are gone. But our hero has really gotten going. He goes home and comes back with money. Then he goes home again for money... and so on several times. When the coffers of the motherland are empty, Arkady goes to bed and falls asleep with a sense of duty fulfilled... The question arises: why, having lost 1000 bucks, did he fall asleep easily and naturally, but being in the winning 700, he could not? The answer is very simple: greed kept him awake… He was incredibly sorry for the 400 dollars, without losing which he would have enjoyed a complete triumph. But greed breeds poverty. And this is another lesson that Arkady remembered forever. But not all people are able to learn from their mistakes. This is one of the reasons why the casino thrives. The next day, Arkady and his friend, with whom he went to play, were sitting in a circle of friends and drinking beer. His friend talked about yesterday's trip with bated breath, never ceasing to admire Arkady's intuition and his ability to guess not only the winning sector, but also the number that came up…

Let's consider one of the mechanisms that generate various kinds of failures, the collapse of promising undertakings, bankruptcies, the breakdown of business and personal relationships and many other problems. Each of us, when planning, concluding a deal, starting any business, strives to take into account all possible obstacles that stand in the way of achieving the goal. And often we successfully achieve what we want. But when problems arise during the implementation of plans, we look for answers where it is easier to look for them and few people think about the possible subconscious sources of these problems. These unconscious obstacles cannot be controlled, and the results can be most destructive. One of the main mechanisms of the unconscious that creates unexpected obstacles is called the "Goal Fork" (GF) and it can occur in two versions. The first version. Let's analyze it using a simple example: a person has an intention to satisfy his hunger. From his experience, he chose sausage as an object for satisfying this intention; a desire to eat sausage appears in his consciousness. If a person is distracted from his intention to eat, for example, the boss gives him an urgent and important task that will occupy his entire consciousness, then this person forms a second intention - to complete the task as best and as quickly as possible. He switches to performing his duties. Ho the primary intention will continue to exist until the end of the cycle - until the need for food is satisfied, and specifically with sausage. Any intention strives to be realized; even if it is “forgotten”, it organizes life situations for its creator for its own implementation . Every intention is like a living organism that strives to achieve its goal and does not calm down until the goal is achieved. If such unrealized intentions accumulate in sufficient numbers, they significantly reduce the overall energy potential of a person. In this case, the “Goal Fork” is manifested in the fact that one of the goals dominates over the other and suppresses it; as a result, the goal to which the person consciously gives preference is not provided with a sufficient level of energy due to its bifurcation between the goals. This situation can be compared to a computer running many programs at once, – the speed of information processing decreases and the probability of failure increases. In human activity, such a situation brings difficulties in concentrating, errors in performing actions and industrial injuries. In addition, such unfinished cycles tend to accumulate in the unconscious like toxic substances.This explains the syndrome of “emotional burnout” of a person at work – unfinished cycles are no less destructive than emotional stress. As a result of the accumulation of unrealized intentions, a person’s faith in his own strength, general tone of mood and physical strength decreases – he is constantly overcome by fatigue, irritability and doubts, self-doubt and mistrust of others. The second option of the “Goal Fork” is to create a counter-intention – an intention opposite to the original. There are two ways for a person to form a counter-intention. The first way. By setting a goal, a person starts a kind of game in which, from his point of view, there are only two outcomes - winning or losing. As a result, a person feels like a winner, a successful person, or a loser, an unsuccessful failure. If instead of the expected win, a person gets a loss, then he needs to balance this failure with another win. But the new game will be somewhat simpler than the first (approximately 90% of the difficulty level of the initial one). There is a psychological law at work here: with failure, the level of aspirations of most normal people decreases somewhat. Having won in this game, a person can set difficult goals for himself again. If he again does not achieve success, then he has to start a new business to balance what was not achieved. However, each time the difficulty level of the new game will be lower than the previous one (70%, 50% and even 0%). Thus, a person comes to the impossibility of achieving important goals for himself , therefore, he will approach each new activity with the expectation of failure, which increases the probability of failure many times over. This means that he has formed the postulate "I cannot achieve this." In psychology, this state is called "learned helplessness." At the level of self-awareness, it manifests itself in low self-esteem and lack of confidence in one's abilities; it is even more dangerous when a person tries to "keep up appearances," but unconsciously he is already prepared for another failure and therefore receives it. As a result, a promising and successful person turns into a loser who despises himself and envies others; and the person blames not his unconscious impulses for this, but those around him, circumstances, fate, etc.

The second way. If a person initially has low determination, events develop differently. When the set goal is not achieved, such a person, along with the postulate “I want and can do this”, develops an equally powerful postulate “I can’t/don’t want this”. This counter-postulate is similar to the conclusion of the fox from the fable, who, having failed to get to the grapes, decided that she didn’t really need them: “The grapes are sour”. Of course, in real life, the formation of a counter-postulate does not occur as a result of a single failure, but in the course of a series of such failures. Later, these postulates begin to work like scales. If a person starts a new business, sets a new goal, then the first postulate “I can do this” initially has an influence. But as we move towards the goal, the second postulate “I can’t” is activated and various internal and external obstacles begin – ailments, unjustified reactions and emotional breakdowns, depression, etc. Then, seeing how difficult it is to achieve a new task, this intransigent person may retreat, refuse to achieve what he has planned. And here the first postulate “I want this” comes into play again, which again makes a person strive for the original or similar goal. So he will rush between the postulates, like a pendulum in a kind of fork, indicating the limits of its oscillations. Probably, it is easy to recall examples from life when people cannot arrange a quiet family life: they are not happy without each other, and, having met, soon come to scandals. Or when an entrepreneur starts one business project after another, losing interest in the almost completed business and enthusiastically getting involved in a new job. In this case, there is no point in talking about success in business or in family life. In addition, such people do not find peace themselves and do not give it to others. Moreover, even deeply experiencing their throwing, they cannot do anything about themselves. In extreme cases, this leads to such frequent fluctuations between postulates that a person becomes absolutely incapable of external activity. He vegetates in eternal indecision, unable to concentrate his efforts on achieving a goal, either at work, or in studying, or in choosing a life partner, or in raising children, or in the area of political preferences. Such a person will only be grateful to someone who will remove the “burden of freedom” from him and will decide everything for him, that is, he turns into a puppet in the hands of others. You can diagnose the appearance of the “Goal Fork” in yourself or another person (business partner, family member) by two main signs. Firstly, there is a need to overcome yourself and suddenly emerging unfavorable circumstances, to make an effort. C.G. Jung called such a coincidence of external circumstances with a person’s internal processes “synchrony” . Secondly, as a result of such an increase in unforeseen problems, negative emotions arise or intensify. At the same time, a person often does not understand the real sources of his condition and begins to look for the reasons for this outside himself – blaming others, getting irritated and “taking it out” on his subordinates or family members, getting offended, trying to find relief in heavy smoking or alcohol, etc.

The human biofield is its energy-information space or energy-information structure (EIS). In the EIS of each person, any information is contained in the form of energy wave formations called "spikes". At the psychological level, these spikes are perceived as thoughts and images (visual, auditory, sensations, smells, etc.) and the emotional states of a person associated with them. Thus, the content of an image or thought is information, and emotional reactions form the energy basis of a spike. If we consider a person's EIS as a set of energy-information programs, we can see that almost any obstacle seen by a person as a problem, ailment, inability, bad habit, etc., can be changed. It is much more effective to turn to the original source in order to cure the root of evil itself, rather than chase its ever-growing shoots. With the "naked eye" one can only observe the external manifestations (symptoms) of the VC and assert that it exists in a given person. But it is impossible to find out what exactly led to the formation of this unconscious mechanism in the energy-informational structure, wandering in the darkness of subjective guesses. A number of experimental studies have proven that the problem is truly removed only when the root cause that led to the creation of the postulate is found. The postulate is stored in the human EIS in the form of a spike, the discovery of which leads to the person realizing this case (information), and all the energy stored there becomes available for further use to achieve consciously put forward goals. By going through the chain of events associated with this postulate, we return to the person a huge potential of energy along with confidence in their abilities and a real ability to achieve what they have planned. On the other hand, having identified the mechanism of the "Goal Fork", you can use this knowledge in your own interests. In particular, knowing that postulates determine the entire nature of human activity, one can purposefully neutralize counter-postulates of failure and create postulates of success. No one would want to have among their employees or colleagues, even if an involuntary, but still a saboteur, unconsciously slowing down, or even leading to the complete collapse of promising undertakings. It is unlikely that "administrative measures" taken after the warehouse has already burned down will be effective. In addition, this "saboteur" may well be a valuable specialist in his field; parting with such an employee is unprofitable, especially if a lot of money has already been invested in him. A more promising option is to eliminate in his EIS the postulate that leads to incorrect and dangerous actions. Thus, instead of a dismissed "enemy of the organization" (everyone knows the consequences of the disclosure of commercial secrets by dismissed employees or the intrigues of programmers offended by the company), we get a valuable and promising employee. In today's information-saturated world, the winner is the one who knows how to manage energy-information structures. In today's world of increasing competition, success in business depends on the speed of implementation of promising developments, making the right management decisions, including in situations of uncertainty and time pressure.

Experience is good only in two cases: 1) The player has felt the REAL CHARACTER of a particular game, has caught real stable patterns and turns. 2) The player has rehearsed his line of behavior, strategies, capital management, has experienced various turns and dispersion jumps so much that he plays WITHOUT EMOTIONS. Like a robot. And equally smoothly at any level of credit: at least $10 at least $100,000. In these cases, EXPERIENCE is on the player's side. If experience only gives millions of contradictory options - it's a bag.

Franky wrote:

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Poker players enjoy going over past games, hands, and discussing strategies. Why not try to bring a similar approach to online casino gaming? It's silly to think that winning at a casino depends only on your luck. I've been recording all my games on video lately, so there's an unimaginable amount of material for analysis. You must admit that your choice of games and bet sizes depend on your psychological state, which definitely affects the outcome of the game. I've never won when I played with my last money. Some kind of pathological greed kicks in right away. And even if I won solid sums, in that state I almost always lost every penny. Those who are passionate about the game will probably agree that the situation is painfully familiar. This Russian "waiting for a miracle" has killed more than one gaming budget, I'm sure. Bets "on luck" begin, without taking strategies into account. All on Zero! Or something else... In other words: if we bring our problems to the casino, hoping that some financial or personal problems will be solved there, then we are terribly mistaken. The casino, like a catalyst, raises all the dregs and filth from the bottom, and it is better not to drink this cocktail. Under adrenaline, people become inadequate: reactions are like children's, there is no critical perception of the game situation. When we plunge into this state with shattered nerves, then expect trouble. In short, I wrote a lot of letters, so it is worth summing up. You should not play when your head is filled with everyday or financial problems, and you should definitely not play with a limited bank, especially - with the last ones!