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Our tendency is to continually overlook the reality of chance events like birth (sometimes referred to as the "lottery of life," "birth lottery," and/or "life lottery").
It's easy for us to believe that we're all in charge of our own destiny. That we are solely accountable for our own success and failure. That we could and should accept responsibility for our actions. But, as you'll see, things aren't always as cut and dried as they seem.
In reality, there may be significantly more we're actually unable to control than the opposite that we are aware of.
Lotteries are common in many countries today, and millions of individuals play 4D lotteries each week in the hope of winning a large sum of money and getting the 4D results that work in their favor. Lotteries frequently elicit the most enthusiasm from those who would least expect it, such as the poor and the uneducated.
We could laugh at their naivete, but if they had the insight and mathematical knowledge to understand how low their odds actually were, they'd surely never have attempted it."
You have a 1 in 14 million chance of earning the biggest prize. Naturally, we feel terrible for those who put so much faith in such flimsy aspirations. They're aiming at a speck the size of a pinhead.
But we're no better off. The Lottery of Life is a game that we don't even realize we're playing since we're not aware that we are. It's not only us who are holding tickets of various types, aiming for mathematical close-miracles – even though we think we're being sensible and sane.
There are two areas where this lottery-like conduct takes place, and they are related to one another: work and love.
If we had to paint a picture of a fulfilling life, it might look something like this: At an early stage in our careers, we choose just the correct field of work to focus on, veer off into new directions at the perfect time, and receive public acclaim, financial reward, and honor for our efforts.
Work is something we enjoy doing because it allows us to use our skills and talents in new and exciting ways. Once we've had several engaging and ardent relationships, we meet someone who completely understands us so well that we don't even need to use words.
We age gracefully, in good health, and with the satisfaction of knowing we've accomplished everything we set out to do. Our descendants look up to us and we occasionally serve as an eminence grise, quietly directing the way.
Such events happen approximately as frequently as winning the lottery. The surprising thing is that we may have invested in a modified version of this sort of hallucination.
We have no idea how unusual and bizarre it would be to spend ninety years on this planet without experiencing serious heartbreak or failure in love or at work.
Statistics are often misunderstood by our minds. We tend to overestimate the frequency with which certain events occur. According to our best guess, 50% of all new enterprises are a success.
Because of what we consume (watch or read), a part of the problem exists. Even if there's nothing nefarious going on, the media is constantly bringing out the weird and unusual, and as a result, we get the impression we're living in a different world from the real one we genuinely do.
Our mental model of how much happiness we can experience violates all the evidence.
We'd be less depressed about our own condition and accomplishments if we could understand what work and love were like for the majority of other people. And then we'd know exactly how - statistically speaking – weird and terrible our ambitions are.
To conclude that, in all likelihood, we wouldn't accomplish what we had planned for would be disappointing. Nonetheless, it would provide an incomparable sense of security and comfort. Having not won the Lottery of Life, we'd sense far more compassion towards ourselves.
Without being foolish, most of us believe that we could win the 4D Singapore jackpot or any other lottery, even if we aren't aware of it.
The criticism we've received is unwarranted. In order for us to achieve the success that we all desire, we need to feel sorry for ourselves for the great barriers that lie in the way of our accomplishments.