Topic: Do You Believe That Reading People's Bad Experience Will Help You - page 5. (Read 541 times)

If you are a responsible gambler, this will be nothing to you. It is people that see gambling as a means to make profit that might get scared of such news because it is a warning to them that gambling irresponsible will lead to regrets. On the other hand, a gamble addict will not bother about such stories because he thinks that he will be able to recover his loss by allowing himself to be controlled by his emotion and will ignore whatever he hears or reads. For the addicted gamblers, it is only when they have made up their mind to stop gambling that they will stop or when they have learnt a hard lesson.

Many cases of various negative impacts from other people's gambling activities have been studied to increase knowledge so that you are not one of them. You have only taken one case of gambling related to loss of control or emotional gambling, but other cases include interpersonal problems with partners and friends, and cases of gambling addiction have psychological and mental effects. We can learn from many experiences to take anticipatory steps for ourselves to prevent the bad effects of gambling.

Many things are discussed on gambling boards regarding news about gambling experiences from outside sources or experiences from forum members which can be used as lessons to be careful when gambling. The more things you know the more you will gamble responsibly. .

There's always a says that said "do not wait for what happened to others to happen to you before you start leaning". Meaning you have to learn from what happened to others in order for you not to fall prey any time when such is approaching to you, hence with the experience of other people you can control your habits from what has happened to other people. Any responsible and learned gambler doesn't always want to gamble to get addicted for people around to start noticing they are addictive gamblers.

Yes, I believe that, because to become a better person in doing everything, be it in a business and whatever it is, even gambling. then we are required to be able to learn and evaluate from every experience and be it an event that we have experienced or an event that someone else has experienced. So that with this can allow us to always be careful in doing everything including gambling. and with this caution will make us always alert and always prepare all forms of anticipation to prevent all the bad possibilities that will befall us. and as it is said in a proverb, "Prepare an umbrella before it rains" and now the rain has started to approach you, are you just going to stand by without doing any anticipation so that you don't get caught in the rain ..?

And also it could really be able to make you avoid on dealing up on something which you do know that it would really be giving out that bad results or outcome on which just like been most people been saying that
it wont really be that necessary for you to experience those unfortunate things before you would really be able to make out some adjustments on which you could eventually make out that adjustment without needing to experience for yourself and we know that there are really things in life on which we do really encounter up conditions or situation on which it might look something new for us. We do really get easily having that curiosity
and we are really that bound to test it for ourselves. It is really just that there are people whom do really love on taking risks and making some involvement for the sake of feeding up their
curiosity and doesnt mind whether it would be ending up positive or negative.

Bad experiences is normal but its not something that necessary that you would really be needing to experience for yourself first before you would be making out adjustments.
You could eventually be able to avoid things on just simply reading up someones condition and assess whether you should proceed or not.

I don't think it will help me in any way. If it's about bad experience from a platform, then I think it will help me. But personal experiences, grievances, and frustrations? That doesn't really add anything to my gambling experiences. Will it deter me from gambling knowing that other people have worse fates than me? I don't think so. Most of these people who have lost a lot of money in gambling didn't know the word 'control,' and will not stop from gambling until after their last penny has been spent trying to take back what they lost in gambling.

Everything in moderation is okay. People who don't take things in such tempo are those who are bound to get defeated by something that they thoroughly enjoy.

I can tell you that it doesn't work. People who add these pictures to cigarettes are grasping at straws, hoping that if they can save 1 out of 100 people it's still worth it, but that's all they're going to get with these pics. I have some friends who smoke and they all have these packs of cigarettes with pictures of cancer patients and they still smoke them. They ignore the pictures and go on like they used to.
The willing will find a way to climb a mountain. The unwilling will not, even if you make stairs for him all the way to the top. For this reason I doubt reading about other people/s experience will help an addict quit, unless he really wants to, but in that case he'd be able to do it even without all the reading.

Of course it helps reading other people's experiences. This is the whole idea behind reading books. You read other people's opinions/experiences so you can understand the matter even better. Some people don't follow this idea though. They prefer to experience it themselves instead of reading texts and while this has an advantage (it makes you understand the bad experience better) but the disadvantage is equally great because you have to pay for this bad experience. (it often means you'll lose money) We read books to avoid paying a high price for the bad experiences. (a book usually consts $10-$20) Getting the experience is a greater teacher than reading books but it also costs a lot more. How many times have you read articles telling you that the martingale strategy isn't working? Probably many times. And what did you do? I tried it anyway and lost money. You too probably.  That's where reading texts fail because we want to pay for the experience because it is a better teacher.

um, i'm not sure i'll give a good answer but i think some people use gambling as a means of entertainment, even though they spend or lose a lot of money from the gambling they do.  anyway, if it is damaged by smoking, actually the shape can be seen with the eyes because it is a disease, but if it is damaged or destroyed due to gambling, it cannot be seen directly with the eyes, the effect is direct poverty.  After all, gambling is embedded in our DNA, only a few people will definitely become corrupt or addicted to gambling, so spreading other people's experiences about the bad effects of gambling is ineffective.

Depends on a certain person because there are ones who would really be having that kind of reaction and there are ones who dont really care at all even if they would really be seeing others people unfortunate conditions.
Whether we are speaking or talking about gambling then it would really be just the same. Somewhat it is really that part of human instinct and behavior that whenever we do see something on others condition
then it would really be normal for us to have those kind of impressions and thinking that we should really be avoiding it. If ever you would really be tending to have those kind of engagement
then you would really be definitely be trying out to minimize or simply you would really be that completely stopping. It would really be that depending on a certain individual as i said earlier.

reading or hearing or even witnessing the pain that other people have had or are going through because of gambling will help a lot of people to be more careful with gambling, and of course many people are stubborn, they always think: "this won't happen to me" and continued abusing the game and later destroyed their lives. and they will blame the games, but when in fact the games, the casinos are not to blame. The only people to blame are people who don't gamble responsibly. I believe that in all the countries on this forum there are cases of car accidents involving people who were driving the car while under the influence of alcohol. Every day we see news about car accidents in which many people die

But even though we see many people dying every day due to driving under the influence of alcohol, many people still go and drink a lot of beer and then drive a car. people simply ignore the many deaths, people simply ignore the laws and continue driving under the influence of alcohol. with gambling it's the same thing, casinos try hard to comply with the laws, they put up TOS and yet people ignore all this and create accounts even though they know they are underage

other people know that the money they have is not for them to gamble, yet they take the same money and go play at the casino, after they lose everything they blame themselves and others blame the casino. something meaningless. I've seen cases of gambling addicts who canceled their casino account and started playing again and lost, and blamed the casino. It's a fact that most people don't listen to. no matter how dangerous and sad and disastrous what they see, they will still do the same thing

I understand that people learn differently; some learn from the experience of others while some only learn when they have their personal experience.  Whichever case, the experience of others is a wonderful instrument for anyone venturing into gambling.

Just like academic knowledge are predominantly the experience of others, shared gambling experience can influce the decisions and approach of others. For instance, some people have shared some tips here like taking a break after a major win; others can easily integrate this into their gambling decision because they have known the consequences of not doing that. Indeed, there are many ways to benefit from the experience of others as regards to gambling.

Having knowledge about what you are going to do and what are the things you have to face as consequences will definitely be a positive thing.It can be acquired in two ways either learning from your own mistakes or mistakes from others and the latter comes at no cost so its an extra benefit. I am not sure it will not eliminate the risk of addiction because it's subjective the individual's mental strenth but its good to have something better than nothing.

I believe this will really help. Do you know that most people only know about the positive side of gambling? They don't really know about how people get addicted, lose their properties, change their mindset, and become very obsessed with gambling.
 
If a memo about how gambling can affect someone negatively can even be made readily available, like what your country has made the cigarette companies do, it will help enlighten young gamblers on the part that they should follow and how to set up a good working betting plan with the mindset of not seeing gambling as a source of income, as most people fluently gamble winnings online as part of the things that have made them successful.
 
Most people are good at learning from others mistakes, and it helps them to set their own part towards not repeating the same mistakes that have been done by others, so such stories, especially from the mouths of those who have experienced them, can be some sort of inspiration for others to learn from.

Sometimes people always think about seeing their experiences outside the consequences of gambling who have to lose savings funds with their livelihoods, but it will be difficult if someone starts gambling with curiosity, maybe at the beginning they are normal but if they can't control it then they will lose their responsibility for gambling, back to themselves even though they have seen the consequences of others with their suffering sometimes it is not cared about by themselves.

Like cigarettes that have a warning on the packaging about the suffering that will be experienced if you are addicted to cigarettes, but still people ignore it so it is difficult for them even though there is a warning in it, this also applies to gambling.

If that would have as devastating impact to cost to society and health, then it would be possible that your (and my) government would took take similar approach.
But you don't get lung cancer from gambling. That doesn't mean that government wouldn't combat against it in some way, but i don't think it will be such a vivid attack on morals.
Most likely it will be more subtle, giving help instead of judging.

And i think that biggest problem they see in it, is possible tax evasion, so they just want to track your money in more effective way.

To me I think it will, let’s say that a beginner starts to read about how those that have been gambling for a long time started doing something’s that eventually led them to become addicted or unable to control their bankroll and soon spent their savings lavishly on gambling; or how they started gambling regularly to the point that they could no longer do without gambling.

If a newbie that actually learns from what they read comes across such life experience article it will be difficult for them to fall that same thing and if per adventure they start doing it unknowingly to them once it’s pointed to them by other they’ll be able to stop because they already know what lies ahead of them if they continue, while for them it might just be another fairytale and won’t practice any safety tips from those articles which means such articles will help some and also be of no use to some.

that is so true. look at those smokers who continuously buy pack of cigarettes even if there are so horrible photos in those packs. and so reading bad experiences owed to gambling won't deter these gamblers to gamble. maybe, personal bad experience can alter the gambler's lifestyle like his loved ones are slowly drifting away from his life or a gang is after him because of bad debts in gambling.

But this action does not stop people from smoking.  This remind me of what I saw this morning while walking home, I saw a man carrying a box of cigarette with a label of "smoking can cause death".  But still that label does not stop stores from selling cigarette and at the same time smokers still continue to smoke.


Reading and learning from bad experience of people will not stop a person from gambling but I think it will have an effect on how a person approach gambling.  With the knowledge on how a person got addicted, gambler can determine if they are getting addicted or not and they can stop at the right time avoiding gambling addiction. 

Aside from that learning the mistakes of other gambler make a person avoid that mistakes which can have a better result.

I don't believe that gambling is a bad thing because I see it as a form of entertainment. But if I saw gambling as a passive income model, I would say that it is a bad thing. I think it's all about how we see it, so it doesn't bother me to read about other people's bad experiences. The pictures on cigarette packs don't bother me either. I don't think life is black and white. There are also gray colors. And sometimes the gray colors are more intense and inclusive if you evaluate them correctly.