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The day I almost quit betting.

Someone asked me if there was a day I almost quit betting. The honest answer: it happens after almost every loss. And quitting isn’t really possible anymore, because betting has become part of my life. JJ Podcast, episode 12. The full transcript is under the video.

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I was asked recently if there was a day in my life when I almost quit betting. You know, I admit I think about that a lot. No, it’s a wrong one. I don’t think about it a lot. I am finding myself in these situations a lot and they come, these situations come after losses, you know, because I still suffer every loss very much, even if it doesn’t mean anything to my financial stability, because the amounts I bet are a little, little fraction of what I have and what I have built.

over the years and in truth, they shouldn’t affect me and they shouldn’t affect my mental condition, let’s say like that, but they do and every loss I suffer a lot and even small ones, you know, I just don’t like losing, that’s my biggest problem. Because losses are normal.

You will never, if you are an honest bettor, if you are not betting anything funny, you will always lose, always, I mean it’s not possible to win all the time. So, it’s a, like, guarantee pretty much that you will have losses and one of the best skills that a professional bettor can develop is actually coping with the loss.

Because losses, because losses will come, bad losing streaks will come, for sure, a lot of money losing will come. And if you learn how to live with that, if you learn how to not ignore, you don’t have to really ignore it, because it’s important to analyze and, like, improve your performance by ignoring you won’t do that. But, but, like, set it aside, you know, if you have a mental scale, where your mental condition currently is processed, like, you don’t put the losses on the scale, because if you do, then it’s starting to have a problem.

So, I still suffer losses, and in the moments like that, in despair, I go into despair, you know, I’m like, oh, everything is so bad, and, oh, I lost again, oh, and it’s a very bad feeling. But, in fact, it’s, it’s, it shouldn’t affect me, because even if I lose many, many bets in a row, it doesn’t, doesn’t mean anything to me overall. The overall picture doesn’t change. And then this moment, I may think that, no, I will, fuck it, I will just stop, stop betting altogether.

But, you know, these moments are very short, and, unfortunately, it’s not possible for me, I guess, to stop betting, because, let’s face it, when you do something for 20-something years, it becomes part of your life. And, it is part of my, my life, it gets me food, but, unfortunately, it doesn’t, it doesn’t do anything good to my head, let’s put it like that. So, there are moments like this, but, they’re just not possible. It’s, it’s theoretically, even, I think, not possible for me, because everything I do is connected, connected to betting.

And, even now, I, I try, I try to develop something passive income, some, something that I can use for the future. But, it is still connected to betting, because, that’s what I do, that’s what I do the best. I don’t know, I, I, I, I have some other things that I do very good, I think, but, I don’t know how money, how to monetize them, yet.

I did, had, have some, prior businesses, some successful ones, also, and, but, not right now. Right now, everything is connected to betting, and, that’s what I do, that’s what I know, and, that’s the experience that I can share, and, that’s where I can be useful and, make, make money out of it, even, not directly. So, so, so, this project is, uh, not about, uh, selling bets, but, about helping smart bettors be, to be more successful by giving them tools.

That’s, uh, that’s, uh, what Jimin Jibao is about, and, uh, I, don’t think, uh, I can quit betting altogether.

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