Beginners happiness, what is it and how to keep it
15 september 2020
We have all experienced or experienced beginner's luck at some point. You bring a friend go to the casino . He'd never been there before. Beforehand you told him the rules of roulette . Your story about strategy and the like went past him. You saw that, so you said ‘the rules of roulette are enough for now’.
The friend puts his first bNZDt on 14. You still want to stop him. But your friend insists and immediately earns 35x his deposit. That's an extreme example of beginner's luck. The bNZDt on it is out of luck for a while, but the third bNZDt earns the friend with a split 17x his inlay. That's when you tell him, ‘you've got a lot of beginner's luck.’
At the end of the evening, back to your home, you look back on a pleasant evening in the casino. You tell him again,’you had a lot of beginner's luck'.
Beginner's luck is an example of selective attention. Take a serious look back at the evening. Your friend won the first and third bNZDt with a risky bet. Somewhere in the middle of the night, he might have won two or three more times. But you yourself won much more often, and you even made a profit, while the friend hardly won back his initial capital.
Due to the fact that the evening began with the accidental gain, because that was it, you believe in the magic of beginner's luck with your friend. What comes into play is that ‘beginner's happiness’ has been accepted in our society as a really existing phenomenon. But beginner's luck does not exist, any more than beginner's misfortune or beginner's average luck.
When you understand the example above, you know that beginner's luck does not exist. It is a phenomenon in which reality is filtered in such a way that only happiness is visible. The friend, who immediately wins big in the example, makes you excited. The concept of’ beginner's luck'falls quickly and after that you only want to confirm that. In fact, fallacies occur that we have already cited on Architects Creative, for example, the confirmation thinking error when gambling .
Should we forget about the phenomenon of’ beginner's happiness'? No, because it does have attractive sides. We will first briefly look at the cause. We have to forget about coincidence. After all, the fact that the friend from the example immediately won is nothing more than an accidental favorable event.
Some time ago, a young skater was included in the squad for the world championship. He immediately became a champion. No one on the Editorial Board of Architects Creative remembers which skater it was. We suspect Bart Veldkamp.
Skating experts attributed his unexpected gain to his uninhibitedness. The skater hardly prepared. In Heerenveen he was still tinkering with his car a few minutes before he had to get on the track. However, after a number of games won, the pressure increased. He stopped tinkering with his car and lost his impartiality. Away beginners happiness, although, of course, he was no longer a beginner then.
An open attitude, according to psychologists, is the key to permanently experiencing " beginner's happiness." Gamblers who have experience, for example in the strategic game of blackjack, know the rules well and strategies have been developed , no longer play uninhibited. While the inexperienced beginner does not suffer from this yet. Without baggage, the beginner plays a game, making moves in which an experienced player scratches behind the ears.
But how do you, as an experienced player, maintain that open attitude, the necessary uninhibitedness. That's pretty tricky. It's not just your environment that plays a role. Also in your body there are often unconscious processes that inhibit you in your uninhibitedness.
Putting pressure on yourself is an important brake. You are a player with experience, not a beginner. So is something expected of you or have you convinced yourself of it. That pressure comes in all sorts of forms. For example, the part of your brain that makes decisions is blocked. You will think and reason less. You worry that you are making mistakes, which is why you are going to make mistakes.
An important difference from the beginner is also wanting to have too much control. This may be due to the pressure exerted. You focus too much on details that you usually don't pay attention to.
The first solution is to rely on your knowledge and experience, and the training you have had (as a result). Ronaldo is known to continue a certain exercise after training. While everyone is already in the locker room, he shoots at the target a hundred more times from a certain point. The precise movement to get the ball to a certain place in the goal is ultimately in his body.
During a match, he doesn't have to think about it anymore. He can rely on his preparation, experience and training. The only pressure may still come from the moment of the match; with a 0-0 score, his free kick naturally puts more pressure than with a sufficient lead.
With Ronaldo, we may see the beautiful free kick as a success-oriented body. But it is a mechanism of the brain. They remember the trained free kick as a subtle procedure in which the brain and limbs work together.
In everything we ultimately do based on knowledge, experience and routine, that procedural memory exists . So also with a game of poker , roulette or press the button of a slot machine . And in this there is a danger, if you want to preserve the impartiality of beginners happiness. As useful as that particular memory is, you will have to let it go.
In fact, as an experienced player, you have an advantage. You know many details of the game you like to play and may be aware of multiple play and deposit strategies. You can rely on that experience and knowledge, it will not be taken away from you if you play as a beginner. All you have to do is let go. Of course, that's easier said than done.
One method is forcing. Bet differently than you usually do, or take an unexpected game action. You'll see how refreshing that is. What photographers sometimes do is shoot from the hip without setting their camera. No attention to the rules around composition, aperture and shutter speed. The pictures taken are sometimes very surprising photos. you will see that forced deviation from your familiar playing style leads to new game ideas, new (roulette) strategies and perhaps a lasting happiness, like that of a beginner.
