The addictive mechanism is 'adding insufficiency'.
Here, it implies adding, with usage examples: adding cruelty, inflicting punishment.
Addiction is the character for 'hidden' with a 'disease' radical. Many people do not know that the character 'hidden', besides being obscure and concealed, inherently carries meanings of pain and poverty. The added radical emphasizes this aspect even more. Therefore, the meaning of the character for 'addiction' is an unknown lack.
I use the term 'lack' instead of 'insufficiency' because people often only feel that they lack something after becoming addicted, but cannot clearly identify what they are dissatisfied with.
This is also why some people make a fortune while others go into debt in cryptocurrency trading.
In summary, people with an abundant inner world will continue to make themselves prosperous, while those with a poor inner world will continue to make themselves impoverished.
Remember this sentence and make sure to value it more every day. Only then will you gradually discover its true value in life.
So why do some people have an abundant inner world while others have a poor inner world?
This question is also easy to answer; it’s just a layer of window paper, but many people will not think in this direction throughout their lives.
The answer lies in people's acceptance of the system, their attitude towards superiors, and their understanding of forces beyond their control.
For those addicted to trading and gamblers, their psychological drive is to express their resistance to the unfairness of the system with a desperate attitude.
The reason is that they do not accept that the market and gambling are forces beyond their control. Or subconsciously, people feel that forces beyond their control are worth fighting against with their lives.
It's like your enemy is very skilled in a field you've never encountered, and after realizing this, you fantasize about defeating them in their area of expertise as a newcomer. Subconsciously, you want to completely eliminate their advantages and psychological edge, but if your conscious mind does not recognize that such a resolute strategic goal is unfeasible, your attention will fall into a trap.
This means that you spend a lot of time and energy trying to solve a question you got wrong during an exam.
This means that you are still struggling for the person who can find the answer to be smarter, and feeling proud of your own answer. The true top student calmly tells the teacher that their question is wrong.
The scary thing is that there is no teacher in this scenario; this question was posed by you using clues. When a top student tells you that this is not the correct question, you cannot accept it, cannot admit it, and have to ridicule the top student’s incompetence and cowardice.
For those addicted to trading and gambling, the root cause is the desire for a reverse flow attitude.
This is hard to change; building an attitude is a complex and multidimensional process that involves various aspects of human cognition, behavior, and emotions.
Experienced traders and gamblers know that winning is actually not difficult, and not losing is not impossible.
The most deadly aspect of gambling and the market is its entertainment value.
I have taught many people; it's not that I can't teach them, but they know themselves that their approach is not a winning gambling strategy, and they willingly lose.
The root lies in this attitude; if this attitude does not change, you will start leveraging in spot trading. If you don't lose at 20, you'll go for 50; if you don't lose at 50, you'll go for 100. Whatever limit the platform offers, you will naturally want to experience that limit. Even if the platform doesn't offer a guaranteed dead end at more than 20 times, you will have played through all the questions in futures, and you will still want to add difficulty by playing options, because your core behavior enjoys the sense of disadvantage this system brings you.
Under this premise, no matter how much you learn, it is useless because your purpose in learning is not to gain the advantages that knowledge brings, but to welcome more bizarre experiences of failure.
It's like those particularly torturous games, where the enjoyment for players comes from dying over and over again, thereby exploring the joy of discovering the path to victory. Their goal is not to win, but to anticipate unexpected failures and the sense of value generated by those failures. In this process, winning evokes the least emotional feedback.
If you could chart attention and past positions, you would find that the attention corresponding to profits is very low, as it should be, while losses receive full attention allocation. Your trading history is like a collection of mistakes, and the questions you answered correctly receive none of your affection.
Such people often despise rules, resist authority, and evade advantages in life.
What should we do?
Engage in self-dialogue, discover your unresolved pain, and soothe and heal it.
Specifically, everyone has their own mental knots. I don’t have universal strategies, but a common clue I can offer everyone is:
People cannot live in evil thoughts; they must have positive thoughts, give themselves identity, power, and advantages, and enjoy them. You must enjoy the scenario of the strong bullying the weak to walk the right path. Those who fantasize about overthrowing, subverting, meddling, and seizing power, engaging in futile resistance, are all evil thoughts and misguided paths.