{"id":25055,"date":"2020-11-04T11:28:50","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T17:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/blog\/?p=25055"},"modified":"2020-11-04T11:28:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T17:28:51","slug":"why-you-need-to-act-like-a-poker-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/blog\/why-you-need-to-act-like-a-poker-player\/","title":{"rendered":"R. Paul Wilson On: Why You Need To Think Like A Poker Player To Avoid Being Manipulated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
In today\u2019s world, we are surrounded by forms of\ndeception that work their way into every aspect of our lives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Corporations, institutions and politicians seem\nable to lie with impunity; new forms of technology open the door to potential\nthreats, and we are targeted from all sides by a constant flow of information\nthat\u2019s designed to influence or manipulate us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Worst of all, it\u2019s become so familiar to us that\nmost people can be manipulated easily by aligning with their biases or beliefs,\nopening the door to a new generation of con artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This may sound like a bleak outlook but if you\nwant to protect yourself, your loved ones and your interests you need to adopt a\ndefensive outlook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In life, you need to be a poker player.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Just like poker, in life you can\u2019t believe\neverything or you\u2019ll soon go broke and become an easy mark for anyone at the\ntable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Imagine if modern life was like a game of\ndeception and you\u2019re a step closer to what I\u2019m about to propose; a way of\ninterpreting the world around us in the same manner we would a poker game;\nwhere many types of player with all sorts of experience and all kinds of luck\nwill sit down and play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Life is a little different from poker, which is\na game where friends must become enemies across the felt in the name of\ncompetition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I believe life is (and should be) more\ncooperative and we should help and guide others when appropriate so I\u2019m not\nadvocating you act in life as you would at poker, where kindness can be\nweakness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Instead, I am suggesting you regard\neverything you see, are told and learn as you would regard information\navailable to you in a poker game. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n We all play with our own nuances but for the\nmost part, at the card table our type we can be identified with a handful of\nlabels and life is the same, though harder to read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In life, how we interact with others is\ndetermined by levels of trust that are dictated by society and social norms and\nthese mechanisms have been imported into the relatively new forum of social\nmedia and online communication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Unfortunately, human interactions online have\nbeen \u201cgamed\u201d and the result is a form of ideological magnetism that leads\npeople to self-sort based on biases that can be used to predict how people\nmight act or react based on their residing categories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As we have seen from firms like Cambridge Analytica, by manipulating the billions of people using services like Facebook, information-based campaigns can be used to turn the tide of opinion, challenge seemingly obvious truths and effectively influence elections<\/a> or world events. <\/p>\n\n\n\nDon\u2019t Believe Stuff\nJust Because It Aligns With Your Beliefs <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n