Gambling as a reflection of our personality

[Awaklara]

How about you? Do you think you as a gambling also reflects your personality outside of gambling itself?

I don't really pay attention to the influence of my personality on my gambling activities. It may be true that gamblers who have a patient and careful personality in their lives will influence the gambler in making decisions in their bets. Because the nature of the gambler's personality itself is brought to his gambling. But can gambling activities also affect or change the gambler's personality? It may be possible and felt by novice gamblers from the changes that occur, but not too significant. Except for the bad impact of gambling addiction.

[Davidvictorson]

How about you? Do you think you as a gambling also reflects your personality outside of gambling itself?

As an undergraduate I was taught that there are different personality traits. And these personality traits influence our behavior both covert and overture behavior. Gambling activities is all about behavior and in one aspect that personality traits in fluency are gambling behavior is in our gambling strategy. a person who is highly extraverted and high on openness to experience who would most take more risks in gambling. They will go outside the normal - betting with more they know they cannot afford to lose just to see if luck is on their side. This is one example of many.

[Popkon6]

I believe that every person enters gambling differently, but in this case, some people gamble to make money and some people gamble for fun. Those who enter gambling mainly to make money are the ones who lose and start gambling again and again after losing money. And later, after losing, they surrender at the last moment empty-handed, but this basically indicates a sign of addiction that hits the gambler very seriously in the end.
 So those who only gamble for fun are the ones who wait for big wins in the end, those who mainly lose more are the ones who mainly make more efforts to recover money. So those of us who are still involved in gambling should definitely follow this kind of thinking and gamble so that we can refrain from addiction.

[crwth]

It reflects what you have—knowing that it's how you react when losing and your risk appetite. A reserved person or someone with a reason wouldn't risk a lot of money, and a methodical gambler might gamble less impulsively. It still depends, but it could be an indicator.

[danherbias07]

Yes, I think so. It's not like we are making bad and good decisions just because we bumped into gambling, we have been doing that in our life for a long time which is why I think gambling can reflect the true nature of a person.

Easily irritated. That's me. When I lose just $10 in slots, I can easily get irritated and whisper words like "unfair" "robbery" or curse the game because of its hunger for my money as it eats away everything I have.
Well, that's me even when I was young, I could get annoyed with simple things and I can say it comes out when I gamble even though I managed to control that emotion for a long time, or ever since I got kids.

[Kelward]

Our characters is who we truly are and it manifests in the personality that we portray outside, so it's true that our gambling habits are reflections of our personalities. Somebody who is disciplined will naturally have self control when they're gambling, they'll be responsible gamblers and will hardly become addicted to gambling. On the other hand if a gambler is not a disciplined person naturally, it'll be easier for the person to become addicted because they lack sell control. We should know that people can make a decision to change their personalities, it just requires discipline to change into what you want, so a gambler can choose to become disciplined and gamble responsibly, he just needs to work on it.

[kotajikikox]

Competitive spirit as well, I remember on sports personalities in Michael Jordan, yes the GOAT himself. But even outside of basketball, he will always play and bet in golf as been reported before.

Why the mention of golf? Haha is it because of how ‘calm’ and ‘relaxed’ golf seems to be compared to basketball that is full of adrenaline and intensity? But I know a lot of intense athletes go play golf as well. We can’t be intense all the time. We can’t be on full throttle we also need to go on breaks and calm down. We need balance in our life.

How about you? Do you think you as a gambling also reflects your personality outside of gambling itself?

Definitely. How one person manages to control their gambling habits is a reflection of who they are outside of gambling. If someone is greedy or selfish, this would bleed into gambling and he might lose. If someone is more collected and not easily swayed by emotions, he might be able to bring home some winnings.

[Yamifoud]

How about you? Do you think you as a gambling also reflects your personality outside of gambling itself?

I disagree in the reason that not just because I got hooked on gambling, it means I’m foolish. Let’s be real—sometimes we make bad decisions or form poor opinions. It happens. But there’s a saying: people change after learning from their mistakes. Unless, of course, someone chooses to let their life out of control without any regrets—that’s a different story.

I actually have a friend who’s addicted to gambling, yet he’s still doing well and has no financial problems. Meaning, despite his addiction, he is able to manage to keep his mindset firm. I know this is a rare situation because, for most people, gambling addiction does a serious impact on their finances.

[Zlantann]

How about you? Do you think you as a gambling also reflects your personality outside of gambling itself?

There have been arguments within the psychiatric and psychological field about the existence of addictive personality. There is a claim that people with this personality are too weak to resist any form of addiction they are exposed to. I don't know if this is accurate but I have come across people who are easily hooked up to some activities. They tend to always go to the extreme when they are introduced to an activity.   

But I think we can always control ourselves regardless of our personality. Claiming that your personality is the reason why you cannot control ourselves shouldn't be an excuse to chase losses and gamble more than you can afford to lose. There should always be a limit to everything we engage in because there is no excuse for failure.   

[Don Pedro Dinero]

There have been arguments within the psychiatric and psychological field about the existence of addictive personality. There is a claim that people with this personality are too weak to resist any form of addiction they are exposed to. I don't know if this is accurate but I have come across people who are easily hooked up to some activities. They tend to always go to the extreme when they are introduced to an activity.   

I have long believed that certain types of personalities tend to one type of addictions more than others, as in drugs, people who normally tend to be bored tend to end up more hooked on stimulants such as caffeine or cocaine, while people who are nervous tend to the opposite, looking for more soothing drugs. But gambling, I would say, can affect any personality type.

[Sim_card]

We are the ones to control ourselves on everything we do and not allowing our activities to control or take over our mindset. Gambling personality is on gambling and personality outside gambling is also a different thing because if I am gambling for fun and do it once in a while, I don't see how that will affect my personality when I am not gambling. What I know is that, it is your personality outside gambling in real life that can affect your gambling personality.

[sompitonov]

I would say that we reflect our lives in gambling. Even if we are modest in life, or rather pretend to be, but in our souls something completely different is going on, but we keep ourselves under control. Then when we come to gambling, nothing holds us back and we show our true face. That is why modest people can make wild bets. It seems to me that when I was withdrawn, then in gambling I found something that I could do whatever I wanted, I don’t know if this affected my future life, but now I have become very open in life, but I place bets on the contrary modestly and do not allow myself any antics and I am very happy about it. In short, everything turns out the other way around for me, lol.

[Gozie51]

How about you? Do you think you as a gambling also reflects your personality outside of gambling itself?

Our action is a reflection of who we are. If you are the risk taker as a person then you would naturally see yourself going the extra mine in your gambling journey too and a fearful person always get scared to risk even in the face of winning games.

They say a fearful person does not get rich and truly, most people who have won big in gambling are those who are not fearful, those who take risk. So it is about who we are, those that are more reserve do their gambling in a reserve manner and they believe it is gradual for them to get to their big win but an aggressive personality believes he needs to be fast about it and takes heavier risk.

[TravelMug]

I would say that we reflect our lives in gambling. Even if we are modest in life, or rather pretend to be, but in our souls something completely different is going on, but we keep ourselves under control. Then when we come to gambling, nothing holds us back and we show our true face. That is why modest people can make wild bets. It seems to me that when I was withdrawn, then in gambling I found something that I could do whatever I wanted, I don’t know if this affected my future life, but now I have become very open in life, but I place bets on the contrary modestly and do not allow myself any antics and I am very happy about it. In short, everything turns out the other way around for me, lol.

Yes, most likely it would be the case for some of us here. Nevertheless, we really don't need to complicate things as we all know that life itself is like a gambling to most of us. I mean there could be people who get lucky, got a decent job got a good paying job. Or there are people who gamble life being a entreprenuer?

How many times that we heard about it? Like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs early on when they don't have money or at least started borrowing money on friends and gamble on their project that become successful? So that's it, life is really gambling and it could reflect our personality, on how resilient we are and how we are going to bet on something that will chance our lives for the better.

[Strongkored]

How about you? Do you think you as a gambling also reflects your personality outside of gambling itself?

It could be true, because those who do not like risks will only gamble normally, meaning they will play when they have money and whatever the result, they can stop, but those who like risks will find it quite difficult to stop and will always want to increase the amount of bets to get more even though they are using money that exceeds their limit.

[Cryptmuster]

I was just have this thoughts, as we have been saying, to be not addicted to gambling, we should have self-control. But as much as we know this advise or saying, there are still a lot of people falling for gambling and I just thought that it could be their personality. I mean if they have the correct decision making, then no one will fall for being addicted. And then there is also the case of high risk takers vs those people who doesn't like high risk and just play for the normal.

Also the reflection of losers, there are those who readily accept the fate when we lost even big money and then think of just taking a break first or just go walk out and then sleep it over. And then we have individuals who can't accept losing, and so they deposited for more and experience the same defeat.

Competitive spirit as well, I remember on sports personalities in Michael Jordan, yes the GOAT himself. But even outside of basketball, he will always play and bet in golf as been reported before.

How about you? Do you think you as a gambling also reflects your personality outside of gambling itself?

I think it depends on the character of the people, some people are simply unable to stop because they cannot accept defeat. The reason is that they do not know how to lose, are not ready to admit that they are not able to beat the casino and are ready to continue, perhaps thereby only increasing the overall loss, which could have been avoided if they could stop earlier.

There are those who manage to win back, or at least part of it, then they have hope that this time everything will be different and they will be able to win, because they have become more experienced players. This is all part of the game, and if the player continues to do this, then he simply likes it, someone competes with the casino, and someone with himself.

[TopTort777]

I disagree that gambling is a reflection of our personality. I might be a calm grey church mouse, but a aggressive gambler that plays all-in only. And how come gambling reflect something, when many gamblers prefer to hide behind black glasses? Kids are reflection of our personality. By any large it does not matter how you raise them and what you tell them, as they will grow up similar to you anyway. Educate yourself, and kids will be your mirror reflection.

[EluguHcman]

In a simple term, gambling on it own is a gaming activity then it players has the decision of selfness control while gambling.
On a contrary, it is a habitual act of it that gets players to be addicted to it and also on the other side of the players to take control of themselves while gambling so they don't get addicted.

On a serious note, my personal lifestyle has a reflection to my gambling style because I am personally always careful so that I don't regret on my engagements and I don't like to cause public alarm/attention that may bring disrespect to me.
So I have always have that habit of self coordination up to my gambling life.

[ultrloa]

How about you? Do you think you as a gambling also reflects your personality outside of gambling itself?

I guess not, Gambling doesn't  reflects anyone's personalities since there are just scenarios that we cannot control especially if we experience addiction.

That's why its been called as a disease since people experiencing it committing those mistakes in life that they didn't done before.

But there's a chance to correct everything if addiction will be handled well. People affected on this need proper support so that realization comes up with them then backed with good medication can turn back everything in their life to normal again.

[20Bet]

I was just have this thoughts, as we have been saying, to be not addicted to gambling, we should have self-control. But as much as we know this advise or saying, there are still a lot of people falling for gambling and I just thought that it could be their personality. I mean if they have the correct decision making, then no one will fall for being addicted. And then there is also the case of high risk takers vs those people who doesn't like high risk and just play for the normal.

Also the reflection of losers, there are those who readily accept the fate when we lost even big money and then think of just taking a break first or just go walk out and then sleep it over. And then we have individuals who can't accept losing, and so they deposited for more and experience the same defeat.

Competitive spirit as well, I remember on sports personalities in Michael Jordan, yes the GOAT himself. But even outside of basketball, he will always play and bet in golf as been reported before.

How about you? Do you think you as a gambling also reflects your personality outside of gambling itself?

I believe gambling doesn't reflect our personality outside of it. For me, as an amateur gambler who plays just for fun, I see it as a way to get rid of boredom without risking too much. I set limits and stop when the fun ends or when I feel that luck is not on my side. As you mentioned, others react differently, like chasing losses or taking big risks (this is what call wisdom) I wouldn’t call this a competitive spirit because responsible gambling isn’t about competition Well, it’s better to let our personality shine in other areas of life