Ever heard of a bad beat? If you’re not a poker player, you probably haven’t. A bad beat is when a player with a dominating hand loses to a player with a weaker hand because they were dealt a specific card.
Most people think poker players remember the big hands they won, but it’s the opposite, they remember with amazing accuracy the bad beats. Go to any poker game, and it won’t take long before the bad beat stories come out.
Check out this video to see a perfect example of a bad beat:
https://youtu.be/PbYh2gSlHuM?si=MaIm3xHXje3pB4eG
The worst bad beat is like the video above, when the other guy needs one specific card on the river to win, because the odds of a player hitting the perfect card is only 2.2%.
I’ve played a lot of poker, and I can tell you a bad beat feels like getting punched in the stomach. Why does it hurt so much? Because, you’ve played the hand perfectly and now you have a 98.2% chance of winning, then the miracle card is dealt and you lose.
In other words, it’s not fair that you lost.
We don’t like it when life’s not fair but it’s a fact of life that’s as certain as water being wet. The sooner we as men come to grips with that fact, the less time we’ll spend being miserable.
There are actually 7 no-bullshit facts of life that all men need to come to grips with to avoid being miserable.
7 No-Bullshit Facts of Life
- You’re not the center of the universe
- There are no shortcuts to weight loss, getting in shape, getting out of debt, raising great kids, having an awesome marriage, or building a successful business.
- Life is not fair
- The government is not the answer to your problems. They can only provide a temporary, substandard bandaid.
- Nothing is free. If you didn’t pay for it, some else did, whether they wanted to or not.
- If you broke, you ain’t busy
- Every man must eventually learn how to solve his own problem
Those 7 facts are as certain as gravity, so learn how to leverage them to become the best version of yourself instead of wasting your life complaining how tough your life is.