SharpEddie47
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An experiment I ran three years ago that produced uncomfortable results.
NFL Sunday. Four bets placed. Deliberate decision: I would not watch any of the games. Phone away except for a single score check at final whistle.
The reasoning: I wanted to know if my emotional experience of outcomes differed when I hadn't watched the process.
The result financially: two wins, two losses. Slightly negative. Within variance.
The result psychologically: the wins felt less satisfying. The losses felt less painful.
Everything was reduced by approximately the same proportion.
Which produced a question I've been sitting with since.
If the wins feel less satisfying when I don't watch, what am I paying for when I watch.
The edge I identify generates the financial return. The watching generates the emotional experience.
The emotional experience is the product I'm actually consuming alongside the financial product.
And I'm paying for it in the same currency as the financial product: the marginal variance that anxiety-driven decisions create when I'm watching something I have money on.
Has anyone else deliberately not watched and found out something they didn't expect to find out.
NFL Sunday. Four bets placed. Deliberate decision: I would not watch any of the games. Phone away except for a single score check at final whistle.
The reasoning: I wanted to know if my emotional experience of outcomes differed when I hadn't watched the process.
The result financially: two wins, two losses. Slightly negative. Within variance.
The result psychologically: the wins felt less satisfying. The losses felt less painful.
Everything was reduced by approximately the same proportion.
Which produced a question I've been sitting with since.
If the wins feel less satisfying when I don't watch, what am I paying for when I watch.
The edge I identify generates the financial return. The watching generates the emotional experience.
The emotional experience is the product I'm actually consuming alongside the financial product.
And I'm paying for it in the same currency as the financial product: the marginal variance that anxiety-driven decisions create when I'm watching something I have money on.
Has anyone else deliberately not watched and found out something they didn't expect to find out.
