There’s a question commonly asked within the gambling community from one player to another: “what’s your unit?” Your unit is defined by the amount of money you think in multiples of; if you perceive a thousand dollars as ten sets of 100 dollars, that makes your unit 100 dollars. In college, a twenty dollar bill is at least four sets of five dollar bills, and maybe even 20 sets of one dollar bills, if you remember that one dollar can buy you four packages of Nutty Bars.
The higher your unit goes up, the harder you are to please. If you were to sit at the blackjack table with $1,000 and win $10, chances are you’ll ignore it unless it happens 50 more times in pretty good succession, when maybe you’ll think about getting up and calling yourself a winner. This is the reason gamblers bet according to their unit. Professional blackjack books say the proper betting amount is determined by the starting bank divided by 30, which in the case of $1,000 would be $33.33 a bet.
Oh, one question left to answer. What is your unit? If you remember how many dinners and movies and tanks of gas and iPhone apps $1000 can but you, your unit is probably going to be $25, as in “I have 40 chances to win.” If you were to plop down at the table after a night of losing $50,000 and taking your last $1,000 out of the ATM, your unit isn’t going to be the same. It’s not going to be $25. It’s probably not even $100 or even $1000 for that matter. The unit is probably far too big to achieve any success worth appreciating given the relatively small amount of each bet.
I think the same question is true in the case of happiness: what’s your unit? If you take a look at everything around you, can you see how much there is to be happy about? And if you’re coming up short, could it be because you’re thinking in units that are too big for your bank? Seeing the things that matter to you as smaller and more abundant is a difficult task once you’ve visualized them as indefinably large and hard to count, but in the end, you’ll get more bang for your buck.
From
http://jhnmyr.tumblr.com/post/564586003/whats-your-unit
Thanks Amanda.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
How Much of Life Is Lost....
I find one of the hardest things for me to do is be nice. Is that strange? I consider myself a pretty nice person, but the second someone else flips on me- being mean, condescending, annoying, etc. I find myself wanting to give it right back. Kill them with kindness, kill them with kindness. I feel like, 'killing them with kindness,' takes a lot out of you though- wears me thin. Maybe that feeling marks the point where I've just got to move on. Separate myself. I mean appeasing others is no way to live for an extended period of time. Relationships have to be a give and take, and if there's too much demand and not enough supply, maybe that supply chain needs to be terminated. (Just reminded me of AP Econ. = ew)
I feel so rejuvenated by the nice weather, I think I'm really going to try and turn over new leaves, cleanse myself of all negative and stressful. Do 'me' for a while. It'll be interesting to see what this leads too...
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