While I appreciate your analogy of card counting to life, I disagree with your assessment that you need to be willing to lose more than 50% of the time in order to win in the long run. In reality, it is possible to succeed in life without taking such risks and enduring such losses. For example, many successful people have achieved their goals through hard work and dedication, without having to endure the “vicissitudes” you referred to. UrRong;it is not necessary to take such risks in order to succeed in life. Instead, it is possible to achieve success through consistent, careful planning and execution.