Earth; the Fool's Gambling Theatre

By Angel Bahabwa

"Earth; the fool's gambling theatre" is a book about how to ascend to success easily and faster; the fool's way. For millions of years, human existence has survived on this earth through gambling maneuvers yet continues to silently condemn the very maneuvers that made us survive the hostility we have endured since human life existed.

 

The book will make you view the world as a theatre of gambling. Whether you like it or not; it is. To survive in this world and become super successful, you must have a gambler's mindset because this world is a gambling theatre.

 

Like any other theatre, it has its rules. You fail to observe the rules, you are kicked out of the theatre, or you play a lesser role. It needs the effort to become a person to watch in every theater and the more you understand the theatre life, the more you can succeed and start being celebrated. There is no exception to this theatre where we are all players.

 

The world where we are is a competitive place and it favors the person who knows the rules that govern this competition. By spending time to understand its dynamics, you save yourself time and pain in the trial-and-error method most failures opt for.

 

The book will give you a better outlook on all characters in this theatre; earth. You will realize that you are not alone in the game, all are but gamblers! They aren't aware of the outcomes of their actions but are striving to ensure that all odds are in their favor.

 

To succeed at anything in this theatre involves a lot of planning and execution of plans. Keeping an eye on the details is what gives the gambler an edge to succeed. Never take anything for granted. Every move you make therefore must be intentional and lead you to desirable destiny. All efforts must be directed at increasing the odds of achieving this destiny.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Angel Bahabwa
• Release date: Oct 27, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215089217

Angel Bahabwa

Angel Bahabwa is a motivational speaker, entrepreneur, education activist and social analyst. He loves reading and sharing knowledge with people. He has worked with various organizations in East Africa fronting the need for specialized education and has hosted several radio programs on social economic development.

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To Damaly Lucie Mwesigwa, the one person whose insights and discussions challenged me into writing this masterpiece. You always through your ways taught me that earth is a theatre but what you didn’t show was it was a gambling theatre!

PROLOGUE

In this gambling theater, man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, and what he will become in the next moment. For the same reason, every human being has the freedom and the capacity to change at any instant. How we approach, view, and contextualize our situation and what we tell ourselves it means, determines how daunting and trying it will be. Just because your mind tells you that something is awful or evil or unplanned or otherwise does not mean you have to agree. In this theater, there are many actors and directors whose sole reason for being is to direct us to the course of action that places us in their service. They try so much to direct us remotely, without noticing their actions on us.   

The way we look at the world changes how we see things. Where the head goes, the body follows. Perceptions precede action. We choose how we look at things. We retain the ability to inject perspective into a situation. Right actions follow the right perceptions. We are scared of obstacles because our perspective is wrong. A simple shift in our perspective can change our reaction entirely. Just because other people say something is hopeless or crazy or broken to pieces does not mean it is. We decide what story to tell ourselves or whether to tell one at all.

No one can force us to give up or believe something that is not true (such as a situation that is hopeless or impossible to improve.) They can throw us in jail, label us, or deprive us of possessions, but nothing will ever control our thoughts, our benefits, and our reactions. We decide what we will make of each situation. We decide whether we will break or we will resist. We decide whether we will ascent or resent. Through our perceptions of events, we are complicit in the creation – as well as the destruction- of every one of our obstacles.

This book is about the art of ascending from the bottom pits of failure to the peak of success. It will motivate you and enable you to start challenging yourself to do better than you have been doing. It is dedicated to changing your perception of your life. It takes you back to the principles that enabled our ancestors to survive and explore the principles that have enabled successful people to attain heights of their success. It will enable you to start seeing the world like a gambler. Viewing this world in the eye of a gambler will open the doors that have been closed on you.  

It’s not a what-to-do book though it offers recommendations its sole purpose is to motivate you to believe more in yourself and do more than you have ever thought of doing. These simple principles have been used by various successful people; you can also choose to use them. I have taught the same principles for so long on radio programs, workshops, learning institutions, and very many platforms and they have worked miracles in the lives of people and it has been their call to organize these principles into a book that forced me to compile the notes into this book. The principles are simple but their effect of them on your life will be far great than you can imagine. They will help you live above mediocrity. It all begins with our choice. The choice to change your basic philosophy of life, to view the world through the lenses of a gambler.

This book has remolded my philosophy and continues to shape my perception of this world. My renewed philosophy is that any job worth doing is worth doing well. I don’t believe in turning loose something half-finished and at this, quality is more important than quantity. It is your work and inventiveness, the thought you will have built that will expand and break the limits. Here, respect for competence and hard work is the decisive factor. This will enable you to conquer nature and your inner nature, the basic limiting factors in life. This will make you stop competing with other people as much as against nature and materials and rather compete with your own set standard of quality. You will start competing against yourself to better your scores.

In this theater, neither talent without instruction, nor instruction without talent can produce perfect results. For anyone aspiring for greatness should be a man of letters, a skillful draughtsman, expert in geometry, nor ignorant of optics, well grounded in arithmetic; he should know considerable history, have listened to the philosophers diligently, should be acquainted with music; he should not be ignorant of medicine, he should be learned in the legal experts and should be familiar with astrology and the laws of astronomy. Greatness is a product of learning and massive application of what is learned. To this, there is no shortcut. Success in this theater requires you to know every detail of the game of life so that your decisions are based on clear data. By reading this book to the end, you will have set your life on the journey to opulence and freedom. You will start seeing things as they are rather than the way you want them to be. 

In this journey you have chosen, you will meet many things, some will challenge you while others will leave you with a whip of joy. You will discover that what you thought was limiting you have nothing to do with your success. In this amazing journey, you will find out that success is like a shy sparkling princess; you have to learn how to court her while failure is an ugly bald prostitute bold enough to possess you without even your consent.

All you need is with you

What we think is what we experience

Many people have been brought to think that they are victims of external events and circumstances that are beyond their control. They think this external world is an objective reality that exists outside of and separates from them.

The gambler however sees things differently. The gambler knows that the external events and circumstances are an effect of a cause and that cause is his thought. This means that thought is the cause of all the events we experience in this world in which we live. In other words, our thoughts are creating our reality. So what we think is what we experience.

When we understand that thought is the cause that is creating our reality, we begin to realize how important it is to examine our thinking process. Since we are thinking most of the time, we are creating most of the time. Through our thoughts, we can create the reality of our lives but unfortunately, most people are not in control of their minds. We can conclude therefore that most people are not in control of their lives. That is why many people are living a life that is far from the life they desire and this is caused by the haphazard thinking that is creating their lives.

No one can think for you.

You are the only thinker in your mind which means that no one can think for you. No matter what anyone else says you must say or do, you can still think whatever you choose to think. Your ability to choose what you are going to think about is what makes you a free individual. If you couldn’t think for yourself, you wouldn’t be a free individual. No one can get into your mind and think for you. And since you are the only thinker in your mind, it is only you who can decide what you are going to focus your attention on which will in turn create your reality. 

You can change your reality by changing your attention.

No matter what your situation is, as a gambler, you can change it by changing your attention. Attention in itself is energy and it follows that what you focus your attention on grows. This means that you energize whatever you focus on. What you hold on holds on you.

Your mind will produce the reality of what you constantly think about. Your dominant thoughts will produce your reality. When you choose to focus on negative things, they occupy most of your life. If you choose to focus on cheap things, your home will be full of cheap commodities and the friends you will attract will be cheap too.

I say if you choose deliberately because you can control your thoughts. It is in your ability to control your thoughts though it will call for some effort on your side. Since you can control your thoughts, you can create your life by thinking creatively, thinking the thoughts that will build the reality you want.

The greatest discovery of all time.

The greatest discovery of all time in human evolution was I’m because I think I’m This discovery indicated that the human being got conscious of his existence. In other words, you are your consciousness nothing else. To understand this well, one must ask these questions do you exist if you are not conscious? Can you exist without consciousness?

If you are your consciousness then it follows logically that you must be and experience whatever you are thinking about. This implies that if you never focus your attention on something, that thing doesn’t exist for you! If you never focus your attention on something, that thing doesn’t exist for you can also be put this way, my problems don’t bother me if I don’t think about them or I’m so busy feeling good that I don’t have time to feel bad.

Therefore, no matter what your situation is, you can change it by changing the focus of your attention. Since your focus will energize the things you focus on, your choice of focus is very important. This is a law you don’t need to be lazy here.

It can well be put this way "you can’t be angry without angry thoughts first and neither can you be sad without sad thoughts first. Nor can you feel love and kindness without having love and kind thoughts. The chain of command is thought first, then the emotional reaction, and finally the physical reaction. You can’t have an emotion without a thought first and then a physical reaction.

What you think the world looks like, that is how it looks like to you.

Quantum physics has demonstrated that we live in and are part of one massive field of energy. Each individual is simply a focal point of consciousness within this field. This means that all creation is a vast field of energy. Therefore, life is what pops out of this field of energy because of the focus of our attention. It is hence the nature of our attention that determines the nature of our experience and since thought is creative, whatever you think the world looks like that is how the world looks like to you.

Everything you experience in this world is the result of your focus on your thoughts and how you understand the vast field of energy in which we all live, move, and have our being.

It should be clear by now that you have nothing to deal with but your thoughts if there must be any change in your life. If you don’t like the world you are living in, you can change that world by changing your thoughts. As a gambler, you must control your thinking if you are to control what you are manifesting in your life because all thoughts are creative. 

It’s not your circumstances; it’s your thinking.

If you took the time to understand how your mind works, you would know that it is not your circumstances that are victimizing you, but your thinking. A close study of the mind will show you that you are thinking all the time and that it is so difficult to stop thinking. As we learned, all thoughts are creative. This study should show you that your most important task and every mankind's most important task is to take control of their thinking process.

Truth be told, it is very difficult to stop your mind from thinking, and indeed you don’t need to change the situation you are in. If you tell yourself that you are going to stop thinking about something, what you are doing is focusing on that thing more. Let's say you want to stop thinking about a negative thing, you are not going to say am going to stop thinking about this but all you can do is switch your thoughts to something else. In other words, you are going to replace negative thoughts with positive thoughts.

The scientific way to deal with any negative condition is to build the opposite condition into your consciousness by replacing the old thought pattern with another one.

Prosperity thoughts come first before actual prosperity.

We have to focus on thoughts as our starting point to success. It is also important to know that no one will ever experience prosperity until he has built a prosperity consciousness. Prosperity mentality comes before the money in the bank. This tells us that all we experience are equivalent to our inner states of mind. It is to us to make sure that we have the subconscious mental equivalent of whatever good we wish to experience on the outer plane, period.

Therefore, all this subject of thought should only teach us one big lesson you must realize that you have within yourself all that you require. By properly taking control of your thoughts, you