The ego will forget 999 defeats and remember that one game when it was able to win a game in spite of being 0-9 down. The memory of that one game keeps your false confidence alive.
Then you repeatedly keep slipping to 0-9 positions.
It is 0-3; you say, “Not yet too bad, I can win even from 0-9 position!”
It is 0-5, and you still refuse to wake up: “Oh, I can still do it!”
0-7, you are still unaffected, your confidence is still not shaken.
And now that it is 0-9, you say, “Ah, it is time for me to perform!” Unfortunately, it is too late to perform.
The deeper the loss, the more difficult is the recovery. But at the same time, the deeper the loss, the more heroic is the recovery. And because the ego is looking for heroism, it lets the loss happen so that it may get an opportunity for heroism. That opportunity is extremely costly.
