You Can’t Stop Your Brain from Predicting.
Human brains predict. In fact, we constantly anticipate in order to perceive anything.
Leaning into Desire
Ignore those who say you shouldn’t have desire. You should, you can, and you can use desire to achieve what you want. Take the desire and ask yourself “What would I need to do IF I were going to actually achieve this?”
THE Y#PS: Superimposing the Past Over the Present
Issues like these happen when something from the past gets superimposed over the present.
Only 9 Home Runs: Breaking Through Self-Imposed Ceilings to Realize Our Full Potential
Sometimes, we limit our own potential. So how do we overcome these self-imposed ceilings? First, we need to create awareness around self-limiting beliefs.
Owning Your Negative Emotions
Fears, frustrations and regrets can illuminate things we need to know. Itemizing feelings actually dissipates their unpleasant energy and in turn opens up pathways otherwise hidden. Admitting to shades of these "negative feelings" REDUCES the chance that the feeling gets in your way.
Understand and Eradicate the Mysterious Riddles in Your Trading
What phenomenon does this partial quote describe? “...people all of whose human relationships have the same outcome: such as the benefactor who is abandoned in anger after a time by each of his protégés, however much they may otherwise differ from one another, ...or the man whose friendships all end…
The Very First (and I what I thought would be the last) Words I Wrote on Trading Psychology
Shull's first article "What Would Freud Say? Stroll Down Freud's Mental Path to Profits", December 2004. When I wrote this I had NO idea whatsoever that I would ever publicly write or say ANOTHER word on the psychology of trading. It was just an idea I had based on re-writing…
ReThinking Trading Psychology 101 (version 2)
Originally posted on Business Insider, April 17. Conventional wisdom in trading psychology used to depend on two primary tenets – discipline and ‘control your emotions’. But that was before neuroscience started putting traders, poker players and other risk-gamers into brain scanners. Now that we know that all decisions depend on…