Rogerio, I think the critical aspect of what you said is “let go of my old set of beliefs and replacing them with more direct non-judgmental experiences.” The more I am able to allow direct experience, the more creative and open I am to what actually IS! I have been moving from one ideology to another most of my life…and as I let go of them I find myself more creative and at peace. This works for me in trading and my larger life. Thanks for pointing this out.

Ben, excellent point. So many traders start out without the “proper form” and that gets built into their trading habits or as we at Mind Muscles say “NEMES” or neuro meta structures. These habits then become a problem because it is difficult to know what behaviors keep us from the goals and we have a problem of we don’t know what to change or improve. What if we were to start with best practices, down to the details? This has a lot of potential for rapid growth.

Loved the side by side comparison between Combat and Trading processes. Right on!

On a side note, it’s delightful to see your open-mindedness approach to life. It really inspires me to let go of my old set of beliefs and replacing them with more direct non-judgmental experiences. Something I can apply to my trading for sure.

Jim, excellent observation. One theory on loss is that in our hunter/gatherer stage, it took far less energy to KEEP your hunt, than hunt again. So our brain delivers an extra shot of pain if we lose our game to encourage us to spend energy keeping the results of our hunt.

In trading, like hunting for game, we only are successful some percentage of the time…and our brain reacts like a hunt…giving us a shot of pain if we lose. There are exercises that create work arounds, such as a coin flip game with a slight edge that can help create the muscle memory that traders need.