Trading is a tough game. It’s inherently simple but, for psychological reasons, it is very hard. You wouldn’t get paid the big bucks if it was easy.
As we all know, emotions are complex experiences. An emotion involves thoughts, sensations, physical afflicts, colorations of the mind, and, how well we recognize them as they arise in the present (and diffuse them) depends on our level of awareness.
We humans like to think of ourselves as self-governing, free-willed beings, set apart from other animals by our capacity to choose and to reason. Yet watch people (or even yourself) closely and you will find that we are more instinctual and a lot more like other animals than we care to think.
An interesting experiment was conducted in the 1950s by a scientist named Curt Richter. In that experiment, the man took a dozen domesticated rats and placed them into jars half filled with water.
Let me begin this post by saying this: A resounding Yes! You can grow a small account into a bigger one. But there are some things you don’t want to be naïve about.
Fear of uncertainty and of a possible painful future: it often stops us from accomplishing great things in our lives.
But I think that fear is often crippling because most people don’t understand risk. They might think that they do, but, in actuality, they really don’t. They only understand it in a kind of loosey-goosey way, but not in a deep, experiential way.
In 2006, a dear friend of mine died in a car accident. A few days after that tragic event, I submitted my resignation letter to quit my job.
Quotes, man. I love them.
Excerpts, proverbs, quips, riddles, koans, aphorisms, limericks, snippets, and lyrics— I’m not the type to discriminate. I love them all.
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