You can’t fool your subconscious.
Huh-uh.
No way.
No how.
No matter how you might hide it from everyone else, your subconscious always knows – always.
I remember when I first started trading and I’d hit a decent winning spell. I’d start feeling like I had a good handle on it and was on my way.
But at the time I’d been making largely on luck, much more so than skill.
And every time I’d have a decent run and I’d get feeling a bit cocky, my subconscious will step in and have me hand it back – because I hadn’t really earned it.
Sound at all familiar?
One of the things I eventually figured out in the repeating the above cycle was that buying a new trading system doesn’t fix this kind of problem.
Neither do ‘trading psychology’ tricks, drills or subliminal gimmicks.
You see, I couldn’t fool my subconscious.
It knew that I still hadn’t acquired and developed the skills to be a truly proficient trader, to deal with the realities of trading.
It is an entirely different matter to know how to do it well.
And at the time, I didn’t even really understand what I needed to get good at, besides of course execution and sticking to my trading system.
That’s why I feel for the whole ‘Discipline’ fallacy, like most everyone else.
But it’s not a matter of discipline, it’s about becoming the trader with the skills, know-how, and tools to have the real confidence.
When I discovered and developed the skills to become a real professional, to be good at trading, but with a very conscious competence…
…that’s when things changed.
It was when I changed, not just picking up another tool.
When I changed, my subconscious knew it – and finally let me enjoy real success.
Only when I changed what I’d been doing, when I stopped looking for more tools and chose to become a more solid trader…
…only then did my subconscious stop sabotaging my efforts.
I’m sure the same is true for you.
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Cheers
Brian
