The Corner of 8th & Insanity
Today’s Mantra:
I AM becoming a more loving,
aware and empowered version of myself.
6a - Yin Yoga & Breath Work
7p - Yoga Nidra & Meditation
8a - 1030a Trade & Write @ Desk
1030a - 1230a Weight Room - Chest & Shoulders
Warm Up
3.5mi Walk @ 15%
Push Ups 3x25
Ab Wheel 3x15
Dumbbell Press (4x8)
Incline Barbell Press (5x5)
Overhead Dumbbell Press (5x8)
Arnold Press (3x10)
Dumbbell Lateral Raise (4x15)
Reverse Grip Cable Fly (3x TF)
Dips TF
1230 - 130p Lunch
130p - 3p Trade, Read & Write
3p - 330p - Decompress
415p - 530pm MTB Ride @ Carver H w/ The Old Man
730p - Dinner
8p - Walk w/ Tuli ♡
9p - Rest & Recovery
“Let yourself be silently drown by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
Sun in Libra. Moon in Taurus
The Corner of 8th & Insanity
You’ll never miss what’s meant for you. What’s truly yours doesn’t slip away—it circles back when you’re ready to hold it like a someone who’s earned it. Life isn’t in a rush to hand you power before you’ve proven you can carry the weight. The Universe isn’t punishing you; it’s preparing you.
You haven’t fallen behind. You haven’t failed. You’re exactly where you need to be to sharpen the blade. Every setback, delay, and detour is part of the conditioning—the forging.
Keep showing up. Keep trusting the process. Keep believing in your own timing, not the world’s. What’s meant for you isn’t behind you, and it’s not lost—it’s being built ahead of you, piece by piece, shaped by your discipline, your struggle, your patience.
When you’re ready to meet it as the man you’ve become, it will meet you with the same strength.
So breathe. Stand tall. Stay the course. What’s meant for you is waiting at the horizon—and it’s not going anywhere.
The Inner Game of Trading: Unmasking Your Tendencies
Every trader believes the market is their opponent. But the real battle is internal. The market doesn’t care about your feelings, your goals, or your dreams—it only mirrors your relationship with uncertainty, discipline, and truth.
What separates professionals from the perpetually stuck isn’t intelligence or even experience. It’s awareness—the ability to see your own mind at work under pressure, to recognize your emotional habits before they hijack your process. Trading is a feedback loop that reveals your deepest tendencies. The chart isn’t just price action; it’s a psychological mirror.
Below are the archetypal patterns—your hidden operating system. Recognizing these tendencies is the first step to mastery.
The Most Wounded Traders → Project Their Pain onto the Market
When you’re wounded, you externalize responsibility. You lash out at “algos,” “manipulators,” or “fake breakouts.” You build a worldview where everything is against you—because it feels safer than admitting you’re afraid of your own inconsistency.
The truth is, the market is neutral. It’s pure feedback. When you see manipulation everywhere, it’s often your unhealed frustration speaking—the parts of you that can’t yet accept imperfection.
The professional reframes: every wound is data. Every emotional spike is a signal to pause, not project. Your job is to understand the trigger before it controls your decision-making.
The Most Fearful Traders → Try to Control Every Variable
Fear creates tension. And in trading, tension is death. You try to control everything—the setup, the market timing, the outcome—because deep down, you can’t tolerate uncertainty.
But control is an illusion. You can’t control what price does; you can only control how you respond. Every attempt to eliminate risk is an unconscious attempt to eliminate growth.
Fear-driven control turns into paralysis, micromanagement, and over-analysis. The antidote is trust—trust in your edge, in your preparation, and in your ability to respond to what is, not what you wish it to be.
The Most Jealous Traders → Compare Instead of Learn
Comparison kills clarity. When you measure your progress against someone else’s PnL, you stop focusing on process and start focusing on ego.
Jealousy stems from the false belief that someone else’s success takes something from you. But trading isn’t zero-sum in the psychological sense. Their gain doesn’t diminish your path—it exposes what you haven’t yet mastered internally.
Your progress curve is your fingerprint. No one else’s discipline, drawdown, or breakthrough can be replicated exactly. True mastery comes when you replace comparison with curiosity: “What can I learn from them that I haven’t integrated yet?”
The Loneliest Traders → Drown Themselves in Noise
When you’re disconnected from self-trust, silence feels unbearable. So you seek constant stimulation—YouTube videos, Twitter threads, Discord alerts—anything to avoid stillness.
But stillness is where intuition develops. Every great trader learns to sit with themselves long enough to hear the subtle voice of inner data—the gut sense refined through thousands of trades.
Noise numbs that intuition. The loneliest traders crave belonging but reject solitude, unaware that true connection to the market begins with connection to oneself.
Unplug. Study. Reflect. The answers are never in more noise—they’re in better signal.
The Most Bitter Traders → Reject Help and Dismiss Kindness
Bitterness grows from betrayal—by the market, mentors, or themselves. It’s the hardened shell built to protect fragile self-worth.
When you dismiss kindness or mentorship, you’re really saying, “I can’t stand being reminded of what I’ve given up on.”
The most elite traders remain teachable. Their egos don’t need protection because they’ve separated self-worth from performance. They understand feedback isn’t personal—it’s information.
If you find yourself rejecting advice or brushing off encouragement, it’s a sign your ego is defending a wound, not strength.
The Most Authentic Traders → Admit Mistakes Without Shame
Owning your mistakes isn’t weakness; it’s calibration. Authentic traders treat errors as data points, not confessions.
Every mistake you deny remains a blind spot. Every mistake you own becomes a stepping stone toward unconscious competence.
Mark Douglas often said: “You don’t need to be right; you need to trade your edge.” Authentic traders understand this deeply. They accept that error and imperfection are built into probability. What matters isn’t being flawless—it’s being fluid.
The Most Confident Traders → Uplift Others
True confidence is quiet. It doesn’t seek validation through flexing wins. It expresses itself by helping others rise.
When you’ve conquered self-doubt and internal chaos, you no longer need to prove anything. You can give freely because you aren’t operating from scarcity.
In trading, this looks like sharing process, encouraging new traders, or simply holding composure when others panic. Confidence is energy conservation—less reaction, more direction.
The Most Creative Traders → Embrace Uncertainty
Uncertainty is where creativity lives. Every edge was born from curiosity—a willingness to explore the unknown and test hypotheses others ignore.
The rigid trader fears uncertainty and overfits systems to feel safe. The creative trader leans into it, knowing that markets evolve and adaptability is survival.
Innovation happens at the frontier of chaos. If you can emotionally regulate in that space, you’ll always be one step ahead of the herd.
The Most Fulfilled Traders → Give Without Expecting Return
Fulfillment in trading isn’t about more money—it’s about more meaning. When you’ve transcended ego-driven goals, contribution becomes natural.
You mentor others, document your journey, or share lessons freely—not because you need applause, but because giving reinforces mastery.
Ironically, that detachment from outcome creates better results. The trader who gives, wins twice: once in growth, and once in gratitude.
The Most Resilient Traders → Turn Pain into Wisdom
Resilience isn’t about never breaking; it’s about how quickly you rebuild.
Every drawdown carries emotional debris—frustration, regret, self-blame. Most traders carry that pain forward, embedding trauma into their future trades. But the resilient trader extracts the lesson, then lets the pain go.
Pain is information—proof that something in your system is misaligned. Whether it’s risk sizing, discipline, or expectation, resilience comes from integration, not suppression.
Your scars become your roadmap when you face them consciously.
The Most Loving Traders → Protect Their Energy Like Capital
Love in trading isn’t sentimental—it’s discipline. It’s refusing to let emotions bleed into your process.
Setting healthy boundaries means knowing when to step away, when to rest, and when to say no. It’s respecting your mind the same way you respect your money.
You can’t pour from an empty account. Emotional capital is your real edge—preserve it, and performance compounds naturally.
The Most Free Traders → Live Aligned with Truth
Freedom in trading isn’t achieved by account size; it’s achieved by alignment. When your behavior, beliefs, and goals are in harmony, your decisions become effortless.
Most traders chase freedom through financial outcomes. But freedom is internal—born from radical honesty with yourself.
Do you actually follow your rules? Do you truly trust your edge? Do your goals match your behavior?
Living aligned with truth dissolves resistance. The market stops being a battlefield and becomes a mirror of your own evolution.
Mastery as Integration
Jared Tendler teaches that emotion and performance are inseparable—your patterns will repeat until you resolve their root cause. Mark Douglas taught that probability is psychological, not just mathematical—you win by mastering perception, not prediction.
To trade at the highest level, you must do both:
You must understand yourself like a performance psychologist, and trust the market like a philosopher.
The market doesn’t punish or reward—it reflects. The more self-aware you become, the more accurate your reflection gets.
So ask yourself:
Where am I projecting blame?
Where am I seeking control?
Where am I still driven by comparison, fear, or noise?
The answer to those questions determines your next breakthrough. Because every chart, every trade, every tick… is simply a mirror showing you who you are becoming.
LIVE FEARLESS, NOT RECKLESS.
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