The Corner of 8th & Insanity
☼ Today’s Mantra☽
I AM choosing to be peaceful
and focusing on solutions.
Love fills me and surrounds me.
Love inspires me and guides me.
Love directs me and protects me.
I AM living from love.
4a Yin Yoga & Breath work
430a Yoga Nidra / Prayer
5a - 730a Weight Room - Heavy Back
Warm UP
- Walk 3mi @12%
- Weighted Pull ups (4x8)
- Cable Wood Chops (4x8/s)
- Barbell Rows (5x6)
- Face Pulls (3x15)
- Dumbells Rows (4x6)
- Barbell Curls (Straight Bar - 5x8)
- Lat Pull Down (Neutral Grip - 3x15)
- Cable Curls til Burnout
745a - 830a Breakfast & Family Time
830a - 12a Trade & Write / @ Desk
12p - 1p Breathe, Read & Lunch
1p - 3p Trade & Write
3p - 8p Family Time
8p - 9p Walk w/Tulip
9p Rest & Recovery
“The man who loves only love-givers is a merchant of hearts, buying affection with affection, but the man who loves the loveless becomes rain, falling on thorns that will never bloom. This endless stupid beautiful falling without promise of return”
The Corner of 8th & Insanity
The Most Dangerous Traders Aren’t The Ones Who’ve Had It Easy
The world teaches us to admire the ones who win effortlessly. The champions who never stumble, the traders who seem to always be in the right stock at the right time, the ones who post gains without showing the blood it took to get there.
But if you’ve been in this game long enough—trading, business, or life—you know the truth:
The most powerful people aren’t the ones who’ve had it easy.
They’re the ones who’ve been crushed. The ones who’ve known defeat. The ones who’ve stared at screens while their account bled red, who’ve questioned themselves in the middle of the night, who’ve known the sting of loss deeper than most can stomach.
And yet—they came back.
The Depths Forge the Depth
There’s something sacred about the person who has clawed their way out of the abyss. Out of max pain, margin calls, the humiliation of being wrong again and again.
That fight doesn’t just build skill. It builds depth. It builds sensitivity to risk. It builds appreciation for strength when you see it.
You learn to spot leaders not because you read a textbook, but because you know what weakness feels like. You’ve lived it. You’ve traded it. And you never want to touch it again.
You gain compassion for others because you know the torment of blowing up. You know how hard it is to rebuild. That compassion makes you human—but it doesn’t make you soft. It makes you lethal. Because compassion, paired with discipline, is clarity.
Powerful Traders Don’t Just Happen
A trader forged in struggle is different. They’ve developed a gentleness toward themselves—because they’ve been to hell and back—but also a ruthlessness when it comes to cutting losers and protecting capital.
That’s the paradox: they can be both gentle and fierce. Compassionate and cold-blooded. Loving with people, merciless with garbage stocks and poor setups.
They understand the market doesn’t care about them, and so they stop expecting it to. They care about themselves enough to do the hard thing—to wait for the true leaders, the stocks showing real relative strength, the setups worth betting on.
They’ve stopped trying to force trades, because they know where that road leads. And they’ve stopped chasing shortcuts, because they know wisdom is bought with scars.
Struggle is the Gate
The beauty of a seasoned trader—the kind that survives and thrives—isn’t in how smooth their equity curve looks. It’s in the fact that they’ve endured when others quit. They’ve taken the same pain that wiped out countless others and turned it into fuel.
Beautiful people don’t just happen. Neither do great traders.
They’re built in the shadows. In the sleepless nights. In the moments when it would’ve been easier to give up—but something in them refused.
That’s the real beauty: the unshakable kind. The kind forged in loss, sharpened in defeat, and reborn in the fire of persistence.
LIVE FEARLESS, NOT RECKLESS.
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