Comments on: Morgan Stanley, Tom Watson and Recovery http://traderpsyches.com/morgan-stanley-tom-watson-and-recovery Trading Psychology, the Thinking Man's Market Psychology Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:52:33 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: dfriscia33 http://traderpsyches.com/morgan-stanley-tom-watson-and-recovery/comment-page-1#comment-1689 dfriscia33 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:04:51 +0000 http://traderpsyches.com/?p=1171#comment-1689 Wow, Reading the above I am reminded of numerous times in my life when a negative comment or statement became a highly strong motivational force that helped shaped my life. Almost 12 years ago I had a very serious accident. I fell over 2 stories off a roof. When the time came to go to physical therapy the therapist during the first intake looked me in the eye and said, "You will never be 100% again", BUT "That does not mean you cannot do 100% of what you did before or what you want to do in the future". That one statement which some people would consider demoralizing has helped me accomplish and do so much more with my life the last 10 years than I could have ever dreamed of. There are so many negatives attached to trading. You can never win 100% of the time. There are 2 kinds of traders, idiots and morons. Learning how to trade is an expensive way to learn about yourself. I could go on and on. So why does the person who is confronted with the negative quit while the other person becomes highly motivated. Is it learned or is it how we are wired from birth? I think it is a little of both. I truly believe allowing young children to fail instead of always having someone there to catch them can lead them on the road to dealing with the huge amount of negativity they will have to overcome in their lives in order to be successful and be happy. I went off on a tangent there, sorry. Just remember folks no matter what you hear, trading is a great way to get to know yourself if your willing to work at it. The opposite of a negative is a positive,which in the real world attracts. Dominic Wow,
Reading the above I am reminded of numerous times in my life when a negative comment or statement became a highly strong motivational force that helped shaped my life.
Almost 12 years ago I had a very serious accident. I fell over 2 stories off a roof. When the time came to go to physical therapy the therapist during the first intake looked me in the eye and said, “You will never be 100% again”,
BUT “That does not mean you cannot do 100% of what you did before or what you want to do in the future”.
That one statement which some people would consider demoralizing has helped me accomplish and do so much more with my life the last 10 years than I could have ever dreamed of.
There are so many negatives attached to trading.
You can never win 100% of the time.
There are 2 kinds of traders, idiots and morons.
Learning how to trade is an expensive way to learn about yourself.
I could go on and on.
So why does the person who is confronted with the negative quit while the other person becomes highly motivated.
Is it learned or is it how we are wired from birth?
I think it is a little of both.
I truly believe allowing young children to fail instead of always having someone there to catch them can lead them on the road to dealing with
the huge amount of negativity they will have to overcome in their lives
in order to be successful and be happy.
I went off on a tangent there, sorry.
Just remember folks no matter what you hear, trading is a great way to get to know yourself if your willing to work at it.
The opposite of a negative is a positive,which in the real world attracts.

Dominic

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