by Sean Sawyer | Jan 1, 2025 | SES, INTEGRATE, OBSERVE
Why Overconfidence Wrecks Trading Accounts And How to Climb Down Before Your Nervous System Sends You Over the Cliff Key Points Mt. Stupid Is Neurobiological, Not Moral: When early wins flood your system with dopamine, your prefrontal cortex, the part responsible for...
by Sean Sawyer | Dec 15, 2024 | SES, DETECT, INTEGRATE
Key Points: Sports analogies activate competitive neural circuits that conflict with adaptive trading, often leaving traders feeling overwhelmed or anxious and impairing decision-making when it matters most. Commerce operates on value exchange, not dominance. This...
by Sean Sawyer | Dec 8, 2024 | SES, DEFUSE, DETECT
Key Takeaways: Every trading decision runs through your emotional system first, logic follows, not the other way around Suppressing emotions doesn’t create discipline; it blinds you to the signals your body is sending about risk, opportunity, and danger The...
by Sean Sawyer | Dec 2, 2024 | SES, DIRECT, INTEGRATE
Key Takeaways: Discipline isn’t willpower or emotional suppression, it’s the practiced ability to act from your values when your nervous system is screaming for something else The traders who execute consistently haven’t eliminated discomfort;...
by Sean Sawyer | Nov 18, 2024 | SES, DIRECT, OBSERVE
Key Points: Strategy hopping is rarely about finding a better system; it is a behavioral “Flight Response” used to escape the emotional discomfort of schema activation. The “Abandonment” and “Perfectionism” schemas create an...
