Adrian Reid talks about moving from thinking you know everything to staying curious about trading problems. He spent two hours debugging an automation through fifteen steps, and argues that expecting things to break and investigating with curiosity makes challenges much easier to handle.
I've been trying pretty hard to keep learning in the last couple of years. I did go through a long phase where I just knew what I knew and I just did that. And I really think I left a lot of money on the table when I was doing that and a lot of future wealth because, you know, now I'm learning things that I could have.
Learned years ago because I'm sort of.
A bit more, you know, engaged in all of that. And I think it's really important for everyone just to keep growing. Right. Who else has found that when you.
Approach trading with, with.
The mindset of.
Everything is going to work and it's, you know, my process is right and nothing's going to go wrong, that frustration results versus when you approach it with the mindset of things will go wrong.
And I can handle it, that it's.
Far easier to navigate. Anyone else felt that way? Yeah, I was actually today I was playing with the, the automation, trying to put a few more of my systems into it and, and.
You know, I ran it. It's like, oh, that didn't work. Crap, what happened? And so I played around with it. It's like, oh, the data's not updated. Oh.
And then it's just like this whole cascade of like, oh, that's interesting. I wonder why that happened. Oh, look at that. Oh, that was different than I expected.
And it was like, took about like.
15 leaps of observation, logic and curiosity to get to the root cause of the problem. Like, holy. If I was.
Operating under the belief.
That everything was going to go smoothly, you know, I would have given up.
And this took about two, about two hours to figure out the problem.
Right.
And it was something completely innocuous at the end of the day.
But if I was operating under the.
Belief that everything was going to go.
Smoothly, I would have had the shittiest day in, in history because it was.
Just, you know, frustration after frustration of things not not working. But instead I kind of took this idea of curiosity and gone, oh, huh.
What? Oh, what happened? Where's, you know, and just got to.
The root of the core of the problem eventually.
And then it was just a matter.
Of going, ah, okay, I just need to flick this little switch and everything kind of works again. So I think that curiosity rather than.
Expectation, that curiosity about what's going wrong.
Rather than expectation that things are going to go right for me is the key.
