Stop Sabotaging Yourself When Trading Well

Okay, where were we? The main thing is I— we've got this— I have a tendency to hold questions to the end. What I ask you to do when we're covering this material and you come to a moment where you do have a question, go ahead and in the Q&A box, go ahead and write it in so that we have information there. So, you might want to scroll down and see if there's anything. Yeah, let me see if there's anything down here. Okay, we've gotten— okay, now we've gotten it. Okay, all right, we're getting better. Okay, we're getting better. Okay, okay. What I want to do is, in starting this thing, uh, I want to be able to say, you know something, I want you to take a look at what Albert Einstein is saying here. And see how it applies to trading. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and over again and expecting different results. How many times, um, one of the big problems is self-sabotage, which I'm going to take an extra amount of time to be actually in the self-sabotage talk. Once you understand what self-sabotage is, what you really realize It's a pattern that you do and you don't even know you're doing it. It is outside of conscious awareness. We need to pull it up so that it's part of your conscious awareness so we can do something about it. But the major thing here is what we're looking at, at— it's saying, you know something, a lot of the stuff when you're looking at yourself trade, about 95% of what you're doing is on automatic. It's outside of conscious contact. And in particular, what happens is you're really seeing what's going on with, with the beliefs that you hold about your ability to engage uncertainty. That's what's really being revealed, and we need to be paying great attention to that. Now, what I want to do is first really start off with something— in some ways it's really basic, but other ways people keep getting it wrong. When people start trading, what they do is they get really serious about their platform, okay? And they get really serious about how they produce a methodology that manages risk, okay? And they— that's trading. And they're taught that, and they learn that. And then what happens is they go out and everything's fine while they're playing with paper money, but then when they started adding risk Things just kind of blow up on them and they keep blowing up. And this is where, for me, it usually takes 3 to 4 years for a trader to get to the moment where he recognizes that he is the problem. Okay, he is the problem or she is the problem. It's not that— it's not the platform, it's not the risk management. You are the problem. You're, you're emotional reactions to uncertainty of what's being, what's, what's happening. Because there will be patterns tied to historical ways of dealing with uncertainty. Okay? And that's what you're hitting when you all of a sudden you go tilt and you get emotionally hijacked. You've hit one of those patterns that has been established already. So, the deal The deal is this, is that you have taken a brain and a mind that comes out of that brain, uh, that's been built for one thing, short-term survival, okay? And blindly trying to force it to do the opposite. That brain of yours wants to be in control of outcome. It's built to do that, even if you're lying to yourself. Okay, in trading, the one thing that you don't have is control of outcome. That's what you have to wave and say, I don't have control over outcome, but I can have another kind of control. I can have control over the mind that I bring to performance. That's the psychological edge that we're looking for, and without it, your potential as a trader just gets slammed. And that's why most traders are— they have a 3-year sprint through trading and they blow up their capital, they do whatever, and they decide it's not for them and move on. And it's really because you're, you're dead set against a, a brain that doesn't want to do what you're asking it to do with trading. That's the big deal. And from there you really have to take into account the survival programming of the emotional brain. You're looking at an image where, you know, to be honest with you, shark is one of the most— man, think about what Jaws did as a movie. It is primal. And what you're looking at is realizing that you have a very primal brain that is looking at something and realizing one important thing is Your emotional brain, your caveman brain, I call it often, does not discern the difference between loss of capital and loss of life. It has no idea what money is. It has no idea what capital is. But when you start placing money, basically, and put it out, say, okay, this is uncertainty, the— it's probability. What you're doing is you are stoking the fires of your most ancient self. And that's what we have to learn how to do. We're going to actually have to domesticate the per— the person that engages that uncertainty, because that person engaging that shark sees the potential of death. You're looking at probably a photoshopped image where the thing is, is that it's really hard to get in front of an animal like that and not get triggered. To primal fears. That is exactly when you go tilt. That's exactly— it's what's happening. You, um, the truth is, is you get ambushed just when you really need that thinking brain to do its job. But the problem is you start approaching that risk factor, and again, your brain, your caveman brain, does not discern risking capital versus risking life. Okay, so that's what we've got. From there, here's the thing that you really kind of got to get is if you really, if you really take a look at this, when you take a look at that big chunk of this iceberg that says subconscious mind, that's really, that's really the emotional brain. Your emotional brain is constantly building emotional reactive patterns to whatever is happening out in the world. And when they— when it produces success, it wires it in so that it starts becoming automatic. It's habitualized. Okay, that's what is what most people now know as the subconscious mind. What we want to do is recognize the conscious mind, the thinking brain, is really important. But without your being able to domesticate that emotional brain that produces that subconscious reaction to all sorts of threats or opportunities out there, is you're not going to be able to use the conscious mind, the thinking brain, in the way that you need to. So this— and it's just a problem that, to be honest with you, um, there are a few people that are— that have won the, the genetics lottery, and they just seem to be able to get into trading. Before you know it, they're profitable and they're off. That is a— that's a very different emotional architecture that they have than what most people have. We're going to have to build that. Okay, it's not going to come natural. You're going to have to build it. And I mean from scratch. Now, and this is a really good representation here in this graph, is that there's the, um, there's the little geek, there's the thinking brain. He's driving the brain and he's confident and stuff like that. He knows how to trade, he knows the setups, he knows all that stuff, and he's ready to go. In the back seat, being ignored, is the caveman brain, this emotional brain that is reactive in nature. And Everything's fine until risk shows up. Okay, and suddenly that caveman brain is reactive and it's working on instinct. And this is where the Einstein saying, "What's crazy is doing the same thing over and over and over and over again and expecting a different result." We get caught in that loop. The caveman brain doesn't know anything else. And until you learn how to retrain that caveman brain, that emotional brain, you're going to get your, your geek brain, your thinking brain is going to get knocked out of the water the moment you start adding significant risk. Okay, and now I don't mean just fear but aggression, because you know, if you're impulsive, if you jump into trades, you recognize how dangerous that is. It's just not being fearful and losing your, you know, losing your your mind and getting blown away. It is both fear and aggression that have to be worked. Those are the two sides of that emotional brain. So now we know that we're going to have to learn how to do this, and the main thing you really need to understand— this is powerful— we, we like to believe that what we know is the truth. The truth is, is that we come into beliefs that that are self-assessments that lock in. And out of that, you know, suddenly we have biases, we have beliefs, and we have assumptions that cause us to see the truth. The truth is not the truth. It is a particular assessment that's been made, and it takes on the power of truth. And that is where, that is where you start getting really emotionally hijacked because you have to understand is that your beliefs are going to be challenged. And most likely, if you're a human being, you're going to have to find a way to rebuild what the brain believes about its ability to manage uncertainty. That is the ticket. I can promise you the brain that you brought, unless you're one of these wizgos who have just won the lottery, and that's— they're not my concern— is that truly what happens is that you're going to have to rebuild the beliefs that engage the uncertainty. Because ultimately, your trading account represents the beliefs that you hold about your ability to manage uncertainty, and those beliefs are projected onto the screen of the markets, and you're getting the feedback about effective those beliefs are. They're not true, like absolutely. They're either effective or not. They're either able to extract more capital out of the markets than you put back in, or you put back in a whole bunch more than you take out. That's the thing that we want to get. And ultimately, we love to believe that we're being— that we are rational people. We're not. We're rationalizing animals. And basically what happens is that all reason does is rationalize what the emotional brain has already decided. This is why you keep getting emotionally hijacked, and we need to find a way around that. So we've gotten there and going, oh my God, this is really shaking me. This is taking me down to the very bottom. Of my life. Yeah, because what happens is in this graph here, what you're looking at is all the sensorial inputs on the left, okay? And then as it goes into the brain, as electricity I might add, all those, all those sensory inputs are converted from pressure waves and whatever into electricity that the brain goes to and interprets those electrical signals through its perspectives, its beliefs, its values, its memories. Okay? If you've ever had a traumatic memory, you know how rapidly and instinctive they are. And out of those beliefs come your decisions and the behaviors that you do. This— the geek and the thinking brain is only there until— while there's no risk. The moment risk gets there, you're going back to a more primitive organization of the brain. So you do not see and then believe. You believe and then you see. And, you know, ultimately, I don't have a business if it weren't for a bunch of guys in their 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s who are still trying to prove to someone that they matter. They want to believe they matter, but they have to prove it. And unfortunately, they get mixed up thinking it's about money rather than inherent worth. So, this is the deal. This is what has to happen is you have to really begin to recognize is, you know, what I'm seeing, my brain is creating and I learned to believe and it was only through believing that I saw. And most of the people you find out that run into a train wreck. So, from there, This is what happens when you, um, when you look at that geeky guy driving the brain with the caveman guy in the back. Everything's fine, you know, there's no problems or anything like that, and you can see everything in blue and stuff like that. The moment risk appears, or you take that loss, then you take another loss, then you take another loss, and all of a sudden you're on high alert. The thinking brain has been dis— disabled at this moment. Boom! Just like that, it has been disabled either by fear or by the need to get out of boredom, the need to be in aggression to take advantage of the situation right now. And it's no longer rational. It's no longer waiting patiently for the market to show you something. It now is grabbed by fear or aggression, and you are You are pushed down the road. That's what's happening. So this is why you fall apart. It's why you do all that stuff. And right here, what I want to do, this is the kind of the way the emotional brain, the caveman brain, operates. You're going to see that, you're going to see the emotional stimuli coming in. You're going to see the thalamus interpret it. And what you're doing is you're recognizing that the thalamus has a like a traffic cop in there. And it makes— when it sees an emergency vehicle come, it stops all traffic. That's the hijacking, so that the emergency vehicle can get through. What we're looking to do is to recognize that when that is tripped, it takes a short route over to the amygdala, and the amygdala hooked up with the hippocampus, that's the memory circuit. It acts, and but it acts from very primitive and instinctual position. That happens in 0.003 seconds. To get the thought to the brain for evaluation takes 0.25 seconds. So you can already see you're behind, you're behind it. And you can see that you might be rational in one moment, but the time the threat shows up, wham, it's gone. And so what we're looking to do is how can we, how can we change this behavior? That's ultimately what's going to have to happen because what you'll notice is a lot of your beliefs contain the word lie in them. And the truth is, is that those lies really are there, but we believe them. And then we see from the perspective of the lie, we look out there and we see the results. Anybody has seen opportunity arise and they're, they're They're lying to themselves. They're believing and then they see the opportunity or they're believing and they see the danger. And that is what blows up the whole thing. So now, and again, your emotional brain can't tell the difference between psychological discomfort and a threat to life. This is the survival instinct that you're going to have to learn to be able to work with. And out of it, um, there are people who think, I'm just going to come in and I'm going to win against all odds. And those are the ones that blow up capital all over the place. But that is your evolutionary psychology. We had to believe, even if it was alive, that we were going to survive, or we would have never made it. But that's that part. And the second part is that you can make up for prior losses. No, you don't. What happens is that each trade is a singular movement into the management of uncertainty, and you don't make up for prior losses. You may be getting a better mind or a worse mind, but the thing is, is that's a distorted bias that really gets people. And then some people think that they can predict outcome. This is what's going to happen. Well, I can do this, Randy. I can predict all the time, but when I'm— when the money's there, I can't predict anymore. Anymore. So, we've gotten this program bias to think we can control outcome. And what we need to recognize is that we can't. The other thing is a lot of people, particularly Alphas, believe that they have to win to be able to prove their value as a human being. And in my work, what you are learning is this, is that your value as a human being and your performances are completely different. And it's something that you just have to grasp at a very deep level. I call that inherent worth, and it's essential if you're going to become a successful trader, is that your value is not determined by your performances. That's about competency. Your value as a human being is up and beyond that, no matter how you, uh, and I teach it from a spiritual standpoint. I also teach it from a very secular standpoint of where this is the way humans learn to survive in groups. So this is another thing you have to really get over, okay, is that if you're a human being, most likely, and a male in particular, is that you really have associated with winning as value as a human being. That has to be deconstructed Your sense of belief about who you are has to be rooted in inherent worth of however your brain likes that explanation. Again, I teach it from growing up in survival groups and also recognizing that, you know, we are conscious creation. It's really cool stuff. But so this is a The point to understand is this: the brain is built for the certainty of short-term survival. Okay. Now, if you take a look at the surfer and the shark, this is not dissimilar to what life was like 100,000 years ago, a million years ago, is that you never knew what was lurking because most predators don't necessarily chase you down. They ambush you. Okay, so we have what evolved out of that is a fear-based mind that you bring to trading. We, we're built to have a little anxiety to anticipate bad things out there. That's why you watch news programs. When was the last time you saw good news on the news? They're doing it because we are highly tuned in to looking for negative things happening in the environment so we can avoid them or be prepared for them. So, but the deal is, is that brain is simply not built for the probability of trading, okay? And in many ways, you would look at the surfer as a, as a trader, and he's sitting at his computer, and what happens? He sees something go against him, and that's a shark attack. That's how, that's how it works. So the deal is We actually have a lot of rewiring. If you want to become a successful trader, you are going to really need to be able to basically domesticate the emotional brain, that caveman brain, and you're going to have to reprogram it. Your survival instincts have been there and have been wired into your genetic structure, okay? And they're aimed at short-term survival, but from another time and another place. They don't work in the uncertainty of trading, okay? The probability mind has to be built, okay? And it so happens that I teach people how to do that. The deal though, understand, is that, you know, this is the stock market ride, you know, you get used to it and just stay calm, it's just a correction. And you want to say that, but the truth is is that to the emotional brain, it sounds like something else. This is the uncertainty that you're gonna have to work with. Okay? You're confused because you don't know the answers. Okay? And it just so happens confusion produces vulnerability, which leads to the fight, flight decisions under the stress of not knowing with all that capital on the line. That's what you've got. Okay? And you— the good news is that you can build a mind. Okay, but the thing is, is that one thing you're gonna have to do right up front is get rid of abundant thinking, because ultimately you really need probability thinking. It's not like you're going to have, um, by mind over matter. Okay, what we're really doing is we're going to build a probability mind that really has a completely different view of it. You're realizing that your worth as a human being, again, is not tied to your performances. And what you're looking to do is you're looking to build a methodological edge that allows you to have a psychological edge that you bring to managing your method edge. That's what you're looking for. And the question is, well, how do you do this? Okay, how do you go about building a probability-based mind from a fear-based brain? How do you do that? Well, it starts with an acceptance that what you were doing is not working. Okay, and that the brain's reaction to uncertainty has to be rebuilt. Okay, it has to be rebuilt. That's the first— that's the first place you go, oh my God, I've just— I've gotten into something. I actually consider trading to be one of the most powerful self-development, self-mastery programs that you could ever get into, because there is a truth meter in trading called your trading account. No matter what, it's going to shoot straight with you. It's going to tell you the truth and it will cut through the lies you're telling yourself and stuff like that. But when you begin to recognize, okay, I have, I have acceptance of my inherent worth, I know this is really about my competency with a probability-based mind, that is when things get interesting. Now, this, this is called the Yerkes graph. It's been around since the late 1800s. But it's a good way of showing how things work. Initially, to be honest with you, the place of rest-digest is what most people think of as nirvana. They're sitting there, they've got a full belly, they just want to chill out, everything's fine. And then as you start adding some stress, I would call this eustress. Eustress is the body ramping up and the beliefs are there that is helping to produce a peak performance mind. And as stress goes up, the eustress goes up, okay, up to a point. And then what happens is that suddenly the eustress kind of collapses and you find yourself in distress. And the distress has that strong anxiety. It has that, uh, bull in a china shop, a horse in a burning barn effect. And you do you come to a— you come to the meltdown and stuff like that. What we're looking to do is to learn to manage the stress response that you have to uncertainty. You can see that a little bit of stress is good, but it comes to a moment where it peaks out and then the stress just eats you alive. And before you know it, you're thinking crazy. You're falling back into Einstein's doing the same thing over and over again. Not ever getting it right, but keep doing it. So the deal is, is the very first skill that we teach is emotional regulation. And that is particularly with breathing and muscle tension. These are the precursors of an emotional hijacking. Actually, breathing and muscle tension are part of an emotion. If you hold your breath, Do this tomorrow. If you hold your breath like a lot of people do when they're trading, you are stopping the breathing and you're accelerating anxiety and anger. If you sit there and notice how much tension you have in your body, in your neck, in your, in your jaws and stuff like that, you are looking at emotional arousal, cranking up the emotion, getting ready for action. What we teach With the breath control and the muscle tension relaxation, we are teaching you how to disrupt the pattern, disrupt the intensity of the emotion growing so that it doesn't hijack you. Is it going to solve the problem? No. But without it, you're never going to get to the door of the mind. You have to start with emotional regulation. I, I practice emotional regulation, my breathing, intention every day, a number of times a day. So, and it's something that you're just gonna have to learn to do. But the thing is, emotional regulation is not enough. What emotional regulation can do though, by controlling the intensity of emotion, you're in a place where you get to the door of the mind. You cannot use emotional regulation to open the door and to look inside, but without emotional regulation, you never get to observe what actually is going on in your mind. Okay? So that's the first step we take, and we have people doing that long before they start the courses. I want them practicing 3 to 6 weeks before they get to class so that they have this thing and they've started habituating the need to be able to breathe, to be able to calm the emotions down so you don't get so hijacked so easily. Then we teach mindfulness. Mindfulness is recognizing a really strong fact: you and your thoughts are not the same. Think— I want you to Notice how easy it is to identify with thoughts, like what this guy is on the left-hand side here. He's caught up in thoughts. And then on the other side, if you take a look at it, you're finding mindfulness where you're in observer mode and you're stepping back and you're realizing that I am not those thoughts. However, what happened is your observer can fuse to those thoughts and get carried away. That's what happens in an emotional hijacking. The thinking brain just gets blown out of the water and taken away. This is a skill that can be taught because what you discover is this: all thinking is emotional state dependent. And if you recognize that, You go, oh my God, I'm going to have to be able to build and use emotions to create a mind. Yes, that's exactly what the trick is, because all thinking is emotional state dependent. That is such the big thing. You're going, oh my God. You know, the truth is, in quantum mechanics, what you learn is that reality is neither mass nor energy. It exists as potential, and the observer of that potential is what gives shape to the being, to the you that you think you are. You change the observer, you change what you're— the potential that you can recognize. The greater you can actually learn to rebuild your potential into higher functioning, and again, that's what we want to do, but it starts with That's— it starts with learning how to observe, recognizing that you and your thoughts are not the same. All thinking is emotional state dependent. So the deal is you're learning how to— you're learning how to use emotions to produce the right mind that can deal with the uncertainty of trading. That's the big deal. This is absolutely an essential, essential skill to have. But again, by itself— it's not going to solve the problem. This is a process that I teach. The second thing is that it's so easy for the observer to become linked and fused into all these biases, these beliefs and assumptions that cause you to see what you see. This is what I call the historical dialogue. The truth is, is your brain is a community of rival emotional programs that are highly competitive. They duke it out to take control of the construction of the self. If you've ever seen the movie Inside Out, that is exactly what's going on. You're beginning to look inside the girl's mind and you're seeing all these emotional programs in competition and cooperation with one another. That is what you begin— and if you hear the idea Well, you're going to be crazy if you're going to— if you think you hear voices and you're crazy if you do not recognize the powerful voices inside the self. Some are highly destructive, some are highly constructive, but you have to become the observer that can start shaping that. And out of, out of that community of rival emotional programs, basically when, when those programs take on the quality of having thought, It takes on a completely different picture. You suddenly— this community of rival emotional programs are really a boardroom, a governing committee that governs your mind as it engages the challenges of living. Your job, as you get into this, you can learn to produce the right emotional programs, which we're going to talk about in just a few minutes. But it starts with recognizing the mind is a space where these emotional programs are given voice. As your thoughts. So all of a sudden you're realizing this is really important. This is— it is— this is really important. This is more than about just trading. Most people recognize that my work is not really about trading. It's applicable to trading, but it's really about your life. It's about how you have basically blindly been creating a life, and you're waking up observer. You're developing You're, you're developing an awakening so that you see life very differently. And it, it, it's the mind you need for trading. And ultimately, this is that thing of where your mind is a community of rival emotional programs. And what happens is, have you ever noticed that, um, you argue with yourself? You're your own worst enemy. All that stuff, you are really using a language talking about the committee of the mind. Okay? It's that, you know, I'll have debates in my mind. And, you know, one part of the debate is on one side, the other is on the other, and they duke it out. And that is a way of me recognizing, well, who is the one— what part of me is creating this drama, creating the mind that I'm taking to manage uncertainty? Friends, this is what a master trader has figured out. And ultimately, this historical internal dialogue, this is, you know, this is a way of understanding it that has been around for centuries and centuries. There will be part of you that I call the inner critic that judges, that basically tries to shame you, tries to tries to get you to just do dumb stupid things, jump into trades and stuff like that. And what you discover is really deceptive, it's, it's, but it's a part of you. It's an emotional program that is part of the mind that you bring to the game. However, it's uncomfortable, but you really have to learn to master this element of the self. On the other side, you have what I would call heroic internal resources that are waiting for you to come and learn to groom to build, to nurture, and build into a powerful mind that deals in probability. Okay, this is just simply an organization of the self that you can do. Instead of organizing to survive in a particular environment short-term, you are reorganizing yourself for long-term performance. That's what you're doing, because you can't control outcome. But you can control the mind you bring to the moment. And this is where you find the organization of the self that sabotages. This is not who you are. And when you see sabotaging yourself, here's what's really going on is that you start winning and you have a good day, you have a good week, you have a good month, and you're beginning to go, wow, yeah, man, hey, I'm with it. What you're doing is you're hitting the dopamine button. And you're getting a rush of really pure cocaine pulsing through you that absolutely alters the way you perceive reality and is no good in trading, particularly. And suddenly you have euphoria and you think everything's going to be great, and you fall apart. Okay, got tricked again. The other side of, uh, of that sabotage is you start doing good. You have good days, good weeks, good months,, and then you start thinking, oh my God, this is too good to be true. Some, some weight's gonna have to come down. It, it just, I, I, you're caught in scarcity thinking. But these are the two forms of self-sabotage, and you will look at it and realize that it's not gonna go away. You're going to have to master it. And then the next thing we teach is actually accessing your hidden strengths. That are the powerful part. And I like the, uh, the Lord of the Rings trilogy because what you're looking at is these emotional programs being shown as archetypes. You have Aragorn there who is a king reclaiming his kinghood. You have Gandalf who is both a sage and a magician. He's trying to lead people into a new vision. And there are warriors that serve, but also if you take a look at Frodo, to these other people the war is outside. Frodo is much more like a traitor. He realizes the war is inside him. The internal struggle will always be there. But what you have to develop is the discipline of a ruler, the ability to maintain order under pressure. You have to develop the courage of a warrior to turn toward your fear, not to conquer it, to master it. You also are going to have to develop the self-soothing, the self-compassion of a caregiver to keep yourself calm and still connected to that inherent worth. You do those three things and what happens is you create a space for the impartiality of the sage, the one who you want making trading decisions for you. These are internal resources that have been around forever. And the deal is, is I've developed some really cool techniques about how to access these aspects of the self. And you start learning that they're just simply subpersonalities. They're parts of you. And you're changing the internal conversation inside you. And you're beginning to— you're no longer fearing fear. You recognize that This is about self-mastery. And we don't, don't do it alone. Frodo by himself did not get rid of the ring. Sam, his best friend, helped him carry that weight. And even while Frodo was sitting there trying to think that his best friend was actually trying to steal from him, he stayed true. All this lives within you as emotional programs. Okay? We want to be able to— and I use the process of basically learning the way the brain actually takes experience and wires it into memory because I want true memory of these emotional programs in action under challenging circumstances so that you can go in and you can see, "I have experienced this. I know it's there." You're not using affirmations. You're not using visualization. You're actually using memories of things that did happen. It's powerful, friends. This is the development of the probability mindset. Now, ultimately, as you develop this stuff, you're still gonna have to find your dragons and master them. There is no getting away from learning to master your yourself. It's just, for me, it's why we're here. It's— we come to this and we get in, we think, oh, trading's easy money. Trading, trading is self-mastery. You learn to master the thing that you've avoided, uncertainty. And this is the thing, that's why you develop this stuff. And you, you're doing it so that your orphan nature, that part of you that's scared comes to realize that the mentorship is there and it can start growing. And as it grows, the kingdom of the self grows even more. It's powerful stuff. And I might add, it's the edge. You take a look at this right here. These people are significantly challenged. And at the same time, everybody, everybody has to call their inner warrior. They have to call their inner caregiver. They have to call their inner ruler to be able to think and manage this boat in this kind of water. This is what it looks like, okay? It's not just in the movies. It's in— it's everywhere around you. The deal is you can build this mind that can engage the challenges of living from an empowered standpoint. And when you do that, The truth is, it's kind of like this. This guy is not commanding the snow. He's not commanding to make the, the cliff. He's not commanding the mountain. What he's doing is taking control of the mind that performs. This is exactly what you have to do. There's no— he's not winning. He is in sync with that mountain and is producing the ride of his life. If he makes a mistake, it blows up. He is not all-powerful. He can't command what's going to happen, but he can manage himself. That's exactly what we're looking to do in trading. You finally come to the moment where You realize that you're just going to have to rebuild the mind for to do a purpose that it was not originally built for, but it's capable of doing. And it just so happens that I teach people how to do this process. And you know, the truth is, is that, um, I would invite you to our upcoming group course. And what happens is it has 5 sessions every 2 weeks. The first one, September 17th. Yeah, the first one is September 17th. And I'll tell you this, is people need to be signing up, so they need 3 to 6 weeks of preparation to get there, because I'm expecting you when you get there to have been able to take the breathing components and stabilize your breathing, stay stabilize how your emotional reactivity is. I'm expecting that to hear, and then it just moves on. You were taught the skill sets you need that have been described in here to be able to go through this. And, um, it's a, it's a powerful course, okay? And it also has a payment system so that you can pay as you go. We also have the individual course It's highly comprehensive. It's for people who are very serious and they want to, they want to work with the teacher. Okay? But if you're not there yet, what I would encourage you to do is to get my free book. And then after you do that, get my book, Mindful Trading. Okay? And start looking at it and seeing, making sense out of what I'm talking about right now because I know that I'm coming from an emotional intelligence perspective. Perspective. And it's very different than a lot of other perspectives, but it's powerful. And there's also just some— there's lots of articles. You can go to my YouTube channel and, oh gosh, people spend weekends watching videos that where I'm talking about emotional intelligence. I want you to explore and start taking a look at this and saying, what is it going to take me to be able to build the mind that can produce success in trading. Okay, it's taught here. So I invite you, I hope you come on board. If not, I wish you only the best. Okay, now if you have any questions, this would be— yeah, trading is the hardest way to make easy money. Absolutely. If you have questions this would be the time to get them. Or if you don't have questions, I've enjoyed myself, and I hope that, uh, I hope you actually tomorrow when you trade, I hope that you have a smartphone where you record yourself as you trade. Not just with the battery, and it burns up a lot of battery. Do a video of yourself and see emotions explode over your face. Feel the tension of the emotion as it grows. And recognize you can learn how to manage this. Okay, so I'm, I'm not seeing any. Thank you, Randy. You're very welcome. Excuse me one moment. Scroll down again. Okay. I already have. Never do it again. Okay, thank you. No questions. The website mentions an audiobook. But I can't find it. Well, the truth is, is we have had it redone and it's in the process of being redone right now. I should have it in the next 2 weeks and we will put it back on the site. We put up, um, what I would have to say is an inferior product, and I just, I felt, I felt highly embarrassed and we took it down. And, um, so it's going to be there in a couple weeks. Hold on, okay? Hello, sir. I hope you are fine from India. How about involving meditation in it? I— this, uh, there are a lot of guided meditations that use meditation at its core. The breathing is done on basically, uh, you would notice pranayama. They're available on our website, and more information like that is available on our website. But the thing is, I teach mindfulness meditations. And I also teach meditations of where you're learning to live in the now. Okay. This was amazing. Thank you so much. Thank you. Very information. And here's from Mike. Just FYI, the definition of insanity line came from the early 1980s in a 12-step meeting and was later linked to Einstein erroneously. It's still applicable, but I'm actually happy to hear that it came out of a recovery movement. I, when I was a therapist, I referred a lot of people to different parts of the recovery movement. And your— My parents, I committed my parents to the mental institution and finally had them poured into AA where they ended up having 17 years of sobriety, but they were really serious alcoholics. But yeah, I actually like that, that definition of insanity because recovering from something like alcoholism is a lot like becoming a trader. As you discover that you have to become pretty humble and you realize that the self that got you in trouble is not the self that's going to get you out of trouble. Okay. Let's see if there's anything else. Thank you, Randy. I know. What you're teaching, but I still can't seem to reverse the hijacking. Well, who is this, Kurt? That's why you take courses. That's why you take the group course. That's why you would take the individual stuff. Doing it, thinking you're gonna do it yourself is kind of like that insanity thinking we were talking about from Einstein and from my recovery movement. I am talking about— I can't pronounce that— meditation by Buddha. I teach mindfulness, which is a way of stepping back out of thought. But where I would change from the Buddhist tradition in my mindfulness is that I'm not just wanting to become a witness of thoughts flowing by. I'm looking to actually stop the thought And to say, what is the assessment here? What part of the self is this speaking? So, well, we have— we have— we seem to be out of questions. And, and it's about time to go. My hope for you is that everything works out for you. And check out the group course. Yeah, and my hope is that you take a look at the group course because it is powerful and it's built to be affordable. Okay, we want people with the primary skills that allow you to reorganize the beliefs and the habits that you've developed over a lifetime into much more highly productive ones. Okay, that's what we're out to do. And if I can help you, I would be— I would consider it an honor to help you. If I can't, then I wish you so well. But meanwhile, hold on. Blessings to you. Are these courses in person? The group course is not in person. The individual course is in person. But it's— you have group meetings. Oh, I have group meetings where, you know, we're talking just like this. And in my individual course, we're— we're— it's on Skype. It's not person-to-person biology and biology. It's on Skype. I mean, I work— I work all over the world. Zoom. Yeah, it's on Zoom. I'm sorry. So that's it, folks. I wish you well, and I've thoroughly enjoyed myself. And now I'm going to need to figure out how to get out of here. Take care.