Short excerpt from a trading-focused talk explaining how the emotional system escalates and progressively impairs decision-making. The speaker describes emotion rising along a scale (e.g., 0→100), causing a progressive shutdown of rational processes, and rejects a simple binary fight-or-flight model in favor of a graded 'malfunctioning mind' concept.
That's where the emotional system starts to become overactive. Okay, so this is the problematic side. This is where, you know, like I said earlier, you get a tattoo, something in your brain. It's this. It's understanding that as your emotions continue to rise. Okay, so again, the ratio is, you know, this is emotion. That 100. Right. Emotion at zero. Right. So as your emotions get to, let's say, 60, 70, 80, there's a progressive shutdown. Yeah. Some people think about this as the fight or flight mechanism. I like to call it just the malfunctioning mind. Just to describe that it's not a binary like fight or flight. Like it just doesn't get triggered instantaneously. You don't go from being perfect to 100. Okay, instantaneously, unless there's a factor. And I'll get to this later. But in general, for most.
