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, now I’m learning things that I could have learned years ago because I’m a bit more, 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 the mindset of.

Everything is going to work and it’s, and my process is right. And nothing’s going to go wrong. That frustration results versus when you approach it with the mindset that things will go wrong and I can handle it, that it’s far easier to navigate. Has 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 I ran it. It’s oh, that didn’t work. Crap. What happened? And so I played around with it. It’s oh, the data is not updated. Oh, and then it’s just like this whole cascade of oh, that’s interesting. Oh, I wonder why that happened. Oh, look at that. Oh, that was different than I expected.

And I was like, Took about like 15 leaps of observation, logic, and curiosity to get to the root cause of the problem. Holy shit, if I was operating under the belief that everything was going to go smoothly, I would have given up and just took about two hours to figure out the problem. 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 history, because it was just, frustration after frustration of things not working. But instead, I took this idea of curiosity and going, Oh, 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 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.

 

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Adrian Reid Founder and CEO
Adrian is a full-time private trader based in Australia and also the Founder and Trading Coach at Enlightened Stock Trading, which focuses on educating and supporting traders on their journey to profitable systems trading. Following his successful adoption of systematic trading which generated him hundreds of thousands of dollars a year using just 30 minutes a day to manage his system trading workflow, Adrian made the easy decision to leave his professional work in the corporate world in 2012. Adrian trades long/short across US, Australian and international stock markets and the cryptocurrency markets. His trading systems are now fully automated and have consistently outperformed international share markets with dramatically reduced risk over the past 20+ years. Adrian focuses on building portfolios of profitable, stable and robust long term trading systems to beat market returns with high risk adjusted returns. Adrian teaches traders from all over the world how to get profitable, confident and consistent by trading systematically and backtesting their own trading systems. He helps profitable traders grow and smooth returns by implementing a portfolio of trading systems to make money from different markets and market conditions.