The Mental Game of Trading Quotes

“The unseen enemy is always the most fearsome.” —George R. R. Martin,
A Clash of Kings”
― Jared Tendler, The Mental Game of Trading: A System for Solving Problems with Greed, Fear, Anger, Confidence, and Discipline

“Not only are you continually figuring out how to best play the game, but the game can change at any moment.”
― Jared Tendler, The Mental Game of Trading: A System for Solving Problems with Greed, Fear, Anger, Confidence, and Discipline

“Misinterpretations are easy to make because trading is far more intense than the typical job. Imagine how much would change in the corporate world if salaried employees were paid based on their day-to-day performance. What if they had money taken out of their paychecks if they underperformed? Considered in those terms, not even professional athletes have the same pressure. Tom Brady doesn’t get his pay docked if he throws an interception. Tiger Woods doesn’t personally hand over fifty thousand dollars on the first tee to play in a tournament.”
― Jared Tendler, The Mental Game of Trading: A System for Solving Problems with Greed, Fear, Anger, Confidence, and Discipline

“but anxiety and fear shrink that number even further. You struggle to answer the question driving your fear because you lack the space to consider all the relevant data. Imagine trying to complete a 1000-piece puzzle by only looking at three pieces at a time—your mind goes into overdrive in a desperate attempt to find the pieces needed to solve the problem.”
― Jared Tendler, The Mental Game of Trading: A System for Solving Problems with Greed, Fear, Anger, Confidence, and Discipline

“Working memory is where you think. It’s where the voice in your head lives, and it’s like a whiteboard in your mind where you consciously put pieces together and work through problems. Under normal circumstances you have access to between five and nine pieces of information at one time in your working memory. This part of the brain is already limited,”
― Jared Tendler, The Mental Game of Trading: A System for Solving Problems with Greed, Fear, Anger, Confidence, and Discipline

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” —Plato”
― Jared Tendler, The Mental Game of Trading: A System for Solving Problems with Greed, Fear, Anger, Confidence, and Discipline

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” —Albert Einstein”
― Jared Tendler, The Mental Game of Trading: A System for Solving Problems with Greed, Fear, Anger, Confidence, and Discipline