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Trading Profits Mastery

Mastery or the free ride bias

Your future

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe said, “Everybody holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he

will fashion into a figure.

So are you sculpting trading profitability? Or are you continuing to pay the creditor?

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The creditor

None of these social narratives are truly interested in your happiness or

fulfilment.

They’re designed to entice you to follow a particular way of living and a particular life story. From childhood, you’re provided with the

map of the story of happiness.

Remember that you’ve been conditioned to follow the dominant

social narratives of society.

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Map maker

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You’ve got to start thinking about what future you’re holding in your hands? The map you’ve unconsciously bought into? Or the conscious narratives you’ve designed for yourself?

Are you a map reader or a map maker?

Better Map

If you don’t know what you’re up against, how can you fight back?

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Freedom

To gain freedom and trading profitability, you must design a better map and develop the will power and

psychology that’s capable of following that map.

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Potential

Profitable traders consciously develop their potential. They’re like elite athletes who purposefully develop their trader selves. But

most traders don’t think of themselves as elite athletes...

...and their selves remain under the influence of ‘loss making instead of profit making’.

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Struggle

Financially, no matter how hard you work at following ‘traditional social narratives’, your results are always on the

slippery slope of debt.

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Unique natural abilities

You were born with unique potential but you probably didn’t grow up in an environment that

encouraged you to develop that potential.

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Instead, you grew up under the strong influence of social engineers, who not only gave you a map to

follow, they taught you how to think and behave.

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Develop your selves

The task ahead of you is to give yourself the time and space necessary to develop the selves capable of

achieving trading profitability and more fulfilment.

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But how are you going to do this? How are you going to take back control from the social engineers who have no desire for you to develop past your ability to consume?

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Potential

The Great Russian philosopher P.D Uspenskii was a keen observer of human potential.

He studied the evolution of humankind and the special conditions necessary to access more of

the potential you’re capable of expressing.

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Potential

In The Psychology of Man’s Possible Evolution, Uspenskii observes that humans basically get a ‘free ride’

up to a certain level of development.

Uspenksii refers to the way social engineers condition certain patterns of

pre-determined behaviours into your psyche.

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Potential

“Man as we know him is not a completed being; that nature develops him only up to a certain point and then leaves him, either

to develop further, by his own efforts and devices...

“... or to live and die such as he was born, or to degenerate and lose capacity for

development.”

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Free ride

From the moment you are born, social engineers take you on a ‘free ride’ to a conventional level of existence.

Sadly, most people never develop past this point.

As long as you learn the consumption code basics of earn... spend... borrow... enculturation

is happy, it’s done its job.

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Free ride

The free ride develops half of your potential and provides you with just enough money, just enough

time, and just enough freedom.

Enculturation is not interested in your ability to create trading profits; its real interest lies in your ability for

servitude, conformity and predictability.

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Free ride ends. Your money ability/skills/knowledge don’t develop past this

point.

Potential

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Potential

Uspenskii cites three levels of potential.

1) to develop further under our own focused attention2) to stop at the “free ride” level of social engineering

3) to degenerate and lose your capacity for development

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Free ride

To develop further, you must treat yourself as an elite athlete and concentrate on developing your

unique potential to be a profitable trader.

Your true potential lies beyond the free ride mark… but you must develop an ‘elite’ frame of mind.

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Potential

Money Zone Upper and lower limits

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Decompensate

Scramble

Comfort zone… Trading zone…

The free ride is the ‘upper limit’ of your trading zone. Your comfort zone becomes so strong that it causes you to recoil from

doing what you need to do.

Remember that confortare = com = intens + fortis = strong.

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You can’t make a $1,000,000 until you become an elite trader. Part of that is your system and the other part is you.

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Potential

Potential requires the development of inner qualities, (selves) which cannot develop by themselves.

Uspenskii noted that advancement is possible, “Only in certain definite conditions, with efforts of a certain

kind on the part of man himself...

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Potential

“...and with sufficient help from those who began similar work before and have already attained a

certain degree of development.” Role models... Dedicated learning... Support...

He went on to say that, “All men cannot develop and become different beings... The answer is very simple.

Because they do not want it.

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Potential

“The chief idea is that in order to become a different being, man must want it very much and for a very

long time...

“A passing desire or a vague desire based on dissatisfaction with external conditions will not create a

sufficient impulse...

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Potential

“The evolution of man depends on his understanding of what he may get and what he

must give for it.

“If man does not want it, or if he does not want it strongly enough, and does not make the necessary

efforts, he will never develop.”

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Attentively cultivated

Goethe said, “We are merely born with the capability to do it.

“The skill to mould the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.”

Viktor Frankl said, “When we are no longer able to change a situation -we are challenged to change ourselves.” To achieve this, it’s

necessary to build new thinking loops.

ThoughtComfort

Belief

Habit

Mindset

ResultBehaviour

Signature thinking loop

Familiar

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Buckminster Fuller said, “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that

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Plateau of development

Extraordinary achievement

Evolve your core circuits

Free Ride Potential

Formula for excellence

Mastery External

Feedback

Develop your true genius

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TPM = (exptn + exprnce) x AD+ x VP

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Mastery

Mastery is related to the focused development of your natural talents into skills.

In the name Trading Profits Mastery, what’s meant by “mastery”?

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Mastery

Mastery is the passionate pursuit of consistency to well thought out fundamentals.

George Leonard suggests that...

“Mastery is not about perfection. It’s about a process, a journey. The master is the one who stays on the path day after day, year after year. The master is the one who is willing to try, and fail, and try

again, for as long as he or she lives.”

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Mastery

You build mastery by constantly moving towards it.

The whole idea that you can use your mind to change your brain for the better now occupies one of the key focal points of

neuro-scientific research.

Mastery requires the building of neuro-networks for mastery.

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Mastery

Mastery is about moving towards the profitability you want and staying the course long enough to get there.

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Mastery

Sadly, most people never develop the drive and motivation for the

practice of mastery.

Over 150 years ago Henry David Thoreau observed, “Most men live lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with their song still in

them.” Developing mastery is an invitation to begin living your song.

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Mastery

It stems from accessing a particular form of power and intelligence.

Mastery comes from understanding your key emotional and psychological talents and the drive to develop them

further through dedicated focus and practice.

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Mastery

It’s a feeling of being unusually energised and focused.

It’s an intelligence that’s not taught in schools and it’s not understood by the masses, and yet, at some point, you’ve

glimpsed experiences of it.

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Mastery

It’s where you lose track of timebecause you’re completely

absorbed in “flow state” processes.

It’s a period where intensity of concentration sparks new ideas, inspiration and productive solutions.

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Mastery

If you consciously work at “mastery” it becomes your vantage point through which you live life and see the world.

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Mastery

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Mastery

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Mastery

Einstein said, “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a

faithful servant.

“We have created a society that honours the servantand has forgotten the gift.”

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Mastery

...to your familiars where you stop learning, observing and growing.

Honouring the servant mind comes as a result of your inability to veto distractions that cause you to lose focus

and to constantly return...

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Mastery

Mastery is a state of being. It takes time and you have to cycle through periods of discomfort so that your neurons can learn to

reward you for new behaviours and new thinking.

To experience mastery, you must lessen the hold your familiars have over you and learn

to master change within yourself.

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Familiars

Although mastery requires many elements to emerge, it requires two ingredients above

everything else.

Within your familiars, sameness is supreme... and your fears, frustration, impatience, boredom, current results and confusion remain your ‘organising principles’.

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Mastery

It requires “time and repetition” for all the remarkable aspects of mastery to

take shape.

Within the formula of self directed neuro-plasticity...

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Trading profitability

Along with more control over self directed behaviour...

...there’s a certain quality of practice in both thought and behaviour for the development of mastery. And if you’re

not practicing mastery… what are you practicing?

TPM = (expectation + experience) x AD+ x VP

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Practice

The development of “mastery” neuropathways are totally dependent on the quality and quantity of focus you bring

to the disciplines of trading.

...the more you practice one thing over and over, the higher the levels of skill

and awareness you develop.

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Practice

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Freedom

If your form of financial mastery fails to develop, the pull of “age related shrinkage” makes you fall further behind.

It’s only through mastery that you gain access to the freedom of your craft...

Trading Profits Mastery

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Mastery

If you avoid mastery by trying shortcuts, you’ll never develop “trading mastery” and this means you’ll have to

keep paying the creditor.

“Mastery” ensures that your profits increase over time...

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Promotion of mastery

…“familiars” that support sameness...

For trading profitability, your mirror neuron’s most important environment is a mastery environment. But most people

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Mastery

...rather than skills and confidence that encourage you to take on new and more profitable challenges.