Another useful thing one can do to improve your brain function. Traders who need to improve their game will find the ideas from this video more practical and effective than many other things.
Jeff Iliff: One More Reason To Get A Good Night’s Sleep
The science behind the importance of sleep. Being a trader (or not) you need to take good care of yourself. Protecting your brain, the tool we use to make money, is way up there with highest priority.
Tyler Cowen: Be Suspicious of Stories
An interesting talk about human’s nature to choose narratives over acceptance of messiness of the reality.
This concept of “accepting reality as it is”, is very important for traders to remember when they are dealing with the markets. However, most people are out of practice to do that because outside of grade school we are never forced to do so, especially on things about ourselves. It is also outside of social norm to tell anything more than stories.
It takes practice to take a step back to view and tell things as they are.
Beginner traders, if you want to become better traders, start your practice today.