From your earliest days at college you are taught that being right is the most significant thing.
Isn't that what tests teach you? And this is braced thru the rest of your life. Plus there's not a great deal of point thrashing yourself up when you are not "right". Because, as everyone knows, it should occur pretty continually.
Coming from Australia, I am not sure a lot about baseball. But I do understand that batters get paid plenty of money to miss hit the ball a terrible lot. Top baseballers step up to the plate each day knowing that they're very likely not going to get it "right". ) but I did learn a perspective which has stuck with me ever since. "This guy was informing us about how he taught elite athletes to hit their best ( hope he was better at that than teaching folk how to read fast. I was ten years of age and my dreams were shattered. I never wanted to have a look at another model aeroplane again. ] And often he would let me fly it. But I think my folks thought I was too inexperienced. Day trading seminar. So it was a little time later and after saving my pocket money for what looked forever that I eventually got to purchase my own model aircraft kit. The 1st task was to cut the sides of the body of the aeroplane out of balsa wood. It was regarded as an enormous plane and therefore the body was quite long. The 1st time I did this I was doing it freehand. And I conscientiously cut along the line that I had marked on the wood. You see I wanted my first model plane to be perfect. Perfectionism has no place in the stock exchange. Now, I am not saying that you should not try and be the best trader you may be. If you're holding a stock and you are expecting it to go up in price but it start! s to go down, what happens? If you're like me, a little voice within announces something similar to "but this wasn't intended to occur. I know I am right it's simply a non permanent set back ; it'll come right, I will just wait it out This "voice of reason" is your ego. You can not bear to be incorrect, so you explain your call to oneself. You tell yourself that you know what's going to happenthe market's just confusedit's just made a mistake. ( fully illogical reasoning the market can't ever be "wrong" - but it is sensible at the time. This deep-seated, primordial need that we must be right can destroy you in the stockmarket. And you can miss getting additional profits from a trade as you were sure that "it could not go any higher" By being mindful of this "need" you can overcome it over a period. You must get to the point at which you "want what the market wants".