Correct decisions can produce pain. Incorrect decisions can produce relief.
If you don’t consciously separate emotional feedback from decision quality, your brain will keep optimizing for comfort instead of profit.
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Your nervous system learned something very early:
Pain means wrong.
Relief means right.
Trading breaks that rule.
Correct decisions can produce pain.
Incorrect decisions can produce relief.
If you don’t consciously separate emotional feedback from decision quality, your brain will keep optimizing for comfort instead of profit.