{"id":11482,"date":"2011-05-11T10:22:37","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T14:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/?p=11482"},"modified":"2011-05-11T10:22:37","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T14:22:37","slug":"making-it-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/making-it-worse","title":{"rendered":"Making it worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bobby Curtis was a world class distance runner who developed insomnia (NY Daily News <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/sports\/more_sports\/2011\/05\/10\/2011-05-10_former_villanova_distance_runner_bobby_curtis_battles_insomnia_hopes_to_qualify_.html\">article<\/a>). \u00a0He had to quit competitive running. \u00a0He tried and considered every solution. \u00a0And then&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It was on one of his innumerable Internet searches that Bobby Curtis finally found a deceptively simple approach, one that counseled him to follow his normal schedule of activities, no matter how he slept, to not let sleep or lack of it dictate his life. It encouraged him to stop looking outside himself for the holy grail of cures, to keep it simple. It helped him see that lack of sleep wasn&#8217;t the principal issue, <strong>it was his reaction to the lack of it that triggered the conditioned insomnia<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As trader we can torment ourselves for being too slow to enter traders. \u00a0We can trade on tilt after we perceive a market unfairness. \u00a0We can stress about cutting winners too early. \u00a0Torture ourselves for underperformance. \u00a0None of this helps our trading. \u00a0Often our response to trading weaknesses, which can be overcome through concerted skill development, makes it all worse.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Bellafiore<\/p>\n<p>Author, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/One-Good-Trade-Competitive-Proprietary\/dp\/0470529407\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1305123405&amp;sr=1-1\">One Good Trade<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bobby Curtis was a world class distance runner who developed insomnia (NY Daily News article). \u00a0He had to quit competitive running. \u00a0He tried and considered every solution. \u00a0And then&#8230;&#8230; It was on one of his innumerable Internet searches that Bobby Curtis finally found a deceptively simple approach, one that counseled him to follow his normal schedule of activities, no matter &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/making-it-worse\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1794,4674,81,1193,653,1354,1349,1795],"class_list":["post-11482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mike-bellafiore-bellas-blogs","tag-insomnia","tag-one-good-trade","tag-smb-training","tag-trader-education","tag-trader-training","tag-trading-coach","tag-trading-mentor","tag-trading-weaknesses","no-post-thumbnail"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Making it worse | SMB Training<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/making-it-worse\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Making it worse | SMB Training\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Bobby Curtis was a world class distance runner who developed insomnia (NY Daily News article). \u00a0He had to quit competitive running. \u00a0He tried and considered every solution. \u00a0And then&#8230;&#8230; It was on one of his innumerable Internet searches that Bobby Curtis finally found a deceptively simple approach, one that counseled him to follow his normal schedule of activities, no matter ... 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