{"id":8633,"date":"2010-12-03T11:48:28","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T16:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/?p=8633"},"modified":"2021-05-06T14:58:09","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T18:58:09","slug":"improve-your-performance-by-watching-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/improve-your-performance-by-watching-yourself","title":{"rendered":"Improve Your Performance by Watching Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of our traders read our blog post <\/a>last night on improving your performance by watching and shared some interesting additional data. This comes from the book \u00a0One Second Thought: Outsmarting your Mind’s Hard-wired Habits<\/a><\/em> by Wray Herbert.<\/p>\n

Psychologists used to think that perception and movement were two completely separate process, lodged in different regions of the brain. The common wisdom was that we perceive the world with our eyes and ears and so forth, and send that information to the mind, which processes the data and in turn instructs the limbs and lips to act in certain ways. But apparently it’s not so tidy. According to Rutgers University psychologists Gunther Knoblich and Natalie Sebanz, the latest evidence suggests that it doesn’t matter whether we’re performing or observing. Each mental task activates the mind’s mimicry heuristic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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And then came a shared passage that offers a new thought. We can learn even more by watching our own performance. Here’s why:<\/p>\n

so the brain helps us – make us – connect to the rest of humanity, but the neurons must allow us to function as individual beings. To do that, according to Knoblich and Sebanz, we carry “common codes,” or scripts, in our mind for specific kinds of movement, such as dancing or playing a video game. … For example, the brains of highly trained dancers react more quickly and intensely to their dancing codes if they are watching the kind of dance they are trained in – ballet, say, or flamenco – than if they are watching something unfamiliar.\u00a0And there is even more brain activity if the dancers are watching videos of themselves dancing rather than someone else.<\/span> Knoblich and Sebanz speculate that this selective activation of the internal repertoire is what allows us to distinguish our own actions from those of others. Seeing ourselves in action has greater resonance in the neurons, even though we don’t see ourselves all that often….<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What does this mean for us as traders? Watch film of your trading. For less active traders, replay your buys and sales while looking at a daily chart. You can improve your trading by watching your trading.<\/p>\n

You can be better tomorrow than you are today!<\/p>\n

Mike Bellafiore<\/p>\n

One Good Trade<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The PlayBook<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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no relevant positions<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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