Chapter 10 Entry: W - "The easiest and most effective way to work with our beliefs is to gently render them inactive or nonfunctional by drawing the energy out of them. I call this process de-activation. After de-activation, the original structure of the belief remains intact, so technically it hasn't changed. The difference is that the belief no longer has any energy. Without energy, it doesn't have the potential to act as a force on our perception of information or on our behavior." -Mark Douglas W - Marks helps us understand that what causes our inability to fully accept a probabilistic mindset are the beliefs that we developed from an early age. Those beliefs will remain with us for the rest of our lives, but we can deactivate those beliefs so that they no longer act as a force on our ability to consistently trade profitably. W - The work to reframe my mindset to accept that "anything can happen" and the outcome of my trading is unknown has been a huge game changer for me. I see it in the way I take trades now, talk about trading, and how I write about trading. If the 3 pillars of trading are technology, strategy, and psychology, then I have the best trading tools, the most strategies I could ever use in a lifetime; but psychology has been my biggest challenge. The most difficult aspect of psychology has been the work of deactivating many of my beliefs that has hindered me not only in trading, but also in my personal life. I am grateful that Mark Douglas has shown us a path to achieve success as traders and in life. 🙏

Chapter 10 W- A belief can be affected by unconscious sub-beliefs. Every belief that has energy wants to be expressed and validated, this can definitely bring in your emotions to trading. A- Mark talks about Making your beliefs as neutral as how you feel about the tooth fairy or Santa Claus. A- In order to bring this state of neutral thought to your trading, it is important to find something that will clear any energy that a belief has. This can come from many ways, maybe a trading buddy or letting creativity find a way to prove to you indefinitely that your beliefs hold no energy.