027: Trader and Psychologist Dr Gary Dayton discusses why traditional approaches to controlling emotions don't work, the role of emotions in trading and how mindfulness can improve trading performance.
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Are You Worried About the Passenger?
Captain Sullenberger said the physiological response I had to this was enormous, meaning that he was scared, and that he felt it in his body. When we become frightened, three things happen our minds get focused in on the threat. Our emotions swell up within us that fear that trepidation that apprehension and that all the way around to abject terror. He didn't try to suppress his fear. If he did that he would have taken his attention off of what was important. At that time, was to lay a aircraft and all the technical things he had to do to accomplish. The crew was to deal was there to deal with the passengers and I figured the passengers themselves were praying
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