An excellent article from Alvaro Fernandez takes a look at how cognitive neuroscience and technology are creating an explosion of apps for the brain. There's an important recognition in this work: that in changing ourselves, we change our brains. Nothing in coaching or psychology works--no journaling, no goal-setting, no self-affirmations, no attempts at discipline or self control--unless it results in our rewiring.
If you are trying to change something in your trading, the key question to ask is: Am I going about this change in a way that is likely to rewire me? If not, the change won't stick. Sticking with the same wiring and hoping for different outputs is a formula for frustration.
Cementing a change in trading--or in any other facet of life--requires two things:
1) A fundamental shift in state of mind and body - The most efficient (if not the most constructive) learning occurs during trauma: a single event can alter personality in fundamental ways. Successful change creates positive traumas.
2) Repetition - Doing new things the same way over time is what turns positive changes into positive habits. We know we have achieved rewiring when we have cultivated new habits. If a change is something you are working on, you know you haven't reached rewiring. It's when changes become habits that they are truly part of us.
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