Show Notes
In this episode of Trading Nut, host Cam Hawkins sits down with Neil Solomon — mechanical-engineer-turned-entrepreneur, author of The 1% Door, and mindset expert — to unpack the psychological patterns that quietly sabo
Full episode + show notes: https://tradingnut.com/neil-solomon/
Key moments - [02:38] "Life's going to give you a whole bunch of good stuff and a whole bunch of bad stuff. If you try anything, you have to just keep getting up every time you get knocked down. Learn what it taught you so that the ne - [04:11] "You have to teach yourself all of these rules that don't work anymore." - [05:12] "One day when you're not trading… sit quiet and start thinking about the mistakes that you made. Why did you do it?" - [06:27] "You have to replace them with the good ones… those are the rules that now need to run through your brain every day." - [08:29] "The more you can get your system to be automated and not need you, the more free you will be in your life." - [13:08] "You've already cashed the check in your mind. It's not yours because you didn't trade it. Until you trade it, the money is not yours." - [13:48] "Humans… don't judge gain and loss the same way. It's always about the loss." - [14:58] "Watch a professional poker player… if you want the skill, find the person who's mastered it." - [21:10] "You are always the limit of your success. Period." - [24:17] "The peer group keeps you honest. It makes it so you can't lie to yourself." - [25:31] "You need somebody outside your circle to tell you about things you could never see." - [29:31] "This is about strategy. This is about human control. This is about being better than you were."
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