In the most recent Forbes article, Aries, the black tabby cat, poses an interesting thought experiment:
Suppose a movie is going to be made of your life. Is it a film you would go out of your way to watch?
The sad truth is that most of us are living good lives, but not adventuresome ones; not ones that we would be proud to have made as books or movies.
The article poses a unique perspective: perhaps we are operating at states of energy and in environments that fail to bring out our greatest strengths. If you're trading and living with less than movie-worthy adventure, perhaps this is not because you lack discipline or proper self-talk.
Perhaps, like Aries, you need a change of context.
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