Category Archives: Psychology of Fear

Fear is a choice, not a man­date.

On Fear

We speak here about fear, and how one learns to over­come it, and about how one learns in gen­er­al. As my friend Char­lie says, “fear is the prod­uct of an undis­ci­plined mind.” There­fore it can be elim­i­nat­ed through the appli­ca­tion of dis­ci­pline. If you always have per­fect dis­ci­pline, you can stop read­ing now. End of […]

February 1, 2022 – 12:55 pm | By Ted Hearne | Posted in Psychology of Fear, Trader Psychology | Comments (0)

On Freedom

Let’s talk about free­dom, and of depen­den­cy. We speak of liv­ing free in an unfree world. We live in a world sur­pris­ing­ly lack­ing in free­dom. In the Unit­ed States and in many oth­er west­ern indus­tri­al­ized coun­tries we live inside a myth of free­dom, that is, we believe we are freer than we actu­al­ly are. Our […]

December 15, 2021 – 2:36 pm | By Ted Hearne | Posted in Moral States, Psychology of Awareness, Psychology of Fear, The Rest of Life, Trader Psychology | Comments (0)