You don’t need to be a distinguished scholar to understand this.

Just observe yourself. You will notice that whenever you take an action without expectation, your life experience will qualitatively differ from those times you do it with expectation. A typical example is to recall the times you played something you liked. You immersed yourself in that game with passion and your whole mind, and of course, you played to win, but you didn’t get disheartened if you lost. That’s because you enjoyed the process of playing so much that you were ready to play again. If you play with joy, the outcome becomes less significant. If you can bring this awareness into every aspect of life, your life experience will transform dramatically. Above all, you can only reap rewards if you play well, not because you crave victory.

And in trading:

You don’t need to be a seasoned trader to understand this.

Just observe yourself while trading. You will realize: whenever you enter a trade without being attached to expectation – meaning you enter the trade as a natural part of the strategy, without fear, without excessive excitement – your trading experience is completely different. Your mind is stable, your thoughts are clear, and you can easily accept the results whether you win or lose.

Remember the times you traded with a mindset of 'experimenting' or 'I’m executing the plan correctly, results will be calculated later' – during those times, you traded very smoothly. It wasn’t because of luck, but because you were in your optimal state: alert and unaffected. Conversely, when you trade with high expectations – like 'this trade must win to recover' or 'if this trade goes wrong, it's game over', you almost always break discipline, enter and exit at wrong points, and push yourself into an emotional spiral.

If you truly immerse yourself in the trading process, like playing a game you love – you will focus intensely, analyze carefully, react flexibly, and not collapse just because of one stop loss. Because you understand: what you are pursuing is skill, progress, strategy – not a temporary result.

And if you can bring that awareness into each trading session, your mindset will transform. Your account will rise accordingly.

Because ultimately, you can only win if you trade well – not because you crave victory.

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