The primary reason traders experience distress is their continued emphasis on profits and losses, which remain beyond their control. 📉

The inherent randomness of short-term outcomes can occasionally produce a winning streak, triggering a dopamine response that creates an illusion of control. 🧠

However, in the long term, this merely intensifies the focus on winning and losing, ties short-term results to one's sense of professional competence, and ultimately exacerbates suffering. 📈

True success in trading resides in a domain entirely distinct from the binary "win or lose" game. 🎯