Praise for Trading from Your Gut

parts of the pair must keep their balance for the dance to work.
For the woman dancer, when she doesn’t know what is coming,
balance is key because it leaves her flexible.
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From the Library of Daniel Johnson

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Flexibility is one of the most important ways to take the pressure
off the decision-making process so you can let your intuition and gut
instincts drive more in your decisions. If you are flexible, you can
change your plan if things out different than you had hoped. When
you know you are flexible ahead of time, this, in turn, makes it easier
to make a quick intuitive decision. So you can be more decisive
when you are more flexible.
When you know you are flexible ahead of time,
this, in turn, makes it easier to make
a quick intuitive decision. 
Fishing for Reality
My father loved to fish. He wasn’t always the best fisherman,
but he loved it. So growing up, I learned to fish at an early age, and
it was an ongoing feature of my childhood.
Fishing is filled with uncertainty. You never know when a fish is
going to strike. You never know when a big fish is going to break
your line. You never know when a school of fish that has been biting
steadily will stop suddenly.
I learned at an early age that not every cast of the lure results in
a fish. Some days you have to cast a lot of times to catch any fish.
Some days you can cast all day long, and you won’t catch anything
at all.
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RADING FROM
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OUR
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UT
From the Library of Daniel Johnson

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Each cast of the rod is like a little experiment, an attempt to see
where the fish are and where they are biting. If you are smart, and
your first attempts don’t bring any bites, you will alter your tech-
nique or the spot you are casting toward ever so slightly to increase
the chances that you will find a fish.
In an uncertain world in uncertain times, your decisions are like
the casts of a fisherman. You don’t know if they are right; they are
really experiments—your best guess where the fish might be. If you
look at them as experiments rather than decisions, it takes the pres-
sure off the process a bit.
This, in turn, makes it a little easier to go with your gut.