19: Denise Shull | How to Turn Bad Emotions into Good Decisions
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2018
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Denise Shull (@DeniseKShull) is a performance architect, ReThink Group founder, and author of Market Mind Games: A Radical Psychology of Investing, Trading and Risk, considered the Rosetta Stone of trading psychology.
"The worst decision you make is always from acting out some feeling you usually don't know you have." -Denise Shull
What We Discuss with Denise Shull:- Why understanding what we feel and why we feel it is a source of power for creating change and spurring transformation.
- Why the avoidance mechanisms high performers often use to escape the influence of emotion on actions is counterproductive.
- How feeling negative emotions can help us decode hidden information inside those emotions to help us perform at our best.
- What we can do to recognize what we're feeling -- especially if we've regulated ourselves to feel nothing in the face of difficult decisions.
- How a thesaurus can be used to keep us from making mistaken decisions.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | The research actually shows that if you can come up with the right word for the feeling, |
| 0:05.6 | like is it fear uncertainty doubt concern panic on that spectrum? You will be less likely to mistakenly |
| 0:15.6 | act on the feeling. Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger. As always, I'm here with my producer |
| 0:22.4 | Jason DeFilippo. And today we're talking with Denise Schull. She's the author of market |
| 0:27.6 | mind games. And frankly, this book is the Rosetta Stone of Trading Psychology. She also was the |
| 0:33.5 | inspiration for Wendy, the character Wendy, the performance psychologist that is in the office |
| 0:38.4 | on the show billions. And I thought that was a fascinating character. I was surprised and happily |
| 0:42.7 | so to find that there was a real life Wendy. And here she is. Denise leverages neuroscience |
| 0:47.5 | emotion research and modern psychoanalysis and has created mental models and strategies for solving |
| 0:53.6 | otherwise unsolvable mental blocks, which is you can you can see why that might be useful |
| 0:58.4 | in a hedge fund or other high performance environment. And of course, she now addresses these |
| 1:02.7 | challenges of slumps repetitive mistakes and confidence crises in traders, portfolio managers, |
| 1:08.5 | Olympians, pro poker players and professional athletes are all on the roster. And today we'll |
| 1:14.0 | discover why understanding what we feel and why we feel it. Two things that are harder than they |
| 1:19.2 | sound is the source of power to create change and transform and will explore how high performers |
| 1:25.3 | often use avoidance mechanisms to escape our feelings and instead bear down on other achievements |
| 1:31.4 | and why this is actually counterproductive. We'll also uncover how feeling negative emotions |
| 1:36.1 | can help us decode hidden information inside those feelings and emotions to help us perform |
| 1:41.6 | at our best. As usual, there's a worksheet for today's episode so you can make sure you solidify |
| 1:46.6 | your understanding of all the key takeaways here from Denise Shell. That link is in the show notes |
| 1:51.1 | at Jordan Harbinger.com slash podcast. Now here's Denise. Denise, thanks for coming on the show. |
| 1:57.4 | Thanks for having me, Jordan. So you're a performance architect which on the one hand, |
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