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This guy is interested in a fast-paced risk-taking career in trading but admits he&#39;s not the coolest cat in the alley when it comes to dealing with high-pressure situations. He can&#39;t bluff his way through a friendly game of seven-card stud, can&#39;t watch Man. U. without eating the ends of his nails, and tosses and turns like a four-year old afraid of the dark the night before the big exam. So it would seem that he should chuck in the 400-count Egyptian cotton and ditch his dream of making it big in the world of derivatives, shorts and options, right?&lt;p&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;embeddedObject&quot; src=&quot;http://content.screencast.com/users/dloos/folders/Jing/media/5dfdb6ee-9d3d-44bf-85fd-dfaeee32e57d/00000033.png&quot; width=&quot;270&quot; height=&quot;183&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;Trading Floor&quot; align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;Wrong.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What he should do is this:&lt;p&gt;Practice.&lt;p&gt;That&#39;s right, even controlling your emotions, like times tables and state capitals, can be learned (though, certainly, working on your stress-dealing skills might not be as easy as remembering where the heck Montpelier and Bismarck sit on the map). &lt;p&gt;And here&#39;s how:&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;#1: Identify your weaknesses.&lt;/b&gt; Take the aforementioned wannabe trader for example. He has already taken step one, outlining his weaknesses, citing his &quot;nervous/stressed mindset.&quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;#2: What do you want?&lt;/b&gt; After identifying your weaknesses, you need to communicate, if only to yourself, what you want. In this example, the wannabe trader wants a good poker face, a calmer countenance when the chips are on the line, and the ability to put out of his mind an imminently stressful situation that will occur sometime in the near future.&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;#3: Put yourself in situations where you have to work on your weaknesses.&lt;/b&gt; To keep this example going, the guy should engage in experiences and events where he&#39;ll be forced to bluff, compete, and be tested. So, he might play more poker (though I do not advocate doing this for money) or watch his favorite football side and try not to yell at the TV or get excited or sign up for a an exam where he has to study. (He could also get some of his buds together and play this game, one of my favorites as a kid and one that I challenge anyone to play in a calm, quiet state.)&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;#4. Repeat #3 again and again and again.&lt;/b&gt;

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