What has surprised me most as a therapist for professional money managers, active traders, and entrepreneurs is many are not mentally and emotionally prepared for success. The typical pattern is hard work, executing a viable process, and then start making consistent progress. Then something happens. Not a little something, but a big something. They give much of it away in a short period of time. They have stepped out of a familiar context of struggle, one they know they can survive, into an unknown context that shifts their place in the world.
