Let us now talk about the Human Persona. The human persona or HP has a mission. The mission is to preserve life, to survive. When the HP does not preserve life (i.e., contemplates suicide) it is because some thing has gone terribly wrong, as suicidal tendencies in a HP are not normal. We can say that the normal state of the HP is to preserve life, to survive, and to strive to survive, at all cost. This is expressed through absolutely everything the HP does or thinks. Absolutely everything, including eating, procreation, sleep, excercise, rest, thought, speech, absolutely everything you can think of is linked to survival.
When the HP is in child form, it is innocent. This means the HP does not have comprehensive knowledge or experience. Let us examine these. Knowledge is the dissipation of ignorance. We are all born ignorant.
As we grow up, we begin to learn new things, everyday more and more. Included in this learning process we take note of what might be dangerous, threatening, risky, menacing, not prudent. In childhood not much importance is given to what to an adult is patently potentially dangerous. This is because the knowledge has not had the opportunity to to take root, to mature, either by example or verification.
The maturing of this knowledge involves the acquisition of experience. Experience is a process of making mistakes, but hopefully, not repeating them. The central core of the mission whilst all this is going on is to preserve life above everything else. The mind collects and stores a vast catalogue of what it considers to be dangerous and what it considers not to be. Because the life experiences of individuals are different owing to background, education, and upbringing, therefore the template that each individual develops in this respect has to be different. This is not under dispute. It is a natural extension of acquiring knowledge, followed by experience..
But what happens in parallel, subconsciously is that the mind develops measures to include these experiences and their ramifications as subliminal rule sets, that are called upon to advise, for want of a better word everytime a new situation is encountered to assess whether it is a threat to the preservation of life or not. It does not matter whether the the threat is a real one or not, the mechanism dedicated to preserving life goes on "sentry duty" so to speak. It therefore means that this mechanism steps in and is the first line of defence whenever something occurs which is perceived, whether justifiably or not, to threaten life.
This mechanism is so well embedded in the human psyche that it processes everything. It attempts at all cost to prevent the HP from damaging itself, because it views damage as a threat to life as well. For example people who mutilate themselves have got to be abnormal. Even the thought of self mutilation is abnormal. Now take the case of people of both sexes who cover themselves with tattoos for example.
The root cause of this is a level of low self esteem. It is self mutilation in principle without self mutilation in practice, because the damage is not physical but visual. It is an example of a type of aberration of the HP, that persists in seeing it as fashionable or glamourous or the result of peer pressure or fashion but it is not normal. But the tattooees see it as the right thing to do, and will stongly argue in its favour.
Thus the mechanism goes to extremes to fulfil its mission, in all sorts of ways that we cannot even consciously imagine until we put our attention on this faculty of the human mind.
This mechanism does not reason in the deductive sense of the word, it presents its conclusion in the form of a signal. But what happens is that this mechanism gets in the way of other tasks that may be necessary and actually hinders them or blocks them as they are viewed (erroneously) as potentially life threatening. One of the most insidious of problems this mechanism poses, is that in order from its view of its mission to preserve life , it attempts to protect the HP even when the HP is wrong, as it prioritises life preservation before right or wrong.
This is a huge problem, and is never properly understood. This is why society will view with horror a serial murderer or a serial rapist or a serial arsonist, as these people have acquired a warped view according to their life experiences that have triggered responses to stimuli particular to them. Because these stimuli are effective in triggering responses from them according to their view of the world and themselves therefore what they do (which is wrong) makes sense but to them but not necessarily to anyone else, as from their point of view, which is a totally wrong one, what they are doing is the preservation of life.
Therefore (according to them)., they are doing their best to preserve their own life, never mind anybody elses ! Thus we are beginning to see that the HP has a lot of imperfections. To make it even more difficult the HP has as a consequence of having lost innocense and acquired knowledge and hence experience,
has now developed sophisticated camouflaged mechanisms to defend itself when it perceives threats. It actually booby traps routes that lead to tackling these problems caused by the preservation of life mechanism, or the survival response mechanism.
The problem is that the HP is equipped for the preservation of life, and persists even when the individual being protected is fundamentally wrong. It has in place mechanisms to deal with this, it has booby traps in place to prevent access, many of these defensive mechanisms are camouflaged and only come to the fore when stimulated to do so by a perceived threat. This is why the excercise of watching yourself doing something and reasoning about it is uncomfortable, but necessary to establish that the HP is not there to help you in your trading.
This is because the HP is not constructed to deal with the information shocks that market action is able to deliver, with its cruel yes / no outcomes. The HP is not equipped to deal with this, and additionally runs the risk of being subject to an emotion. I forgot to mention this earlier, because this is another or the booby traps put in place to preserve life. Emotion has the ability to disable reason. The disability of reason
disables the ability to act in accordance with it. Yet the HP perceives this and cannot disengage. This is in part the reason why many traders freeze and are unable to get out of a bad position.
So now we see that the HP carries with it several viruses which disable and disempower it, in a trading environment. The HP is therefore not suitable for the purpose of trading. A new persona is required, this new persona is not affected by emotion, does not freeze, is impartial, calm, disconnected, cannot be stimulated, does not struggle to preserve life because the preservation of life is not in its agenda, and is able to reason clearly and is able to act always in accordance with its reason. This new persona is the TP.
in english - possible!
