I think that article is nonsensical pseudo-scientific hogwash personally. If anything I'm scared to fail and I'm assuming other people feel the same way.
My wife completely agrees with you and when applied to trading success its hard to see how you could be holding yourself back even ona subconcious level.
But surely theres a comfort in failure, reduced responsibility, not really addressing the issues causing your failure, holding onto the fantasy of trading for a living with none of the pressure that comes with it been your main source of income.
Lets apply the concept to keeping fit.
we know we should keep fit and that as a result we will be:
- happier
-have more energy
-live longer (maybe)
I'll be brave and use myself as an example,
I exercise sporadically getting into a rythym for a couple of weeks before missing a session due to any no of genuine reasons, but then this leads to missing more sessions and before you know it i've stopped completely.
So why is it I keep failing,
Its not a fear of failure, surely that would stop me trying in the first place,
Have I set myself up mentally to fail. Maybe I expect to fail and take comfort when it occurs.
Maybe I just dont want it bad enough.
Maybe I like the idea of the end result but dont want to/enjoy doing the exercise enough to keep me going.
Lets take it back to trading,
If you were scared of failing you wouldn't try in the first place or maybe your scared of been successgfull and then failing because the drop would hurt more from greater hieghts??