Do you hang around people that make life harder than it needs to be? Let me be very clear to set the stage: life is hard. I’m not implying that life is easy or anything of this nature. The area I want to dig a bit more into (looking at a real world situation) is how some people choose to make life way more difficult than it needs to be. How does this relate to trading and investing? The smoother your “normal” life is, the easier it becomes to learn how to trade and/or invest. What I’ve found to be the case is too many people surround themselves with people making their life harder than it needs to be and then believe the system itself is the problem. This is extremely dangerous territory to tread on. How so? If the cause of hardship is “the system”, this would mean you have no control over your life. In my opinion, this is a very scary and depressing proposition. I would submit the claim that while life is hard, you do have a significant control of just how hard it is. In other words, as you’ll hear about in this episodes, this person is choosing to create massive hurdles for themselves instead of making their life so much easier. Don’t listen to the narrative that “the system” is rigged against you. It’s not. Too often people have the system working for them and then self sabotage themselves. Let me show you what I mean…