I used to think restraint was a moral constraint, but now I increasingly feel that "restraint" is actually top-level risk control. In trading, there's an art to "being out of the market," and it's the same in life. Being led by information streams and unable to put down your phone is, in my view, a kind of "being fully invested and trapped" anxiety. Cutting off meaningless cycles of desire (whether it's binge-watching or frequent actions) saves not only time, but more importantly, an extremely scarce state of flow.
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