Description of Inner Circle

Imagine walking into a library with books, articles, magazines and videos stacked everywhere.

These are the best of the best. There are clear sections, but everything you pick up is the discovery of a gem. Everything in this library is here because it personally made a positive impact on Mind Muscles Academy founder Richard Friesen.

Sections include: Addiction, Brain Biases, Books that support your master trader expansion, Economics, Politics – Healing our Political Divide, Managing risk and reward, Mental Meta Structures and Thinking Processes, Sexuality and Relationships, Success, Trading Mistakes, Trading Fundamentals, Technicals and Strategy, Master Mind development, Transformation – Creating the life we want.

Please browse the library and uncover the gems that can make a positive impact on your life.

What will you learn in Inner Circle?

Addiction

• Stanton Peele, Ph.D. on Addiction
• Wendi Friesen – Hypnotherapist – Addiction Freedom
• Everything You Know About Addiction is Wrong – TED Talk

Amusement

• Pacific Exchange Options Floor – Bootlegged video
• “Stop it” Bob Newhart’s answer to psychological issues
• Remy All My Loving – Beatles Parody (2:20)

Biases: Brain Biases that create poor decisions

• Anchoring Effect – Short Video (4:27)
• Boredom Trading (5:11)
• We can all be conned by a good con artist (4:44)
• Does Control Create Value – Should It? (3:27)
• Easy Come, Easy Go (5:13)
• What stops you from success? (69:00)
• Impulse Interuptus – 6 Minute Video on impulse interruption (6:40)
• Managing Trading Losses – 6 minute video (5:44)
• Trading Stress – 5 minute video (5:12)
• Cognitive Fallacies in Everyday Language – L. Michael Hall

Books that support the master trader expansion

• Why we selected these books
• “Trading in the Zone” Mark Douglas
• “The Daily Trading Coach” Brett Steenbarger
• “The Hour Between Dog and Wolf” John Coates
• “Super Trader” Van K Tharp
• “The Book of Not Knowing” – Peter Ralston
• “Loving What Is – The Four Questions That Can Change Your LIfe” Byron Katie
• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success – Carol Dweck
• “Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise” by Anders Ericsson

Economics

• Economic growth of top 10 countries since 1961 (1:44)
• Ray Dalio says the economy looks like 1937
• Simon Black and US Debt
• How the Economy Works – Ray Dalio
• The 1 Percent Rule: Why a Few People Get Most of the Rewards
• Thermodynamics of Wealth – David Robb
• Paradigm Shifts – Ray Dalio
• “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand
• Free Stuff for Everyone – David Robb
• Robert Shiller – Narrative Economics
• Cam Hawkins interviews Rich Friesen – Extreme Events
• Six stages of long economic and political cycles – Ray Dalio

Hotseat Coaching

• Cam Hawkins First Session – Demonstration for his show (49:54)
• Alumni Meeting and Hotseat Work (74:49)
• Tracy O’Quinn talks to “Money.”

Neuroscience

• “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science” Norman Doidge

Podcast – Richard Friesen is guest on popular podcasts

• Links to Engaging Podcasts

Politics – Healing our Political Divide

• The Alternative to Ideology
• Healing the Political Divide: An interview with Richard Friesen
• The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
• “In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action” L.K. Samuels
• Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault – Stephen R.C. Hicks
• Healing the Political Divide – Rich and John on Politics

Relationships and Sexuality – Creating rapport with ourselves and partners

• “Come as You Are” – The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
• “The Erotic Mind” by Jack Morin
• “Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence” by Esther Perel
• “The Seven Principles of Making Marriage Work” by John Gottman, Ph.D.
• “Say What You Love Unconditionally” Mackenzie Jordan
• “Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life” Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D.
• The Somatica Method – Celeste & Danielle
• “The Way of the Superior Man” – David Deida
• “unHIDDEN: A Book For Men and Those Confused by Them” – Robert Kandell
• “The Art of Loving – Key Insights” Erich Fromm

Risk: Managing risk and reward

• A Poker Champion on High Risk Decisions
• When Trading Platforms Break: Your Survival Plan
• The Biggest Bluff – Maria Konnikova

Success – Creating Success and Wealth

• Principles: Book Excerpts from Ray Dalio
• 3 Stages of Failure – James Clear
• Winning Minds – Handling loss (77:54)
• Principles for Success – Mini Video – Ray Dalio
• Conversations with Money – Webinar for Traders (71:16)
• 3 Reasons You Aren’t Making the Money that You Deserve Yet
• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
• Grit – The most powerful quality for success
• 20 Pictures – Condensed Wisdom
• Benjamin Hardy – Own your time and future self before 8:00 am
• The EASIEST Way to PROGRAM Your SUBCONSCIOUS MIND to GET What You Want!
• The Importance of having a Massively Transformative Purpose – Peter Diamandis

Thinking and Mental Structures

• Thinking Human Beings: L. Michael Hall
• Inversion Thinking – James Clear
• Truth and Knowing
• What is Genius? Is There a Genius Trading State?, by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.
• “The Book of Not Knowing” by Peter Ralston
• Exercise: “Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life” by Byron Katie
• “Wrongologist” Kathryn Schulz
• Designer Mindset States – Michael Hall
• “Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counter Intuition” Michael J. Mauboussin
• Scepticism: The Wisdom of Denial
• Principles by Ray Dalio
• Blame Thinking – Michael Hall

Trading Mistakes – Pain, Suffering and Mistakes: Mastering Emotions and Persistent Trading MIstakes

• Impulse Trading Isn’t What You Think
• 13 Nightmare Trading Traps Video (83:09)
• Trading Games for Profit (64:02)
• Your Wealth Thermostat – Video (11:40)
• Persistent Trading Mistakes – Video 2019-01-03 (76:02)
• Creating Principles from Mistakes – Ray Dalio
• “A Brief Note About the End of “Human Suffering” Carl Buchheit NLP Marin
• “Using Our Brain for a Change – Our Four Brains” Carl Buchheit – Marin NLP
• Confidence Circle – The Painful Path to Trading Mastery – 7 minute video (7:22)

Trading Fundamentals – Technicals and Strategy

• Making Money from Market Moods – Video (23:44)
• Market Sentiment – MarketPsych
• Order Flow Trading Introduction
• “Jigsaw – Seven Effective Trading Setup” Webinar with Peter Davies (58:12)
• Next Level Trading Performance – Dr. Brett Steenbarger
• Fundamentals of Trading Strategy Creation – Rogerio Amado
• Making Money from Market Moods (23:44)

Trading – Master Mind development to our highest selves

• Mark Douglas – How to think like a professional trader
• Five Traits of Market Wizards
• Mind Muscles: Sacred Space – Bubble Exercise
• Mind Muscles: Brokerage Statement Exercise
• Mind Muscles: SET Journal Exercises
• Designing Emotions Exercise
• Mind Muscles Self-Coaching Precepts
• Rich Friesen breaks his internal limits – video (5:33)
• Stepping into the Master Trader’s Bubble
• How to Get Motivated When You Don’t Feel Like It – James Clear
• Paradigm Shifts Part II & III. Van K. Tharp

Transformation – Creating the life we want

• Quotes I love that challenge me
• Identity Based Habits – James Clear
• Process and Outomes – James Clear
• Clarifying Important Values and Creating Rapport Exercise
• Loving What Is – The Four Questions that can change your life by Bryron Katie
• 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos – Jordan Peterson
• Entropy: Why Life Always Seems to Get More Complicated – James Clear
• How We Create a Personal Reality Full of All the Experiences We Don’t Want
• How to Use SMART Goal to Become Highly Successful in Life
• The Art of Living: Stoic Lessons on Making the Most of Life – Nick Wignall
• Pithy Precepts
• “Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life” Martin E.P. Seligman Ph.D.
• Wisdom from a third grade dropout (10:23)
• Hope for the future is critical for today – Benjamin Hardy

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