Everything you do outside of your main job should reinforce your main job in reverse.

If you want to trade, backtesting, monitoring the market, reading market sentiment, and reviewing trades are definitely core activities.

But the key is

when you're not trading, what are you doing?

Many people learn and do things during the day that have nothing to do with trading.

Studying a major that isn't useful, taking a job that is tiring and doesn’t build skills, just to earn a few extra hundred.

These may seem harmless, but they are consuming your most valuable resources: attention and cognitive capacity.

Sometimes, earning a little more money isn’t as valuable as switching to a job that allows you to think clearly and also learn about trading;

or at least allows you to review market conditions during your commute or lunch breaks.

Even if you don’t want to change your career path for now, you can optimize the corners of your life:

Playing poker with friends can train your sense of probability and risk better than scrolling through short videos;

Watching a bit of psychology can enhance your sensitivity to emotions more than reading entertainment gossip.

These small adjustments, over time, will lead you to suddenly realize:

You may not feel like you are putting in more effort, but you have indeed become stronger.

Because decisions compound,

and those who put their attention in the right places every day,

will ultimately become more like 'that winning person.'