Introduction The Research Problem The purpose of this paper is to offer one vision of developing a methodological theory of mixed methods research co-equal with that of quantitative and qualitative research. I use a case study of the US Army Command & General Staff College engaged in a redesign of its curriculum, its teaching practices […]
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Profitable ETF Trading Strategies: Trading From the Zero-State
One of the most important qualities of the professional trader is the ability to manage your psychological state. Psychology is such an important component of shorter term trading that it can make all the difference between success and failure. In my own trading, the essential state of mind I must be in to trade at […]
Reflective learning and Self Talk
At our trading workshop this weekend, wr reviewed a numbver of what I consider to be milion dollar ideas: ideaswhich, over the course of a lifetime should produce a net value add greater than a million dollars in trading performance. While we were doing that in the middle of our assembled traders and institutional money […]
Look at the excellence all around you; Where’s yours?
No generation of people has had more things available to get in the way of finding excellence in the moment. We are so busy and distracted by our lifestyle that we are never in the moment. We are always somewhere else. When we are at work, we are thinkiing about dinner. At dinner we are […]
The path to mastery, with emotional intelligence
The studies in the Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance describe the path to mastery as: (1) Deliberative Practice (2) Time spent at Deliberative Practice (3) Assistance from a mentor. Deliberative practice can be broken down to: (1) Identifying a long-term outcome (2) Breaking down the skills that lead to that outcome into its […]
“When you come to a fork in the road, take it” (Y. Berra)
Professor Roubini is the new “it” guy for economists, a pretty interesting character. he says the following, which is full of win. The government finds itself in the position of trying to coax people back into the same behaviors that they were engaged in before, so that all the people who earned their livelihood on supporting […]
The journey to wellness: asking for help is the first step
Most people who seek help dealing with emotional problems find relief, recovery, and healing. They don’t forget what they’ve been through, but they learn ways to make sense of their experience so that it doesn’t control their lives. More is known now than ever before about how to help people deal with the complicated feelings […]
The journey of recovery: overcoming obstacles
Most people want to make changes to better themselves. Sometime these actions are in pursuit of a higher goal, but many other times, more challenging too, are the efforts to simply regain the peace of mind and inner balance we once knew before a time of stress and trauma. People making life changes often face […]