The Edge: Psychiatrist and performance coach

No doubt you have seen the Showtime series “Billions” in which Axe Capital has employed a full-time psychiatrist-performance coach to enhance profitability.  The role does exist at many financial and hedge fund firms, but confidentiality may be lacking. One never knows for sure what a corporately hired counselor can keep from the employer.  Some have gone on to retain this service privately to reap the benefits of confidentiality and full disclosure. 

Much of the role of a psychiatrist-performance coach is to cultivate and enhance a resilient mentality that allows you to make high-risk decisions during stressful and uncertain times.  Whether in finance or the rest of life problem behaviors persist, and patterns develop.  Once a habit forms, it can be tough to change. Ask yourself these questions:

·         Have I become an anxious trader who over trades despite low volatility?

·         Have I developed a revenge pattern emerge where I make hurried decisions to quickly recover losses?

·         Have I bought into the social pressure of feeling guilty regarding my success and wealth that I may have started sabotaging myself?

A Nurse Practitioner performance coach trained in psychiatry and physical health (family practice) can help you stay on the edge of profitability. By engaging you in a holistic process that examines the emotional roots of your poor performance, your physiological changes that occur as a result of age and heredity, your diet, sleep pattern, social life, sexuality, and even spirituality. 

Developing a resilient mindset allows you to analyze and interpret complex, ambiguous, stressful events by distinguishing fact from fantasy. Imagine rising above being a victim of your feelings.  Developing this mindset requires commitment, consistency, and clarity.  The method begins with comprehensive physical, psychiatric, sexual and spiritual evaluation. A comprehensive strategy is devised to tackle the problems with primal precision power. 

This sort of performance coaching is not for the faint of heart. It will get to the cause of your performance anxiety and inconsistency. The only reason not to engage is if you are okay with the status quo.  

Stay tuned for subsequent posts that will shed light on the power of emotions affecting decisions, and how your lack of purpose is creating ambiguity, and what your sexual thoughts may reveal about your fears and desires.