The gap between your trading plan on paper and what actually happens in your head when you're staring at live charts is... something else entirely. Your strategy looks clean when the market is flat. But the moment volatility spikes and your position swings hard, suddenly every rule you wrote down feels like optional suggestions. Your conviction wavers. Your stop losses start looking negotiable. And that initial thesis that seemed so solid? Now it's just noise competing against every impulse telling you to do something—anything—different. That's the real game.