Rewrite the verification notes in the path (route). Do not turn hits or misses into performance.

I looked back three months of verification notes and counted circles and crosses.

There were 41 circles and 53 crosses. There was nothing else written.

...So, what should I do with this?

When I finished counting, my hand stopped.

I know there are more crosses. However, I can’t move forward from there.

I will write here about redoing the notebook that night as it happened.

What I changed wasn’t how I wrote the results, but the writing area itself.

Good evening!

This is Masashi^^

What I stopped this time is treating verification as a test of answers.

Instead, I decided to leave the path I took in that one attempt.

Instead of circles and crosses, I will write which conditions aligned.

At the three-week mark, I could narrow down one place where I was losing.

There were 41 circles and 53 crosses. That night, I hadn’t written anything beyond those..

✅ Even after finishing the counting, there’s nothing left to do next

While counting, I was quite focused.

I tracked with my finger, writing each positive mark by hand.

At the moment I finished, a strange emptiness washed over me.

Even when I totaled it, I didn’t have anything to decide for tomorrow.

Even when I calculated the win rate, it was the same.

Just seeing numbers didn’t lead to any action.

That’s when I finally realized it.

This notebook had become a scorecard, not a tool for verification.

A scorecard tells you whether something is good or bad.

But it doesn’t tell you what to fix.

After writing three months, I only understood that.

Still, just understanding it was a gain.

Because I could see what was missing, I could decide what to create next.

✅ A scorecard shows good or bad, but doesn’t tell you what to fix。

If the total is there but you still don’t know what to do tomorrow, that isn’t verification—it’s grading.

? If you only write the results, people read it as a score

When someone starts a verification, they usually write the results first.

Date, direction, whether you won or lost.

Up to here, it’s natural to write and easy to continue.

The problem is closing the page there.

A page with only results looks like a table.

People unconsciously read a table as a scorecard.

Once you start reading it as a score, the next thing you’ll wonder is the number of wins and losses this week.

As soon as the numbers matter, the notebook’s role has already changed.

It’s better to separate the place for checking results and the place for deciding the next steps.

For a long time, I mixed these two in one notebook.

If they’re mixed, even the writer’s feelings get mixed in there.

During weeks with a losing streak, I had no energy to write about procedures.

? A page with only results looks like a table. The table is read as a score。

I kept the place for verifying results separate from deciding the next steps.

? More carefulness can’t be used in the next screen

If you lay out ten losses, the conclusion is almost always the same: be more careful.

That word, "more careful," doesn’t lead to any action on the next screen.

Because the carefulness is determined by mood, not by you.

Mood changes day by day, so even in the same situation the lines shift.

Then, how should you write so that it becomes an action?

If you downstage it to a form that can be checked later, it becomes an action.

For example, write down in advance that you will descend once you divide the determined location.

This way you can tell later whether you wrote it or not.

Only what you understand becomes material for the next week.

Until reflection words become actions, next week you’ll stop at the same place.

That’s why I created the action section before the reflection section.

? In the next attempt, what can change is not the feeling but the written actions。

Reflection words should be broken down into verifiable actions before recording.

? I stopped the results column and created a route column

The new notebook has only four columns.

What you checked before entering and what you didn’t.

Whether you decided in advance where to finish and whether you could keep the decided amount.

The wins and losses column is placed in the bottom-right corner, small.

Moving the position changes the reading order.

When it is in the bottom-right corner, you only glance at it at the end.

As a result, you read the four left ones properly.

The amount you write has actually decreased.

Previously I wrote long impressions, so that whole thing disappeared.

The time I spent writing impressions became the same as the time I used to reread.

Impressions cannot be read the day after writing, so they lose their meaning.

? The wins and losses column is placed in the bottom-right corner, small。

Example: [Checked: position / Not checked: state / Exit: decided in advance / Acceptable: could keep]

? Write one round, actual writing method

In practice, I write in two steps: before giving an order and after giving it.

Before issuing, I write the verified items and the place to finish.

This takes about twenty seconds.

[Check: position and state / Exit: place decided just before / Acceptable: 1% of account] This one line.

After issuing, I only write what actually happened.

Whether I could finish at the decided place or if I moved in the middle.

If I moved, I add a note about what I was looking at at that time.

Usually it’s something outside the screen.

That I had no time, or I was dragging the previous session.

When this appears, you understand that the fix is outside of the market.

Problems outside the market can’t be solved by looking at the chart.

? If you write the reason for moving, usually something outside the screen comes up。

Example: [Check: position and state / Exit: decided just before / Acceptable: 1% of account]

⚠ The route of winning rounds should be written

When I started, I was lazy about this.

I felt winning rounds didn’t need to be written.

Since things went well, why bother.

But after three weeks of reading, this is what helped.

Among the winning rounds, there were items I had skipped verifying.

Those skipped winning rounds cause me to repeat the same thing the next week.

Moreover, because they carried a pleasant memory, they stuck more firmly.

Compared to reflecting on losing rounds, this was worse.

So now I fill the same four columns for winning rounds as well.

Filling them takes less than a minute, and gaps are visible at a glance.

⚠ Even for winning rounds, skipping them causes next week's repetition。

Memories of winning rounds stay strong because of the pleasant feeling.

? After three weeks, I read for the first time

I don’t reread on the same day I wrote it.

Because on that day, my feelings at writing remain.

I end up convincing myself of what I wrote and finish there.

After three weeks, that conviction wears off.

Three weeks earlier, that self is almost a different person.

Reading as someone else reveals omissions.

The question, why didn’t I verify here, naturally arises.

The moment that question arises is the most learnable moment.

I fixed Sunday mornings for reading days.

If I tried to do it when I had time, I’d never finish.

? The self from three weeks ago is almost a different person. That’s why omissions stand out。

I fix the reading day by day of the week. If I wait for time, I’ll never do it.

✔ If the same column remains empty, that’s your current task

There is only one thing to do when reading.

Mark the empty items with a check.

When you line up three weeks, the marks gather in one column.

In my case, the most common empty column was Exit.

I kept thinking about where to enter, and finishing place was left to chance.

I wasn’t aware of this at all.

I always thought I was thinking it through properly.

Seeing the marks accumulate, I finally acknowledged it as a habit.

After admitting it, it became faster, and from the next week I started writing the Exit first.

If a single task is decided, fixing it is easier than I thought.

The hard part isn’t fixing it but deciding where to fix it.

✔ When marks accumulate in one column, I could finally admit it as my own habit。

Example: [Three weeks of empties: Exit 8 times / Position 1 time / Acceptable 0 times]

❌ Do not fix two or more issues at the same time

Columns where marks accumulate are usually not just one.

The second and third appear as well.

If you try to fix all of them at once, you’ll almost certainly fail.

I tried once and stopped the notebook after two weeks.

More things to do makes writing itself a burden.

So now I fix only one, and send the rest to the next three weeks.

It may seem roundabout, but this was faster in the end.

Fixing one may cause related columns to fill as well.

If you start with the Exit, the Acceptable column also fills naturally.

Connected items move together.

❌ Fix only one. Send the second and beyond to the next three weeks。

Fixing one item can cause connected items to move together.

? When verification doesn’t continue, what’s happening

I don’t think the stoppage is a matter of willpower.

When it stops, usually there are too many writing areas.

Trying to keep everything increases the effort per session.

With more effort, you stop writing in busy weeks.

And once you skip once, it’s hard to go back.

So I narrowed it to four columns.

With four, you can fill them even on tired days.

There’s also another common stopping pattern.

You write but don’t reread, which means you lose meaning as you write.

If you do not reread, the writer loses sense of what they wrote.

Deciding both the writing day and the reading day is what creates a sustained pattern.

? Stopping verification wasn’t a matter of willpower but too many writing areas。

Deciding both writing and reading days creates a lasting pattern.

? Even with tools, you still write the route yourself

There are many tools to help discover the route.

Some lay out candidates, and I use them too.

However, the route I write today cannot be filled by tools.

What I verify and what I skip is inside my head, invisible from outside.

Rather, adding tools makes the feeling of having verified come first.

When possibilities are visible, you get a sense of having finished researching.

What you see and what you verified are different things.

So on the weeks you add tools, you end up filling more columns.

When you try filling, you see a pattern where your own display mismatches.

That mismatch becomes the next place to fix.

? What you see and what you confirmed are different things。

In the weeks you add tools, you increase the number of route columns you fill.

⭕ This approach may not suit everyone

Finally, note that it may not suit you either.

If you enter dozens of times a day, four columns may be too many.

In that case, start by keeping only the Exit column.

Also, if your results are already stable, you may not need this at all.

If you’re stable, the habit is probably already in your procedure.

This writing method is useful when you recognize you keep repeating the same failures.

If you repeat but don’t know where you keep repeating,

this may help you break that cycle.

It takes time for results to change.

Three weeks, fix one thing, three more weeks.

It’s modest, but I feel I’m moving forward compared to when I was counting circles and crosses.

⭕ It’s effective when you know you’re repeating the same mistakes but can’t identify where。

Better for: people who enter dozens of times a day, or whose results are already stable

? Summary: Leave the route, not the hit or miss

After counting three months’ worth of circles and crosses, there was not a single thing to do tomorrow.

A scorecard tells you good or bad, but it won’t tell you what to fix.

So I rebuilt the notebook with four columns. The actual setup is [Check: position and state / Exit: place decided just before / Acceptable: 1% of account]. It takes twenty seconds to write.

I also fill the same columns for winning rounds. Because skipping them when you win causes you to repeat the same thing the next week.

I read it on Sunday morning three weeks later. If I read it on the day, I’ll end up convincing myself and stopping there.

When the empty marks gather in one column, that becomes your current task. Fix only one, and move the second and beyond to the next three weeks.

If you still feel verification isn’t changing anything, start by reducing the number of columns to four or fewer ^^

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