I wasn't alone on the road to wasteful investment. I had friends who joined me or most likely encouraged me into it, but right now they are cursing cryptocurrency.
This is the reason why sometimes; I feel hesitant towards teaching other people around me regarding cryptocurrency in general. It might come to a point where they will blame me if their initial investment is at a loss.
1. How to control my emotions in cryptocurrency: before now I had issues with controlling my emotions generally and even though I had intelligence on certain things. My emotions becloud my sense of judgment. But after losing serially over one year in cryptocurrency I think that aspect is improved.
Being emotionless is one of the important factors when it comes to investing. Only anime watchers will know this but if you know the Protagonist of the anime "Classroom of the Elite" then be like him or if you didn't watch it yet, watch it then you might become emotionless after watching it
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Anyway, I'm full of emotion when I started investing into crypto and because of that, I made reckless decisions. I sold at a loss, got FOMO'ed etc. etc. but over the years, I learned how to be emotionless and until now I'm still the same. I don't care about the volatility. I don't panic at all, and I always stick to my strategies.
2. Letting people control you: I have come to discover that there are so many different characters in cryptocurrency both online and offline(close to you) many of them with different schools of thought on investment, trading, and cryptocurrency in general, as a newbie I have learnt that you ought be careful on the knowledge you get feed. Many of which are wrong, unproven, and sent out by the sender based on what they were paid.
That's also the reason why I always research twice before making decisions. In the world of internet, there are always information out there that are fake that's why don't focus on one but, if possible, research twice. Letting people control you is a bad thing. Just follow your decisions based on the research you've made. Just follow your own strategy that works for you.
4. No shame in starting from scratch: using myself as an example I am starting fresh and going back to the very basics and I am not ashamed to admit that. The good news is that I am better experienced and more mature.
Traders started from scratch. Businessmen started from scratch. Everything comes from a scratch.
There is nothing wrong with starting with scratch. What's wrong is that you will not start to make that scratch. If you made a mistake, start over again. Successful people made mistakes more than what you think before they became a successful one. The first try you might fail, the second one you might fail again, if you succeeded in the third one and you already know what will do then that will make you a successful one.