Alistair Milne@alistairmilne
There are probably many young people out there in crypto-land (and perhaps not so young) struggling with feelings of 'I don't deserve this' and 'I just got lucky'
I'm here to tell you that you're wrong
A thread...
https://twitter.com/alistairmilne/status/1442441951660453889?s=21Alistair Milne@alistairmilne
Imposter syndrome is real, as is low self-esteem, self worth issues, etc.. Many people struggle with giving credit to themselves the first time they 'win'. I know that I did when I sold my first business aged 23.
You've probably been told 'you ain't shit' more than once
https://twitter.com/alistairmilne/status/1442441954768400388?s=21Alistair Milne@alistairmilne
The stuff critics say serves to motivate us, but sadly humans tend to absorb the negatives more than the positives and keep hold of them.
So here are some reasons, assuming you didn't lie/scam/cheat/rob anyone, why you *do* deserve your success in crypto, now and going forward
https://twitter.com/alistairmilne/status/1442441956542464005?s=21Alistair Milne@alistairmilne
You were open-minded - most people reject crypto out of hand, and have for years despite all the evidence and knowledge freely available. This immediately puts you into a group of just ~5% of humans on the planet
You were willing to learn about sometihng new when most were not
https://twitter.com/alistairmilne/status/1442441958362910720?s=21Alistair Milne@alistairmilne
You took a risk - crypto is/was ultra-high risk, and few people have the sort of risk tollerance required to invest something meaningful
You took risks that the vast majority of people would consider reckless, because you believed in the potential of crypto
https://twitter.com/alistairmilne/status/1442441960178917380?s=21Alistair Milne@alistairmilne
You figured out what was signal, and what was noise. Ignoring years of mainstream FUD, talking heads like Nouriel, etc.
You learned how to use new tech where any mistake could lose you a significant amount. You were prepared to be your own bank.
https://twitter.com/alistairmilne/status/1442441962116710403?s=21Alistair Milne@alistairmilne
Due to the above, you were earlier than some of the 'smartest' money on earth who are now scrambling to get exposure.
So yes, you deserve where you are and what comes next.
WAGMI
https://twitter.com/alistairmilne/status/1442441963979087872?s=21Alistair Milne@alistairmilne
(The question is, what will you do with it?)
https://twitter.com/alistairmilne/status/1442441968496353280?s=21It’s been a pleasure sharing this space with you guys. Here’s to many more years of good health, increasing financial prosperity, opulence, shit posting & memes. I feel quite the opposite for a few reasons, the lesser reasons being how many people I tried telling about Bitcoin even previous to 2017, how many I told to check out this forum, how many I told that they could suck their GPUs on crypto and make a bit of crypto change (that would now be worth massive amounts)..
And mainly because I did not come upon my crypto by having the privilege of having disposable income to simply buy in with, rather I worked my ass off to stack sats, easily a thousand hours, in multiple ways to gain a few satoshis here and there, from spending many many full days on exchanges watching for trading opportunities, watching multiple exchanges for arbitrage opportunities, watching new coins coming on the market, watching for volume hits preceding pumps, being in with what communities were interested in (or shilling)/where the sentiment was..
I worked my ass off for what meager amount I have been able to accumulate, had the balls to HODL almost everything I have ever been able to accumulate, have been able to resist temptation to sell to buy a house or an expensive car or fancy luxuries I am accustomed to living without, still to this day..
I have absolutely zero sense of “I don’t deserve this”..
Even things I have got “lucky” on weren’t scammy and I feel good about them..