After I smashed several thousand pieces of tea set, I realized an extremely important truth about investment!

Incredible, several tea friends sent me private messages last night to tell me the secret to not breaking tea sets for years, directly showing me a common mistake that I and everyone else make in investing.

First, they told me that they also smashed tea sets at the beginning, but later they stopped, so what is the secret here?

It's very simple: keep your tea set on your table.

They said that their relatively expensive tea sets have never left the tea table since they bought them.

But can you not wash them?

You can, but you just don't take the tea set to the kitchen or bathroom to wash; all cleaning can be done on the tea table.

Most of the time when cups or ceramics break, it happens while going to the kitchen, as it's easy to break them during transport. When you carry one cup, it's troublesome, and carrying a bunch inevitably has a high risk, and whenever you are moving them, there’s always a chance of dropping them; it’s impossible to be 100% careful.

So the best way is to keep the ceramics on the tea table, rinse them with water, then dry them with a tea towel, and when you drink next time, just reheat with boiling water on the first brew.

Wow, this is indeed the trick, it suddenly became clear, all my thousands of dollars worth of ceramics were completely wasted!

Then I thought, isn't this similar to investment?

The core of not breaking tea sets is not about how careful you are; no matter how careful you try to be, there will be times when you are not careful. My previous misconception was that after breaking one today, I would be more careful, but then a month later, I forgot to be very careful, and broke the second one.

Carefulness in this matter is something we can forget!

So the best way is to avoid letting expensive and fragile items frequently leave a safe zone, which prevents them from having the chance to break.

In terms of investment, it's summed up in one sentence:

Truly mature risk control is not about improving your ability to avoid mistakes each time you operate, but directly reducing the frequency of operations, handling, and decision-making that you must do.

Every trip from the tea table to the kitchen exposes you to risk. The more times you do this, breaking something becomes a matter of probability and timing.

In investing, many losses are not because you misjudged the overall direction, but because you get caught up in these "transport processes":

For example, frequently switching positions: BTC, ETH, you were originally holding them well, but suddenly you want to improve efficiency, toggling back and forth, ultimately either selling low or buying high.

There are also various scenarios of frequent transfers, cross-platform transactions, chasing yields, just to earn an additional 2% annualized rate, moving USDT from Platform A to Platform B, then mining yields on Chain C; a veteran would have experienced this.

A few years ago, I quickly transferred 150,000 to a certain chain for high yields to seize the head mining opportunity, but because I hurriedly filled in the contract address incorrectly, I lost all yields accumulated over a long time.

There are many scenes of making frequent decisions, just like carrying a plate of ceramics back and forth; breaking something is just a matter of time.

So, this experience has led me to summarize my investment principles as:

1️⃣ Expensive things should be moved less, meaning core positions should not easily leave the "tea table".

Long-term assets should not be frequently moved, just like fragile items should stay in the safe zone.

For instance, BTC, ETH, long-term USDT holdings are not meant for everyday fiddling. They should be kept in cold storage or long-term accounts; don't move them back and forth just for small gains.

2️⃣ Yield is not the only standard; path risk must also be considered.

A product with an 8% annual yield, simple path, and clear safety may be better than one with a 15% annual yield that requires cross-chain transactions, authorizations, staking, and keeping an eye on the liquidation line.

Because the latter looks high yield, but essentially you are carrying ceramics through the kitchen, living room, and stairwell.

3️⃣ Risk control is not about having steady hands, but about shortening processes.

You need to design a system that allows you to operate less often.

So, overall.

Many risks do not come from erroneous judgments, but from assets being frequently moved out of the safe zone.

The essence of risk control is not to master not shaking hands, but to reduce the number of times you carry plates, walk, and pass through those places where you are bound to drop cups.

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