This is not a game of racing against others, but a process of conversing with time and oneself.
Author: jenniekusu
Once again, a historic liquidation day; for the vast majority of ordinary people, it was just another unremarkable Saturday.
This is also a typical day in the Crypto world: when attention is consumed by the endless stream of information on Twitter and the pop-ups from exchange apps, everything else in the world seems irrelevant to the current emotions.
This is the dopamine that has been tightly gripped by a highly volatile market.
In just five minutes, everyone falls from the illusion of A8 to the reality of zero, only to reignite their fighting spirit in the FOMO of the next bottom-fishing tweet.
The rise and fall itself has become a cycle of entertainment, a melodramatic reversal directed by opinion leaders and chip manipulators, while we are merely spectators, and even our hand cream has been wiped away.
"Rationality," "patience," and "long-termism" seem almost out of place here.
Most people do not want to be that way; rather, in the face of each massive price fluctuation, rationality loses to pleasure, patience loses to anxiety, and long-termism loses to short-term stimulation.
People like us, who are stable at our core, are called the most lethal mid-curve—wanting to get rich overnight through Crypto but not wanting to stay up all night watching the market.
So the question is: how do we reach the other shore?
1/ Know that the gods created here are beyond ordinary
Crypto is a place that creates and destroys gods. What was on the altar yesterday may be forgotten by the market today.
But every person who has truly "reached the shore" shares some common traits.
From $TRUMP to the recent $Binance life, these leaders in China (@hexiecs @0xSunNFT @brc20niubi @0xcryptowizard @CryptoDevinL @yuyue_chris and others) have not only achieved great results but are also reshuffling the liquidity distribution in the industry. The most critical part is that they constantly write reviews, representing an infinitely progressive version.
These daily grindings are their choice to grow little by little during the time when others are playing or sleeping. When opportunities arise, they can immediately identify "this is going to surge" and dare to place heavy bets.
These "good fortunes" are backed by years of practice, trial and error, reviews, and experience accumulation, a sixth sense honed through countless falls in the mud.
Everyone wants to become a god, but not everyone can. The difference between ordinary people and gods lies in whether one can achieve unity of knowledge and action, whether one can continuously learn and improve, whether one can break oneself down and start over, and whether one can challenge the weaknesses of human nature. Even those who are determined to become gods often fade into the crowd during those unbearable nights or in the inevitable liquidation of leveraged contracts.
But there is no need to be superstitious about gods. When we realize that not everyone has that luck, it is perhaps more important to discern which aspects under the halo of the gods can be learned and practiced: such as narrative recognition ability, information flow processing methods, and risk-bearing structures; and which require time, resources, and threshold accumulation, such as relationship networks and traffic leverage.
This industry continues to create single-coin miracles and high school miracles because of many learners and practitioners who are like wizards, allowing the god-making pool to expand infinitely.
2/ Often walk by the river, wet your shoes to feel the water temperature
Just looking from the shore is useless; to understand how this industry operates, one must get into the water.
The rapid changes in Crypto narrative hotspots mean that whatever we do here, we must feel the pulse of the market to sense the direction of emotions, funds, and narratives. Because being disconnected from frontline information will slow our judgment and reactions, causing us to miss the most glorious moments of the feast.
In this space, whether doing projects or product entrepreneurship, there are role models worth learning from, such as @heyibinance @DrPayFi. The attitude of customer service and the mindset of getting hands dirty at any time can earn the trust of most people and are necessary conditions to continue dealing cards at the table. Those founders who only regard product technology as the sacred center, once they become oblivious to external matters, will mostly lead themselves and their teams into dead ends. When the day comes that they must turn around, they will find that the pitfalls they should have avoided are still there. In contrast, founders who persist in addressing user concerns, discovering market changes, and refreshing outdated perceptions will emerge when the tide comes and continue to evolve when the tide recedes.
In this space, whether as programmers or market operators, one must either serve as a spokesperson for a project and gradually expand in a specific area (like @MaraCakeHotSale), or establish a personal brand while gaining one or several stable incomes to expand networks (like @Ru7Longcrypto). This not only clarifies how to start a business here but also builds a communication channel, big or small, in advance. With a little diligence and extroversion, the potential benefits brought by the leverage of influence will exceed expectations.
As community contributors, KOLs, or airdrop hunters, knowing which narratives and projects are trending and participating in potential interaction opportunities already constitutes a significant success; next, one needs to use more research, more precise judgments, and even more hidden underwater information to obtain their own returns. It is precisely because of the characteristic of Crypto transcending geographical boundaries that people from all over the world can participate in global projects. This symbiotic relationship also determines that a portion of the benefits will always be distributed to them, which is why there are so many agencies and studios in this industry, dividing various feasts.
Even as an ordinary retail investor here, to find suitable investment opportunities, one must often be active in various group chats and channels, otherwise, when we see a piece of news from mainstream media, sorry, we have already exited the liquidity.
Therefore, often "wetting your shoes" is not only because there are more short-term wealth-making opportunities in high liquidity areas, but more importantly, it helps us find our ecological niche:
I find that I may not be good at trading but excel at storytelling, so I look for an operational job to help projects grow from a narrative perspective and gain greater influence; at the same time, I meet more peers and partners through this job, build my personal brand, and start becoming a content-creating KOL, continuously producing more quality content to help more projects grow; thus obtaining more collaboration opportunities and early investment chances, advancing to become a core player in the industry, accessing more industry resources, and starting to connect more players.
Examples worth learning from include @mdzzi as a core ecological position in the Perp DEX track, @LeotheHorseman in the InfoFi and prediction market track, @silverfang88 in the abstract tweet track, and @snow949494 @mscryptojiayi @dov_wo in the agency track, and @rubywxt1 @starzqeth in the deep research Chinese podcast track.
Thus, even someone like me, who has only been in the industry for two or three years and has not fully experienced a complete cycle, can quickly gain perspectives and asset accumulation that other industries cannot provide.
3/ Seek and establish a self-sustaining positive feedback structure
Recently, I read in an article: "Assets equal identity." The way a person gains identity in their society is intertwined with the way they hold assets.
Crypto, as an asset, naturally places us in a free realm where we must take full responsibility for ourselves. This also reminds us that the ultimate test of Crypto is not "how to make quick money," but "how not to be destroyed by volatility."
During moments of extreme fear and extreme greed, people often say "survive." Because the scale of assets can determine the lower limit of lifestyle, but the mindset structure determines the upper limit. If happiness entirely depends on the rise and fall of assets, life will only fluctuate like a candlestick chart.
Those who truly live "comfortably," whether industry veterans or newcomers, derive their positive feedback not just from prices, but from the compounding effects of growth, connections, creation, and cognition.
I resonate with many tweets from @ClaraChengGo and @wsjack22; these are also core topics I have often contemplated since entering the industry.
Over the past three years, after fully experiencing the process of Crypto startups from 0 to 1, I have gradually begun to build my positive feedback structure in this industry:
Because I enjoy "creation" and "connection," I exchange content and business development for returns and opportunities. Because I am passionate about "sharing" and "altruism," I use community and events to consolidate consensus and hearts.
At the same time, because the industry's "virtuality" often accompanies a sense of "emptiness," it is essential to find "groundedness" in real life, making operations outside of Crypto particularly important.
Whether accompanying family, gathering with a few friends, or going on an outdoor adventure or an impromptu trip, what Crypto offers is precisely the freedom of choice in time and space.
Even if I haven't earned (nor lost) earth-shattering money, if I can find a long-term comfortable and continuously growing work and lifestyle here, congratulations, you are already doing great.
Crypto does not favor those with stable cores. It favors the surges of emotions, the twists of narratives, and the sparks of speculation.
It took me two or three years to gradually accept this fact and to understand: this is not a game of racing against others, but a process of conversing with time and oneself.
I may not become a god or a god-maker, and I may miss countless opportunities for overnight wealth; but I have found my ecological niche here, built my positive feedback system, and made life more creative and free.
I have begun to stop worrying about "outpacing others" and instead focus on "going far."
If Crypto is a turbulent river, then those with stable cores may not swim the fastest, but they can always reach the other shore at their own pace, little by little.
And time will eventually reward them.
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