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"If you feel like giving up, remember the reason why are you here in the first place" - A quote from a close friend.

My crypto experience is been a roller coaster, sometimes its up but most of the time, its always going down.
Looks like I always have a bad day here, especially on losing some of my money with my investments and trading.
The life during this pandemic has been hard, losing your jobs and trying to find another one but ended up losing it again.
I almost give up, luckily I have a friends who always reminded to keep on trying, and don't lose hope.

Well, I tried to invest again in crypto market and try my luck here again and so far its getting better. I was able to buy at the bottom price and took some profit already, looks like the best experience in life is indeed came from a failure so I feel like I have the urge to share this to everyone, especially to beginners who still don't know the path to success but still here trying to learn things. I personally have the list to remember so I keep the pressure in me and it motivates me everyday, here's the list that you can also have.

1. Learn like never before - Cryptomarket is growing and almost every year there's a new trend, I'm too careless before about innovation and it cost me a lot of miss opportunity so this time, I'll me sure to study every trend, and will do my best to invest as much as possible because there's money on every new trend.

2. Learn from your mistakes - There's no perfect investors/traders, we all have commit mistakes but most of us failed to take advantage of those mistakes and quit easily so I highly encourage you not to give up easily if you lose money or commit mistakes, again learn from it and do better next time because there's always next time here.

3. Set up your Goal - This is very important, having your goal will take you the places that you really want to be and you will be more motivated. Always set up your goal, to keep yourself active and if you think you are still far from reality, that's ok because one day you'll reach your destination and that is because you never give up.

4. Have a mentor - I know its not easy to trust someone here, but I'm sure you have a friend that you can really talk about personal staff take care of those people because they can give you a good life lesson as well, and they will cheer you up every time you feel like giving up especially if you lose your confidence.

5. Be Thankful - What ever challenges you're into right now, always be thankful especially that you're alive everyday because that only means you still have the opportunity to correct things, to do better and to achieve your dreams so always be thankful.

These has been my realization after all the challenges I'm into in past couple of years, I know a lot more will come but I'm sure I am more than ready to face those challenges.

To all the beginners here, always do your best and do the right things, keep your feet on the ground because good things will come to you in the right time!  :)

Hardships and failures are preparing you for a brighter and greater things, keep moving!

In the crypto space, it is not all about to keep trying your luck and never give up. I bet you, you can keep trying and never get lucky. This space is all about skills and experience and then a little bit of luck.
If you don't have the right skills, you may not succeed at all.

It is better to give up sometimes, learn very well, then return and be successful.

When it comes to failures related to the forum specifically, I agree. This is a forum, and human communication is important here. In my history of being on the forum, there were failures when there was a desire to quit everything. But only thanks to some people on the forum who constantly supported me, did I realize the beauty of this place. I am immensely grateful for this.
A note of yours is also essential: once you've received an error, you need to understand what to do so that it won't happen again. This applies to all life in general. Falling, we must be able to rise and become stronger.

Great post, congratulations!

But there's a thing I disagree with you about: having a mentor will teach you to repeat your mentor's mistakes. Learn, and do your own research.

But, most importantly, there are 2 things I'd like to add:

1. "Never invest what you can't lose". This may sound obvious, but lots of people hit the dirt on it.

2. Above all, be patient! A couple of days ago, I made a big mistake: I had 10 bucks (the minimum amount you can trade on Binance), and was itching to start doing something, so I went ahead and traded my BTC for XRP. Really, when I was waiting for the transaction to be confirmed, XRP price started falling. The last 3 days have been hell, as it kept on falling, until now it started going up. I'm far from earning any money yet, but at least I got my 10 bucks back, so now I can go back to BTC, or change to another coin. Won't do it though, I'll wait till Monday. 8)

First time after a long while I'm seeing you write something encouraging, I'll merit you if I had some more..kudos ;D
Well, it's imperative to have these pre-observations prior starting anything but since most of us are always in a hurry or greedy not to learn first, we always fall into the traps of mishappenings like this which will inquire us to sit back and learn what we were running from ;D you see the point now?!
This is cool, why because very many newbies are gonna learn alot; "those ones that don't wanna fall a victim" . Aside from others, it also happened to me when I got registered to the forum:. I was tired of everything until I saw a part of a post that read thus; "sometimes you might get tired on the way, don't give up and remember the reason why you started" that kept me running until now .

That boosted you to keep trying and make yourself getting prepared for the incoming. We don't let these mistakes for us to think I quit, I'm a failure but rather make this a reason to work hard and as there is no sweet success if there are no failures and hardships. Responding to them in a positive way like smiling, keeping calm, and pretending to be okay is a way to easily find the best solution, and be thankful as well to the positive people who help us to understand and help us to stand despite these failures.

I just distract myself by playing video games  :P

Good compilation of notes which may help or motivates someone who is going through this situation. Apart from this I would like to add few

1. Learn what your need and how much risk you can take to reach the goals : because anyone can set their goals higher which isn't wrong but it is really possible for them to reach in certain time period is also important which depends on our current financial status so make short term and long term goals to reach.

2. Don't get manipulated : Most of the newbies commit this mistake they follow someone who is already rich and just do what they ask them to do but in reality it is going to benefit the manipulator not the users.

For forum related. There is no shame on admitting that you dis have mistakes or error. Everyone isnt perfect, and no one knows everything. If they mentioned or said something someone else thought wrong and in the end the guy proven wrong then thats perfectly fine. Admitying mistake isnt the end of the world.

Ive did so many past mistakes and every now and then I remembered it and change those that I did wrong.

Scripture, very good advice.
I think I read a story somewhere about the famous American inventor Edison.
He tried a hundred times to invent something and failed but he didn’t give up and in the end he succeeded.
Before crypto I also invested a lot of times in various projects and tried to make money on the Internet but without success.
The most important thing is to really learn from your mistakes, not give up and move on.

There is no definitive way to handle failures, and there is actually no definitive way to categorize what a failure is, as that is differently defined from person to person. The common denominator to all people is that failures are a part of life, that they happen more often than success, and that they should be considered as a learning tool. Only through trial and error has the human species been able to evolve (and every other species on earth) Your advice is solid and everyone should have that in mind.

Life is full of chances and opportunities that you either take or let pass you by. You have to take the chances in life or you will not grow. Every chance or opportunity is an opportunity to learn and have the experience of doing something right or wrong. I used to make a lot of mistakes when I was younger. Because of my mistakes, I have learnt not to make them in the future. So I strongly recommend that you face your fears and take the chances of doing something you love or that you have been wanting to do. So keep trying, just have that little bit more courage, stick to your dream and never give up.

I guess this is not about giving up, maybe its about having some good rest after the failure, and that means fixing yourself and trying again.

That's good to know that you really know how to handle stress, keep it up buddy.


Just like the stories of the most richest man in the world, they all have the same story of success, they came from nothing and now they have everything.

Having a mentor is not bad per se, but I usually advise newbies not to have one during their beginning stage cause they will prolly not know how to handle things effectively, mind you that the network is decentralized, with privacy and anonymity being one very essential feature of the network, newbies are known to be naive about quite a lot things, from their security, to choosing coins to invest in, some newbies thus go on to leave all that in the hands of a 'mentor or expert' who in the long run either deceives such newbie for his own personal gain, or just outrightly perpetrates a scam.

Having said that, even if newbies are going to keep mentors, then they must understand the security protocols in the network, they should know that they can only seek advice from such person, and must carry out their own research, they also have to know that their seed phrase, private keys and other personal data should be private, even from such mentor. I usually prefer the sort of 'mentorship' one can get on Bitcointalk, it's not personal and you can learn a lot even with chatting with a user you admire, just learning through their posts and responses/replies to your questions and posts, and you'll acquire a whole lot.

There are two (2) approaches to failure: either you quit or you continue and learn from your mistake.

While this is easier said than done, most people have chosen to quit especially if they are unexperienced in this kind of field. Unfortunately, quitting is somehow the easier option based on them. But if you truly understand the kind of investment you entered into, no matter how many times you fail, you will strive to at least recover your losses. This is a normal occurrence in the cryptocurrency sphere especially that we deal with volatile investments.

after the video game ends, it will be reminded of the failure that has occurred before. :P
Sometimes I do that too, by playing games and also thinking about how to overcome these failures so they don't happen again. There must be a better development. rather than just playing the game without getting a problem solved.
Invest what you can afford and learn the knowledge that is really needed and do management well.

How long does the distraction last??
It's temporary if I must say, and after that you still fall into deep thought or even depression, I'll rather suggest you device a more permanent means to get back on your feet after encountering a lose, it's not easy but it's possible.

Regardless of what else you wrote in this post if you can master then principle then nothing can beat you in crypto trading rather in any format of life. Life is continuous learning process and learning comes from mistakes we made in life.
Its very well said that, "To make a mistake is not a mistake but to repeat a mistake is a mistake".

The only way forward is learning from your mistakes, the road to success is always bumpy and never smooth, I'm not surprised when ever failure occurs it's always part of the process I always say to myself, just make sure you learn from it that's the most important part.

When you're the shy type, you barely going to get a mentor.

But in this digital age, what's good in a forum like this, everyone is going to be your mentor. And that's the beauty of this community. Well, if you have someone as your mentor, they really are going to work if you're still unfamiliar with the market.

They'll guide to have you invest into the good coins and if they're telling you something that you're not comfortable to invest with, you should always be curious as to why it has been suggested to you by mentor and try to question him why it's being suggested.

I quite disagree with this statement the bolded part above.
Newbies or even a high rank are equal and no need to keep your feet on the ground if you're a newbie, as long as you followed the rules you can interact with any discussion you want as long as it is relevant to the topic.  We're here in equal treatment.  I remember before calling the word "Sir" was forbidden because we're all here the same member and rank don't matter, just respect to each other.

All input was good advice, thanks for inspiring newbies and I like being open-minded newbies.

Good advice, the crypto market can't go our way, there are times when it goes up and down and that's what makes a lot of people fail. If we have decided to enter the crypto world, the risks involved must be accepted whether it is failure or loss. What is certain is that everything we do must be done properly to avoid losses because the profit or loss that will be obtained depends on how we manage the assets that we have in trading or investing. Don't be in a hurry and want a quick profit, everything needs a process and also mature skills so it does take time.

You are right that's why I only sleep and play video games, no time for regrets  :P

Great post OP, but don't an advice is that as much as you keep up with trends, you shouldn't always be in a hurry to invest in them to avoid more costly mistakes, some trends turn out to just be hypes.


Don't always look towards learning from your own mistakes as well, the mistakes may be too costly, you may not survive. I'd rather say instead of looking to learn from your own mistakes, you should look to learn from the mistakes and experience of others, so you don't make same mistakes at all.

The third point you mentioned about setting up the goal should be set up the goal, work real hard in silence and let the success make the noise. The point mentioned is very valid but striving and working hard and being consistent for the goal is what is needed the most.
People set up goals and make their mind. But sometime a good idea is not executed because they listen to their friends and people around who put them down rather than helping.  Sotochi is real example who is anonymous to people but the vision will stay forever.

You should have added something very technical but important:
Learn to work SMART not HARD.
We all understand that hard work pays but that's if you choose to toil hard; are the not people that are doing less jobs and getting more pay? This is all about your IQ I mean to say', you don't need to kill yourself with going around to extract content from what people write about; you can always develop yours just byost of your misconceptions or fore-knowledge, you get my point? I'm saying this cus someone was asking me privately...Please mate, what should I post on the forum? I have made 2 post and I dunno what else to write about... Then I came back to myself and I recalled that no one helped me to post anything; I only troll the whole forum, looking for what's campartible with my brain and I wrote the little I knew..Please, let's not look at these whole scenerio like a storm in the day time... If I sailed through that stage, then you can.

LOL, there's really nothing to regret, self-correction is better than having to regret failure.
BTC >Games >Sleep >repeat

Also learning from the mistakes of others is also a way how to handle failure no matter the level one maybe,  no one is expected to be perfect In everything. Learning from the mistakes of others in the forum and in the cryptocurrency world should been taking as a serious lesson that can help to avoid so many ugly situations. I think learning from the mistakes of others makes the journey to be easier , it is a way opener.

Failure is part of human success, so, failure doesn't mean have ended everything in your life. It is for another starting point in life. Nobody is an high land. Everyone has fallen from one thing to another.

I send you a cyber hug. Take it easy. It hasn't been easy on any front, to tell you the truth. I think the issue will be that you're either investing in alts and they're turning shitcoins or you're buying Bitcoin at the top. However, don't panic if you're into Bitcoin and your portfolio is down now. At the present level, it's resting on support and I hope it doesn't break it. Hopefully, it reverts from here and goes up. You may want to buy more at this level to average out. It's sitting at $40,400 ATM.

How will having a mentor make someone to repeat a mentor's mistake? Isn't the mentor going to let them know how to avoid such mistakes that they (mentor) have already made?

As comes of the crypto market, one of the struggles of the newbie or newcomers it what they should do where do they start. At that point you need someone to help you as an introduction, I experience that but the bitcoin talk serves as a guide to the things I need to know what is the possible risk and what is thing need to avoid after that i found up my self makes an improvement and share those things to other people too so they will know how to make it where I'm currently now. Failure and loss if assets is part of the market so if you think there a mistake why make it happen to learn from it knowledge is the most essential part to make a progress.

There's always a chance to bounce back, but it will always depend on how you handle your emotion so better to stay positive and think for a better way to learn from your mistakes.

I honestly used to this kind of scenario before, but I can't stop myself from thinking about the mistakes even if I try to make myself busy, so I guess the best way to handle those failure and mistakes is to accept it, and continue to move forward instead of escaping it, well it worked for me I don't know if it can work to other as well.

Never be in a hurry to make decisions, relax, take your time and go through what ever you want to do

Never allow your mistakes to weigh you down instead take it as your step to success.

Always learn from your mistakes because experience is the best teacher.

When i was new to this forum then never have thought that would spend so much time here and have setup the account on one my friends suggestions to learn about bitcoin basics but slowly when i spent time over here then i realised this is the most knowledgeable and useful forum where we can enter as a newbie but if we are dedicated we can learn so much.The thing is we all make mistakes and same happened with me that i sometimes post that was not correct or understand them in different way but the guidance of high rank and experienced members was there who tells what is right.

The best to survive and grow on forum is your dedication and passion to learn about various things on which we should focus which will eventually be highlighted in our post quality because when we have knowledge about something we can explain it a better way.

Learning from your mistakes and how to tackle various problems is the key to become experienced memeber like what will happen if you quit? You will gain nothing but if you remain constant you will surely gain enough knowledge to help others also.

So nice topic to bring up  :D

You have been also the same member who helps lot of members to correct their mistakes as newbie or high rank members so that they don't repeat it again and survive on the forum.So thanks for it and you are well recognised member of forum and good to hear that you made the best decision not to leave the forum early.