From my own perspective, you will learn in every stage of trading and you should go after gathering proper trading knowledge how to survive in the market. It will help you for being more patience and will keep you optimistic that you will be succeeded in trading.
I would say don't look to survive in the market because when you have the mentality to survive your trading decisions will be defensive and more towards avoiding loss rather than being pro-active and taking minimal risks and looking to end trades in profits.
As a defensive trader you would be happy selling your BTC at 10k which he bought lets say at 9k but a more pro-active trader would wait a few extra months and rather sell it for 20k or even more. Sometimes I understand we have to avoid taking risks but this crypto space is all about being ballsy and taking risks.
If you have enough balance and you can afford it while your strategy fall, then you may go for trading. Don't put all in one, spread your budget to some coins or tokens then you may able to make it proper distribution that will help you to involve more in trading.
Again, on the contrary I would suggest going more towards a single asset and that too Bitcoin because all the other coins are not worth investing when the bitcoin market is going bullish.