Long term investment won’t teach you any patience if you don’t already have patience and discipline in your life as a quality, prior to the time of investing in bitcoin. Not everybody has patience as a quality in life, you will be whom you are after investing in bitcoin. Investing in bitcoin won’t just transform an impatience man to a patient man. That is why some people will tell you that they can’t hold their bitcoin for long, not that they don’t like the idea of holding their bitcoin for a long period, but they lack patience and discipline in their life. Investing in bitcoin won’t change that overnight. At first they can try to hold for few weeks or months, but on the long run their inherent quality will always have the best of them. So it is better for intending investors to know their strength and weaknesses before deciding to invest in bitcoin.
Well, I might as well not agree with your point. I feel patience and discipline are not necessarily fixed qualities that someone must already have before investing in bitcoin. Because those qualities can actually be developed through experience and repeated practice.
Someone that start his investment with small amounts with a long term plan can gradually become more comfortable with volatility and eventually learn to react with every short term price movement.
I also don’t think we can say that a person existing behaviour will always have the best of them. People naturally change their financial habits when they are exposed to real consequences and learn from experience. Bitcoin may not automatically make an impatient person patient, but having a long term investment and deliberately sticking to a plan can become part of developing patient and discipline over time.
The important thing is to invest is to invest an amount one can reasonably afford and have a clear plan rather than assuming their habits can never change.