Think about those wealthy Bitcoin enthusiasts you know. Check out their journeys:
Back in 2010, they downloaded a wallet without anyone telling them to. They mined coins on a laptop while their friends were busy playing Counter-Strike 2.
Fast forward to 2013, when Bitcoin hit $100, and they were labeled as gamblers.
In 2017, after the price plummeted from $20k to $3k, they got called fools.
Then in 2021, when it dropped from $69k to $16k, they were seen as cult followers.
Every Bitcoiner you admire is just someone who TRIED when it seemed pointless.
They had no clear path laid out.
They took a shot with just a 1% chance.
That’s what sets them apart from you.
When the wallet was up for grabs, you were arguing about how it was a scam on some forum.
When the price hit $300, you were waiting for "the dip."
When the dip finally showed up, you held out for "confirmation."
The Bitcoiner isn’t smarter than you. They weren’t just lucky either.
They simply clicked download while you hesitated.
That’s the main takeaway.
Stop focusing on winning.
Forget about losing.
Learn to love the act of TRYING.
If you’re constantly trying, you’re bound to face losses.
But you’re also going to have wins.
Trying every single day might mean losing some, but it also guarantees victories.
Now, losing might be a bummer for the average Joe or the worker.
But it doesn’t break the spirit of someone who enjoys trying.
They’re not in it for just winning or losing. They’re here to TRY.
So, embrace TRYING.
Give that business idea a shot.
Send that cold email.
Make a move on that girl.
Work on getting fit at the gym.
Once you start living as a person who tries, the world will look completely different.
Obviously he didn't have a road mad. He was skeptical, he was fearful, the world, friends and governments were against him.
He could sleep with the hope of profits, but the market will journey to the bear land.
When the dip came, he was waiting for it to go to zero and then, zero never came and will never come.
At $77k it still feels like he missed the opportunity. But at $500k, he will realize that today is the opportunity.
There were a lot of risk, challenge, and tests for early Bitcoin adopters. Things were not easy with them but people when looking at success of the other people, they feel things are very easy for early adopters, and it's just wrong.
Bitcoin does not have roadmap but it has succeeded while shitcoins have roadmaps and they failed, died, scammed.
People can learn from Satoshi and success of early adopters, and change their mindset, then kick of their journeys with Bitcoin.
Satoshi's lesson.
It's big difference between people who are ready to learn, ready to take risk, and actually take action as insiders compares to people who are lazy to learn, don't want to take risk, hesitate to take action for their starts.
Well nice article though if I had the liberty of coming up with a name for it I'll probably replace TRYING with TAKING RISK. People are generally scared of uncertainty in most cases and crypto is just one of them. Losing money is kinda hard to comprehend especially for people with no investor mindset.
In most cases realising a missed opportunity can be more painful than a failed opportunity. That's one of the major reasons why you just try to manage how you risk it's what will tell how long your mindset will last.
No one makes it in life sitting down without taking any move. This also applies to Bitcoin those first adopters of Bitcoin saw a reason why they should try and that was how they are leading in terms of the amount of Bitcoin owned. It's better trying than never so keep trying no matter how disadvantaged you are always see a reason why you should try and never give because those who give up in life history never remembers them.
In a brief moment after reading through your thread, I wonder is it that whenever someone gets into something new, there are always folks who will criticise you? Because Bitcoin's history wasn't an easy one, and those early adopters were the ones who actually brought out the potential of Bitcoin that many folks didn't see. At times risk is required to be executed before gains and those massive crashes of Bitcoin were certain risks, but also opportunities that helped many realise that no matter how Bitcoin falls it will always rise back up. This alone counts as how much potential the technology has right from the start, but many didn't understand it so instead they criticise it....
That said early adopters faced a lot of pressure and while many lost their seed phrase to their wallet, some gave up and few stayed. I believe it was all about survival skills during those years and ever since those times in the history of Bitcoin helped us realise something, which is there is more to your actions than your words that's all.........
There's this favorite quote of mine that a ship is safe in the harbor but that is not where it is meant to be, It always motivates me and gets me thinking that it is important to take risk in life especially with trying new opportunities and ideas because a moving man will meet his luck. Many people who did not want to lose money in trying to invest in something new like Bitcoin early enough when they had the information about it are still in regret today because they now see it as even though they can invest now they had a better chance of investing before but because they were playing it safe they have not been able to actually benefit properly from Bitcoin like the early investors.
In life, if you don't keep on trying, you will always keep on losing, but once you start trying, you will still lose, but at least the chance to win is already there. The key here is not to settle for every loss, yes its hard and risky, but if you really aim for success, trying is the best solution, you don't know that you're capable to succeed unless you try.
Same with bitcoin, there's no beginner's luck or shortcut to success. Losses are already built-in, but if you keep on trying, you will discover that there's always way to succeed and win, you just have to right for the timing, never give up, and always never settle for a loss, but always keep on trying no matter how impossible it is to win. Because a person who never stops trying, will always find its way towards success and recognition, than those who never cares doing it.
Failure is the one who tries and quits what they are doing because it turns sour.
In this life we live, we will try on different things, many at which we will fail on, our hopes are shattered on, but we choose to stay calm, to trust the process without thinking of going back because that doesn't make a meaning, to start building something for long, only to give up on the way
If OP didn't convince you then try this, ""Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.".
And myself not a tryer or risk taker but I waited enough for the bitcoin to convince me that I need to jump that costed me millions, probably, but better late than never, and I am not regretting the missed opportunities but being grateful for the moment that I finally said okay, I need to do it.
So, if anyone hesitates to jump, then it is your time.
This really makes sense. Trying unlocks our hidden potentials, builds our self-confidence, and breaks stagnation the moment we are exposed to unforeseen career or life's opportunities.
If we never stop trying, chances for failure remains low because we don't let ourselves settled on it, but instead we find ways on how to achieve our wants and goals, and as long as chances and opportunities are still firm, no one should stop from trying the whole time.
It's tiring and hopeless sometimes, but because you're in to hit your goal, so you should never stop trying and trying until you reach your goal of success.
That is a really motivating speech you have given and it is actually true because we can only achieve something if we are willing to try. If we become like those people who always complain and constantly want assurance from others, wanting someone to tell them that everything will happen for sure, then we will never move forward. They do not even want to hear a slight uncertainty or doubt in your words. They want full assurance, even if the person is selling them a lie. And most of the time when someone says something will happen 100 percent for sure and promises easy 10x gains, those are usually scammers. Even Satoshi Nakamoto once said, "If you dont believe me or dont get it, I dont have time to try to convince you, sorry."
That is why we should try, but at the same time we should not blindly try every single thing. Exploring opportunities is good to some extent, but eventually we also need focus, discipline, and dedication toward a specific direction if we truly want meaningful results.
Life is a game of uncertainty, without fixed rules or predetermined outcomes. I guess that's how the narrative of trying exists because everyone is entitled to make an effort, create a difference, and navigate life without quitting or giving up. Otherwise, if you lose and stop trying, its as good to say that you're okay with that, because you don't believe that with frequent trying, it will make a difference.
With bitcoin, its high volatility and market uncertainty push us to keep on trying and never stop making calculated risk. While its never enough reason for those who are not true believers of bitcoin, but for us who have stayed here for almost a decade, constant trying often gives us hope that everything is possible with bitcoin.
I guess that many of us have been called as this during those times. Didn't sold, just held for a long time and by the next years and cycles, we have planned our sale. Although that's not bad at all as long as you're trying to recover those sold BTCs during those ATHs. The point is very nice that all of us should keep on trying. People think these days that accumulating Bitcoin is hard, while someone keeps talking of the difficulty. Someone out there is trying already to accumulate without any complain but just pure actions with the plans of reaching an specific amount to hold for their future.
Successfully people always have what it takes to get things done. Always proactive. That's what I love about them. And I am proud to say I am on the verge of becoming one myself.
Fear of failure is one reason people chicken out of things. Leaving it just like that and someone with more courage than you take that bold step and do that thing you didn't have the courage to do.
Trying continuously in the midst of failures put you in the right part to make it. You can fail 100 times and all it takes is one good win to clear it all.
Another thing that is even worst than failure is hesitation. Early Bitcoiners were disrespected. All they hard was the stomach to swallow insult and persist in the midst of failures.
Society itself discourages risk taking because they will insult you and call you all sort of names. They think risk taking is a foolish thing to do. But it is not.
There's definitely no shortcuts to success. If you don't give it a single try, or even multiple times of trying, you will never see your goal turns into reality, and you will never taste the true essence of being successful and profitable.
The same goes for bitcoin. There was no single person who just invest or trade once and boom, goes highly profitable with bitcoin. It takes more courage, time, determination and resilience, and countless times of trying before a person realizes his goal, before he gets to succeed with bitcoin.
Yes, fall in love with trying, because a person who never dares to make it another try will find it hard to succeed in life, to succeed with bitcoin.
If someone says "Bitcoin is a risky asset", then I say "Bitcoin is not risky in the long term", and "One will never lose as long as one doesn't sell too hasty".
Furthermore, I believe in the proverb or saying I often hear, namely; "If you don't know (recognize), you won't care, and if you don't care, you won't love".
So, I think this proverb is very closely related to one involvement in Bitcoin, which means, that one will never fall in love with Bitcoin until they "know", and "try" it by opening himself like an empty glass (philosophy; about open mind).
In 2010 who ever found about Bitcoin was the lucky one because in that year many people were playing online multiplayer games and they weren't even thinking about something like Bitcoin or about crypto market. PayPal was there but as a payment processor not as a market but the Bitcoin created a whole market that we call crypto market today. The smart ones who mined Bitcoin back in 2010 were really the ones who're enjoying the best rewards now. Only a few people who weren't that smart sold their Bitcoin when it touched $100 value.
According to Theodore Roosevelt,''It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.'' This only shows that with trying, everything is possible. You cannot guarantee that with one click, everything is set for good, but there's always some hidden circumstances that we can't beat without trying. Although trying does not mean sure success, but since our life is also a game of probability, then its much better to risk ourselves trying than to never risk at all.
There's no sure success with bitcoin as well. Everything seems gambling, but with constant trying and risk management, there is higher chances to succeed than to see us losing.
In general I agree with OP. I disagree also that trying always is equivalent to "take risk". The 2010 Bitcoiner had not necessarily to take a serious risk. He simply needed curiosity and a little bit of luck, and later, a bit of patience.
There is however a catch. Altcoin projects (and perhaps shady startups in general) try to lure you into your shady businesses with very similar catch phrases.
So my conclusion is: Yes, TRY. But also LISTEN and LEARN. Important: Ignore most social media, in particular everybody who's too one-sided on Bitcoin.