The most expensive mistakes I’ve made weren’t bad trades, they were moments where I abandoned my own rules because I felt something.

Whether it was revenge trading, over-sizing into positions, holding losers because 'surely they come back it’ll come back or letting ego get the better of my planning.

I’ve lost money fast enough to make your stomach drop, I’ve sat in positions I knew were wrong and froze anyway. I’ve trusted people I shouldn’t have because I wanted things to be easy.

None of that taught me how to win, but it taught me how to survive. Now I assume I’m fallible in every single trade, I assume I am likely going to be wrong, I assume discipline matters more than intelligence.

That mindset didn’t make me fearless, but it help med unlock consistency in a volatile industry like Crypto. And the wild thing about consistency is that it quietly beats talent over long enough timelines.