I knew a guy who spent most of his life helping other people build their businesses. These people became extremely successful, owned multiple ventures, and he was convinced that…

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I knew a guy who spent most of his life helping other people build their businesses. These people became extremely successful, owned multiple ventures, and he was convinced that eventually they would …

I knew a guy who spent most of his life helping other people build their businesses. These people became extremely successful, owned multiple ventures, and he was convinced that eventually they would bring him in and take care of him. Except they never did. He spent some of his best years waiting to be lifted up instead of pursuing his own goals. I think a lot of people in crypto have made a version of that same mistake. They were sold the idea that simply being here meant they would eventually make it. Stick around long enough, own the right tokens, survive enough cycles, and your turn would come. Meanwhile, an entire industry of KOLs reinforced that belief, jamming tokens down people's throats and creating a false sense of urgency every time the market moved higher. Every rally was another opportunity you supposedly couldn't afford to miss. If you came to crypto from outside markets, a lot of this thinking was ridiculously childish. Participation isn't an edge. You need skill, good judgment, and some understanding of how unlikely extraordinary financial success actually is. I think what's happening now is that after each cycle inflated the balloon a little less, people are finally starting to realize that nobody is coming to bring them along. They're not just upset about losing money. They're confronting the possibility that they spent years waiting for something that was never going to happen. The people who made life-changing money were always the exceptions. Some were extraordinarily talented, some were lucky, and some were both. You find those people in every market. The difference with crypto was that social media put those exceptions right next to everyone else. You could talk to them, follow their trades, and watch them get rich in real time. And somewhere along the way, people confused being close to those outcomes with being likely to experience them themselves.

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