RE: How NOT To Lose $2 Million In Crypto: A True Tale...
You don't know me , but I'm glad you wrote this and I hope you get back to posting. Always enjoyed your posts.
I hope the writing of it was cathartic for you. I have had many similar events in my life with money and investing, though not quite to scale (close though).
Maybe it’s about cultivating the maturity and wisdom to manage what little we have responsibily. To keep our feet on the ground, aware of the risks we might not comprehend when high on hopium, and plan better in advance.
Lord knows, having gone through all this, I’ll be at least a little bit smarter than when the next round of wealth flows in. And I wouldn’t expect it to be as huge as the first, which maybe is a good thing.
That.
Without my previous mistakes, I would have been retired and set for life probably a decade ago (Hell, I worked 100+ hours a week for years and made great money...yet I still can't retire). Without the mistakes I have made and continue to make, I don't think I would be ready for it anyway.
The more mistakes I make, the less their frequency becomes. The better I get.
Anyway. Keep on keeping on. You will do better on the next go around!
I appreciate you taking the time to share that now.
I honestly had no expectations when posting this, of rewards or feedback - though stuff like this is an encouragement for me to reconsider why it might be worthwhile to pick up and share a bit more every now and then. It's good to know there is at least one other person who's been reading and appreciating some of my stuff - and that alone is worth weighing in.
I guess that's the aim - and perhaps, marker of success.
Just hopefully you've been working in a field you've been enjoying! I suppose even if we had all the money at our fingertips, it'd be boring to sit around and do nothing all day - most of us would still want/need something worthwhile to invest our time & energy into. So even despite our mistakes that could've had us in early retirement, at least hopefully you've been finding satisfaction & success in what you've been doing instead... 🙏