I spent five years watching traders get destroyed in 2014, 2018, and 2022 before I finally accepted this: the market does not care about your timeline. I watched a man buy Bitcoin at $19,000 in 2017, panic-sell at $3,600 in 2018, then watch it hit $69,000 without him. The lesson that took me years to internalize was not that crashes happen—it was that my emotional response to them was the real enemy, not the price itself.