The whole crypto market is highly speculative and most of the ICOs may already be overvalued. Most of them will fail eventually, and this is exacerbated by the adverse selection due to lack of regulation. So patience might not be the best virtue in this market. Further, you have shiny new projects coming out every week, which challenges future profit prospects of existing projects.

I am not saying that patient is not important. It only works if it is with low risk that the long run trend is upward. This is not true for the crypto world since the outlook is uncertain by nature. The uncertainty is fundamental in that you cannot evaluate the risk like you do for the stock market.