You can't survive in a bear market, you can only understand if you survived or not after bear market ends, this market is uncertain so any action is risk.
Exactly! What makes you survive a bear market in the first place knows what to do and if you do not know what to do before the bear market even starts, you are just going to end up caught in the middle.
I have seen how some people emphasize so much on patience, but I believe that is just a term used so as to make them just stick with the idea that they have made the wrong choice right from the onset and they are just looking at how they will be able to switch to the long term and look forward to the value going back to where they started from.