Bear market allows you not only to see where your investments are going but also lets you easily unwind them by selling poorly performing coins (if we talk about cryptos) and then proceed to buy more resilient coins at half the price as the market goes downhill. That's what most people overlook in bear markets and so fail to take advantage of.
If you go for checking out many boards across this forum, you can find most of people are suggesting about buying at dips but I'm not sure how many people are making use of those suggestions. I did few in last 4 months and now waiting for another dip to enter again. I'm not selling out any of garbage as I am still believing in to them to bounce back at any time. Also I have bought few major altcoins. Usually I am not believing in to most of altcoins but this time I am finding this is an easy way to have more bitcoins for the same money, just as a part of making use of low tide.
In a nutshell, it is a perfect time to change sails or even the ship itself, tide or no tide
I guess there will be no need to change the direction of sailing nor the ship as I am still believing in to bitcoins moreover I am still in profit with my bitcoin stash (bought them by early 2015). Usually people do think about those "options of changes" only when they are frustrated due to losses.