Exactly. While patience is certanily a factor, once you invest in crypto you should improve your competence at least to make that patience less stressful and be more confident with your decisions
That will only be sufficed if you learn new things and continue to figure out how the market is behaving. Learn deeper in trading in such a way that we should not just rely on graphs but trying to see the future of a cryptocurrency by reading news and updates about it.
Most of the time, the success in trading will come from large groups or signals, they are the one who are pushing the market price of a crypto to a short term bull, but take note that these signals will not come if there's no hype or news about the particular crypto.