When I was still a newbie to crypto many people told me to keep holding and that's all I did for many years and in the end I ended up with many dead coins, whenever I keep seeing people talking about patience as if it's the only thing a newbie need I always shake my head, the fact is you need more than patience to get good results from projects, having patience sometimes will get you nothing
I have similar experience as i still have some tokens from last ico trend but mostly are either valueless or not listed so we can say they are dead coins. While hodling can be good strategy for top coins but it will definitely not work for every coin.