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
Imagine buying Ripple at $3 and someone says to buy and hodl. Patience worked until now only for bitcoin and ethereum. All the rest are too far from ATH and we can expect they will dissappear completely when the bear market starts.