The problem is not identifying those projects, it is about having the patience to hold them for up to 5 years without feeling tempted to sell off at the very first ath that occur.
Many people sold off their bags of eth before it became a life changing investment. Same thing with btc, sol bnb and so on. So the question you should ask yourself is are you ready to hold come what may to achieve that goal without selling along the line. Near Protocol is one of such imo.
This is the key, if 10 years ago someone told you "bitcoin will go up a lot" and you believed them, you could have sold it at 1k, and you would have thought that was a lot, because it seriously was a lot. However then it would reach to 68k and shock you. Same logic goes here, even if you believe that some project may go up super high, how do you know if we are talking about just x2, or do we talk about x50?
There is no way of knowing how big it will go, and how long you should hold it. Maybe if you hold it for 1 year, you will make x2 or maybe it will also do x10 in 3 years, or maybe x50 in 5 years, who knows how long you should hold it?