I hope someone learn one or two from my journey, if you can't afford Bitcoin, find a source of income first, enough to feed your needs and enough for savings or else you will go back to the last savior you have ( Your Bitcoin wallet) and spend it all to survive.
That's nice of you to write down your story here on the forum. It's always nice to read other people's story with cryptos, even if they made mistakes. The funny thing is that 2016 was also the year when I got bitcoins, but unlike you I didn't buy any books. I only used online articles and the forum here to learn about bitcoin's. Now with hindsight I wish I would have invested more time into my crypto education. My biggest mistake was in 2016/7 to sell all my coins again and not stick around for the long run. Looking at bitcoin as a great tool to save money longterm is the best approach.
I don't know how I missed this topic but it was really educative knowing how others made mistake during their early bitcoin journey. Mistake is actually the best teacher but ignorance sometimes do drag us back, I was so eager and have always wished to be there when it all started and have said to myself in different imagination about the amount of BTC I would have stacked up if I only new about bitcoin much but after reading this thread some question just kept ringing in my head and it was how do I know if I wouldn't have made similar mistakes or even more grevious mistake like this. Well I just I hope I won't have a situation that will lead me to sell almost all my coins in my portfolio especially now that we are heading towards a possible halving that can boost the market to a new price ATH.