Yes, a person's investment journey is not always smooth, full of challenges, obstacles and risks in it. Their experience will make them continue to develop themselves to be better than before, thanks to patience, understanding and adapting from before is the main key to achieving success in the investment world. The most important thing in this case is to continue to learn from past mistakes, by evaluating each of your past mistakes you are likely to succeed in the future.
Life on its own its not smooth but how you ready you will determine how far you will go because when things don't go smoothly are you going to give up or you will try harder, sometimes the challenges you face after investing and how patient you are will be the one to determine if you will be able to continue or not.
There are people that the moment they experience any small challenge they will start feeling insecure and eventually might quite investing. And the obstacles are suppose to be seen as references for you to be able for you to move on that is why you choose what ever you are going through gently and the same time you have to train your mind to be able to move forward even when you fail because there is a very high possibility that it will definitely face so we all just have to learn to accept failures. This why a mind preparation matters a lot and you don't have to over do things and always go for consultation so that you don't have to worry to much.