It is likely that a HODLer has a certain kind of a mindset, or perhaps a certain kind of a practice that helps to get him into a HODLing mindset.

I am pretty sure that my ideas about how to get into bitcoin, and how to set time targets have evolved, yet I was never really locking myself into having to get certain kinds of profits by certain dates.  I was just hoping that over several years, perhaps 10 or more, that my bitcoin holdings might get built up to be equivalent to some of my then 401k holdings and also I was considering that I wanted to get a 6% CAGR out of my bitcoin, yet I was not going to necessarily get out of bitcoin merely based on it underperforming in regards to my expected CAGR..

But, yeah, if any of us might come into an investment, such as bitcoin, and we might invest aggressively, yet we invest within our discretionary income in such a way that were are thinking that we are investing no more than we can afford to lose, then the mere fact that our bitcoin might go up in value should not necessarily contribute to our wanting to cash out and to take profits, even if the bitcoin might have doubled in value.

So, it becomes difficult for me to understand guys who get so eager to be ongoingly taking profits and then also with a second purpose of wanting to buy more bitcoin.. when frequently to me there seems to be contradictions if guys have goals to accumulate more bitcoin, yet they employ selling as their way to attempt to accomplish greater bitcoin accumulation... and yeah, maybe I am suffering from some deficiencies to not be able to understand the practicality of selling bitcoin in order to try to accumulate more bitcoin rather than focusing on ongoingly buying bitcoin until reaching a status of overaccumulation.