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Sometimes it can take a bit of time to put good systems and practices in place, and in the very beginning a guy might not even realize what is the difference between trading and investing, and even if he hears that others believe that bitcoin is a 4-10 year or longer investment, the idea might not sink in with him personally, so he might not actually understand it, even though he still might start out by investing into bitcoin with a shorter than 4 year timeline... but then as he learns more about bitcoin, he may well come to understand and accept that bitcoin investing is 4 years minimum for any of his new investments into it... and not a shorter timeline, so his ideas may well change as he better gets to know bitcoin and some of the ways that bitcoin is a relatively unique asset.
Yu kw it’s funny, in the beginning, you can hear people say Bitcoin is a long term thing and still not fully feel it. Even me my self, when I was first introduced Bitcoin, I thought would double my investment in max of like 3 months or something, 
But like you said, it is over time that it starts to make sense. As you read more, watch the market, and even go through this forum daily, cus I won’t like this forum has helped me a lot to adapt more to that long term mindset, that 4 to like 20 years mindset starts to feel more realistic... The understanding would basically grow with time and little experience, not just from hearing people say it.Historically guys have been rewarded for their aggressiveness in bitcoin and mostly holding their BTC as long as they did not end up losing their BTC or trying to trade or engage in margin and/or overly leveraging of their coins. History does not guarantee future performance. .even though it can help us to better understand an asset like bitcoin.
Yeah true, and it’s kinda clear now that those who held strong back then really got the reward. They didn’t overcomplicate things with leverage or trading every move, just held and waited it out… and it paid off.Yes expecialy the newbies who might have spent less than 1 to 4 months here. We have also been on that situation and needed a lot of conviction for it to sink into our head but as time goes it becomes part of us. And I believe why people finds it hard to understand the concept of 4-10 years or more, is because they are often stocked to the orientation of other people about Bitcoin investment and trading outside forum. A person who understands Bitcoin outside forum will usually have a different view about Bitcoin investment and trading but with the help of collective ideas from different people expecialy from thread like this will shape a person into another dimension of knowledge except such person is bent on following his own ideas. And I bet such person will never learn.
Exactly man, especially for people who just joined recently, they are still processing a lot of info. Like you said, many of us were in that same confused state before the conviction started building up…. And outside the forum, the noise is crazy, some people think Bitcoin is just one big trading opportunity or Ponzi lol. But when you hang around threads like this and get exposed to different views from people who have actually been through it, your mindset starts to shift slowly. It’s true that being around the right community help a lot…