When it comes to investing, the most core principle is actually one word—patience.

Many people think they are impressive because they made a beautiful bottom pick once, but the real factor that determines whether you can make money is never how sharp your vision is at that moment, but whether you can hold on tightly after buying. Whether it's holding ASTER or ETH, what ultimately widens the gap between people is definitely not the judgment ability at the entry point.

It's whether you have the ability to endure through an entire market cycle.

Investing may seem easy to understand on the surface, but from deciding to enter the market, holding throughout, until the final outcome, every step is a battle against your own human nature. How short-term prices will move, how long to wait—honestly, no one truly knows. Except for those hindsight commentators in the crypto circle.

The only thing you can do is: think through the logic thoroughly, and leave everything else to the market to decide.