Lately, I've been a bit obsessed with earning testnet points. It was supposed to be just practice, but as I kept going, I started thinking, "If I hit a big win here, I could break even..." Honestly, once practice turns into expectations, people automatically start overacting. In the past, I just toughened it out: waiting for faucets, rushing to interact, queuing overnight. The more exhausted I was, the less willing I was to stop. In the end, I realized the most expensive thing isn't gas; it's time and emotional energy.

Now I've set a very simple stop-loss for myself: at most one hour per day or two chains. If I go over, I close the page. For each project, I just aim to get the process running and save screenshots—no need to grind out all the tasks. If for three consecutive days the community is just full of arguments and rule changes, I consider it done with practice and stop loving it. On the macro side, people are still arguing about rate cut expectations, the dollar index, and whether risk assets rise and fall together... Anyway, when the big environment twists, small expectations like points are the first to break. Better to protect myself first.