Recently, everyone’s been farming points on testnets, and the biggest fear isn’t being slow—it’s “practicing” until it turns into “I should be getting an airdrop.” Once that expectation takes hold, people start upping the stakes: more accounts, buying scripts, hopping back and forth across chains to farm… honestly, at this point it isn’t learning anymore—it’s gambling.

My stop-loss habit is pretty old-school: first, set a total budget and total time for this chain/this set of tasks (for example, just two nights, just this amount of gas). If you go over, stop. Then add another line in the sand: any move that asks you to bypass risk control, touch mixed coins or privacy coins, or do those “borderline” operations—just don’t. No matter how hot the trend is. Lately the community has been arguing about compliance boundaries so much, I don’t want to get myself dragged into a gray zone for some points.

In the long run, it really isn’t talent—it’s just habit: being able to stop, admit you’re wrong and take the loss, and treat “didn’t get it” as normal. That’s it for now.