I’ve found that I’m especially sensitive to unrealized losses— even if it’s just a tiny bit in the red— and my brain automatically starts to magnify everything: Will it keep falling? Should I stop the loss? Did I pick the wrong pool… But when I’m sitting on unrealized profit, I become very “Buddhist.” Even if it goes up, I can still sleep fine. It’s pretty weird. To put it plainly, the money I’m losing feels like “it’s already gone,” while the money I’m earning feels like “it hasn’t landed in my hands yet,” and the emotional weight is completely different.

Lately, it’s even more obvious during the airdrop season. Once the points system rolled out, the task platform’s anti-sybil measures started to feel like attendance tracking, and the people who farm rewards were grinding the way it looks like they’re going to work. In the end, when I watch the combined time cost and on-chain risk stack up, I get more easily panicked.

My habit of staying calm is actually kind of old-fashioned: before bed, I don’t look at the overall holdings. I only check the “worst-case chart” that I drew myself— the maximum drawdown, the worst liquidation line, and whether I can hold through it. If I confirm I’m still within the boundaries, I just turn off my phone. As for the rest… I’ll leave it to tomorrow me. After all, anxiety in the middle of the night won’t make the price any better.