I find that I’m much more sensitive to unrealized losses than to unrealized gains. A little extra profit on paper can only make me feel good for a while; when I’m scrolling before bed and I come across it, I even think, “Don’t get carried away.” But the moment there’s an unrealized loss—no matter if it’s just numbers that haven’t been cashed in yet—my brain automatically starts filling in every worst-case branch, like some alarm in the system that keeps blaring. In plain terms, I’m more afraid of “losing” than of “gaining.”

Recently, everyone’s been talking about whether projects will migrate before and after the upgrade of that mainstream public chain. I get pulled along by this kind of uncertainty too: even when nothing has happened, my emotions rehearse a retreat route in advance. Later, I came up with a clumsy solution: treat my mindset like a software update. I don’t aim to fix everything in one go—just make small changes: watch the market less, write down in advance what I’ll do if it drops, and then carry it out according to plan. After the update, I might not necessarily feel happier, but at least it’s not so noisy anymore.