I'm the only one. Some of them are smarter than me in other ways and wealthier too. I don't get it. Accountants, PhD types conspiracy theorists that don't like gov, you name it. None. I've had success with a few outside my fam tho.
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You also have courage. They don’t. 
To be frank the thing that drove me to all this was panic and fear for my specific situation in COVID, which they would not have had. I am a single income household on a modest salary considering I have a family of 7. Canada was making new rules all the time and if I lost my job, I would have only got 1 benefit payout to support 7 people, which would have been completely unsustainable. That pushed me over.
That said I would like to think that I would have listened if someone had truly tried to tell me about Bitcoin, but it's hard to know if I would have. Once I dug it took 2-3 years to know about markets and Bitcoin which was part of the process of necessarily understanding "money"
For maximum gains, I would still trade a bit at the most obvious times. The thing that then made me go 100% all in was conviction and morality/ethics, which required more of a departure from greed more so than courage.
Courage is somewhat of an abstract concept, but if courage has a lot more to to with stern alignment of your actions based on priorities and conviction, in that sense, i suppose I do I have courage.
Thanks for sharing.
You do have it, the courage to go it alone, to believe in yourself versus relying upon an authority. Courage doesn’t mean the absence of fear, only a madman has no fear, but to push through fears of failure, alienation, punishment, etc. 
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Not too dissimilar to V, it is through the crucible of understanding that society is not, or is no longer, on my side that caused a specific change in my character. It is difficult to do so while maintaining existing relationships, especially when your own family does not change to nearly the extent or at least at the pace as you yourself change. We all have our cross to bare, but in the medium to long term I pray that the volatility in my life and indeed Bitcoin too will decrease as I journey on this new path of sovereignty.
