In addition to the reams of material that one ultimately ends up reading and listening to as a result of studying Bitcoin and finance, the biggest positive impact is that “the Bitcoin way” lowers your time preference across the board…You begin delaying gratification and investing in other areas of your life, for larger gains later, as well. Your diet. Your health. Your relationships. It helps you to adopt the mindset of the fisherman who decides to build a gill net and a boat on the shore for a week, rather than continuing to race out into the surf for fruitless days on end with a spear.