There's a strong lesson here I don't know a single person around today that I believe to be a good trader than did not get shit on a few times during their come up Its not a badge of honor though, it's the scars from the painful periods 2016-2018, I entered the space and ran it up off just pure retail tism 2018-2020, Had some big wins with BTC & alts like chainlink. Then corona came and I went into my larger drawdown ever in March 2020 I had just quit my full time job one month prior So the timing was fucked Markets rebounded eventually and I traded back some of my losses but I was down bad. Not just drawdown but mentally lost. Wondering if I should quit this pursuit During the Summer time I decided to spent time with my family. My grandmother had recently passed & I felt I needed to spend extra time there During the Summer my boys were hitting me up constantly about the new hype "defi". I put a little thought into it but wasn't in the gambling headspace, so instead I just watched my boys print Summer was ending and defi hyped had died down. I was getting back into trading full time again and BTC was starting to get pretty bullish and for some reason I knew I wanted to bet on defi I called this play my "hero or zero" moment when speaking with my closer friends, few knew how much I needed to win big again BTC had finally broken 10k macro resistance and was retesting, it was time to buy I bought up more BTC & ETH, then I started on defi plays like Comp, Aave, SNX, Link, Sushi, UNU, YFI, etc. I started with whatever was first I think compound and then I just kept buying new shit as it would come out I was a little early to my first defi buys but once BTC trading up again Defi was the hot sector to play and I was lucky enough to be early this time As you can guess everything went wild. Some of my fonder memories celebrating with the homies as price kept going up(see pictures) Closing Thoughts: We've all been down bad but I still believe if you are retarded enough to refuse to give up and are blessed with a little luck, crypto is still the best market to pull out bread These screenshots take me back to a different era