Potentially flawed: fearing to begin

There are a lot of opportunities in the world and those that have come into the cryptosphere recently like myself, are slowly having their eyes widened to include a whole lot more that they previously had no idea about at all. This candy store selection of possibility opens up so many options that it can freeze action altogether.

There are so many things to learn, try, invest in and play with that it is hard to know where to get started. If looking at it all together, the sheer volume of opportunity and the speed at which it travels is enough to raise the FOMO. And that is before having a good understanding it.

This high speed movement and changeover of information means that we are unsure which tail to grab onto and even when we grab one, we are wondering if we should have grabbed for another instead. Last night I was chatting with an intelligent young guy who has just these issues.

He is full of enthusiasm but does not know where to start, he sees many tails, but none clearly enough to grab for any. He has big dreams but not the skills or knowledge to get started, nor the capital to buy them.

My advice in these areas is nearly always the same, make a small step, the next will lead from there. The reason is that while watching it all rush by trying to decide, the opportunities missed keep piling up but, yet very little is being learned. This increasing the feeling of missing out and keeps piling on the pressure, especially since one sees others making moves.

Making a small step means that one can learn and build some kind of platform to spring off to the next and each move has a cumulative effect so the next step is a little longer than the last. This means that travel becomes faster and faster and catching tails easier.

At each learning point, discovery takes place which will point several logical paths forward and with each layer of movement added, the choice becomes easier, the skillset higher, and the potential to take to hand more than one tail at a time, greater.

This builds a continually expanding network of experience and platforms that will not only help go forward but be able to take a wide view and notice trends through the various strings. It becomes a spider web that is able to detect the vibrations made in one area and recognise what effects it may have on another.

This again expands opportunity and choice but, it is an expansion based on experience and knowledge, not a naive fear of missing out. There are so many opportunities and potential pathways however that is is likely impossible for anyone person to invest themselves into all.

So, once one begins, it is advisable to find a niche to specialise in and build outwards from there. This means that there is a core trunk with logical branches so that if the core path is no longer viable for some reason, any number of branching fields can replace it. It is having numerous streams plus a continual contingency approach in case of calamity.

But, all of the thinking and ideas, hopes and dreams are for nought if one is never going to take a step. In a field as immature as crypto and blockchain, the ones that step first have the chance to make very large gains indeed and become influencing forces on the directions.

There are so many people I know and have met recently who have so much potential to do so much with yet, they are frozen, unsure, unwilling to grab a tail just in case it is not the right one. It is not because they are unskilled in what they currently do, but they are uncomfortable with the uncertainty of doing different.

Unfortunately, many of these people are likely to become the coulda, woulda, shoulda types of the future. The ones who had the skills and capital at the right time, but waited because it was not the right time for them. We have all experienced this in different forms and different areas throughout our lives.

This is the fear talking, nothing else.

Taraz
[ a Steemit original ]