THIS is what Beniamin means when he says lower your expectations.

In a world of everyone having expectations that are TOO high, what expectations do *you*have for #EGLD and @MultiversX?

At the end of the day, I think that sometimes the verbiage of an excited founder with big vision and big ideas can be misinterpreted by the average retail investor to mean BAGS WILL PUMP SOON.

Yes some missteps are made and false hope could be painted, but really truly what are your expectations and more importantly, on what timeline?

Patience is the key! Getting distracted by bags pumping is not the key to personal growth, it's building a rewarding life for yourself that includes lots of self-accomplishments.

I began investing in crypto in 2017 and bought $erd in 2019 and set for myself the expectation of 10 years. By the end of year 5 my 5-figure portfolio had turned into 7-figures and I lost connection with my true self and what I want in life, and inevitably, I fumbled the bag, got $70k stolen when I was trying to move it out of crypto to pay off my student loans, put all the other profits I had taken back into the market to try to recoup the money I had lost, and it was very truly all down hill from there. My portfolio value literally took a complete round-trip and I am extremely low on resources. I have some regrets, but at the end of the day, I'm glad I had that experience happened to me because what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

I've been thinking a lot recently - and haven't been posting much - as I'm trying to figure out how to use my account, reach, community here for good and not just use it as an echo chamber or a place to air my grievances when I see things that @MultiversX is doing that doesn't really excite me or even frustrates me because honestly it doesn't feel like it's a step in the right direction that will pump bags.

The big idea here is that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Which means that complex systems cannot be fully understood by examining their individual parts in isolation. Instead, it is the dynamic interactions and relationships between those parts that lead to the emergence of new properties that do not exist in any single component.

Preaching to you and myself here when I say that it's of no use to single out any one particular partnership or product or fundamental point that can show why @MultiversX is an extremely compelling layer-1 blockchain solution.

Step back, be patient, don't lose the forest from the trees, move with conviction with a longer-term broader picture in mind and the rest will take care of itself. 🙌