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Grit Training is The Only Way to Survive a 90% Crypto Drawdown

3 May 2026 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker defines "grit training" as deliberately practicing extremely difficult tasks under pressure to build mental fortitude. He argues that when a crypto portfolio crashes by 90% and social pressure mounts—friends accusing you of scamming and abandoning the space—only a deep, trained grit can keep you moving forward. The speaker emphasizes a psychological shift that involves completely detaching from money and reality, maintaining belief that recovery will happen. He claims that grit is far more decisive than intelligence for surviving such crises.

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Mental fortitude is training yourself to do hard things under pressure. In general, doing very hard stuff in a training-like style and not folding, it's called grit training. And this will help you because what's going to happen is when the pressure's on, when all of your friends start calling you a scammer, everyone leaves crypto, right? And all these people just don't want to talk to you anymore because you like— they think you scammed them and your portfolio is down 90%. Like, there's, there's something that has to click in your brain to where you do it anyways. Like, there has to be some type of shift where you completely detach from all of your money, completely detach from reality in general, and you just believe that it's gonna happen. Grit is a more important determining factor than intelligence by far.