From Survival to "I Am God"

New users entering crypto quickly encounter a specific kind of success story.

It usually starts with collapse.

A young trader is broke. Stranded. Out of options. Living on almost nothing. The story emphasizes desperation because desperation establishes credibility: this wasn’t privilege, this was survival.

Then comes the turning point.

Not research. Not improved risk management. Not diversification. Instead, a mental shift.

I decided to stop choosing scarcity. I realized I could manifest abundance.

From that moment onward, the story accelerates unnaturally fast. Hundreds become millions. Weeks replace years. Chance is compressed into destiny.

To a new crypto user, this can feel inspiring. What’s actually happening is more subtle — and more dangerous.

The Market Outcome Comes First. The Meaning Comes Later.

Early crypto markets were highly asymmetric. A small number of participants entered:

• before liquidity
• before mainstream attention
• before competition
• before risk was priced in

Some of them made extraordinary returns.

That part is real.

What comes after is interpretation.

Instead of attributing outcomes to:

• timing
• volatility
• survivorship bias
• asymmetric upside

the story is reframed as proof of personal alignment.

The trade didn’t work because the market was early. It worked because the trader knew it would.

Luck becomes certainty. Certainty becomes identity.

Belief Is Recast as a Financial Mechanism

These stories often introduce a doctrine:

• Doubt blocks results
• Faith collapses timelines
• The “how” doesn’t matter
• Reality reorganizes itself around certainty

The implication is clear: if you don’t succeed, you failed spiritually, not financially.

This removes the need to discuss:

• risk
• drawdowns
• probability
• losses that didn’t make it into the story

For a new user, this is especially dangerous. It teaches the wrong lesson:

Your mindset determines outcomes more than the market does.

In crypto, this is false.

Authority Is Built Through Exclusivity

Notice the repeated signals:

• “Only a few will understand”
• “This isn’t for everyone”
• “Most people won’t get this”

This language does two things:

1. It elevates the narrator above the reader
2. It discourages skepticism (doubt = misalignment)

Once belief is tied to identity, questioning the story feels like questioning yourself.

This is how traders become teachers. And how teachers become “senseis.”

The Missing Half of the Story

What these narratives rarely include:

• The thousands who tried the same trades and failed
• The timing luck of entering a specific ecosystem early
• The role of leverage, concentration, and exposure
• The years where the same mindset produced losses

Markets reward outcomes, not intention.

When markets reverse — as they always do — the doctrine remains, but the money doesn’t.

At that point, believers are told they:

• lost faith
• interfered with doubt
• weren’t aligned enough

The belief system survives. The user doesn’t.

What New Crypto Users Should Learn Instead

Crypto is not a manifestation engine.

It is:

• a high-volatility market
• driven by narratives, liquidity, and timing
• brutally indifferent to belief

Mental discipline matters. Risk management matters more. No mindset overrides math.

If a story explains wealth without explaining risk, probability, or loss, it’s not education. It’s mythology.

And mythology is expensive to learn from.