Sometimes it takes going through it to learn it. Experience. Don’t beat yourself up. Few if any make all the right choices. Just try to always avoid the worst

Sometimes it takes going through it to learn it. Experience. Don’t beat yourself up. Few if any make all the right choices. Just try to always avoid the worst choices (which it sounds like you’ve done so far). And remember: one persons 83b triumph is another’s capital loss they get to carry forward for a while.