You're both taking my advice a little too literally. There's a huge gulf between the impossible ideal of somehow achieving an "all knowing, zen mastery" over a

You're both taking my advice a little too literally. There's a huge gulf between the impossible ideal of somehow achieving an "all knowing, zen mastery" over an investment and the "this looks fun, prices keep going up and everyone else is doing it". If you're going to risk large amounts investing in to something you should to try and get yourself as far away from the latter one as you can.