Sometimes I think the male psyche (or the masculine polarity, if you will) prefers boom-and-bust over equanimity. I suspect this is because it uses stress as a mechanism to learn its own limits

This is why the "it's so over / we're so back" sentiment thrives in the wild west of crypto, which due to selection bias is mostly men

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Prob a combo of a lot of things, but a table stakes consideration is that western men are generally fed a steady diet of outlier/high volatility media as “the goal” from childhood, are rewarded with status/credibility for big “failures”, and have lived in rapidly accelerating “achievement defines your baseline worth as a human being and potential romantic partner” arms race with societal expectations for the past 30 years.
(as well as being predisposed towards greater risk taking anyway)

If your “success case” lives 3x standard deviations away from the median then the only rational economic move is massive risky bets (aka volatility by default)

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