With some basic knowledge and skills the OP is good to go, basic knowledge on how to create a wallet and how to register with any reputable exchange which will enable the OP to buy bitcoin via debit card and how to transact bitcoin are very necessary skills.
Moreso the OP should inquire on the appropriate time to buy bitcoin especially at the time when the price is very low i.e during price correction while avoiding buying at the peak, also time to sell and should erase the mindset of earning massive profits after making a considerable amount of profits.

Nice. So which wallet have you decided to start with? If you are starting with any wallet I am going to recommend that you start with recommended wallets as to get to learn the basics of how it works. And when you have got into learn the basics of making use of a cryptocurrency wallet, you can then move over to making use of a non custodial wallet like Trust wallet.

For now, I would say you should start with any easy-to-use wallets some people have recommended, especially centralized ones. They are easy to use and one thing with using a centralized wallet is that you would have the customer support in case you encounter any issue on their platform.

Decentralized wallets are not really like that, when you are making use of a decentralized wallet you are completely on your own and every decision you make is just on you. Maybe when you now have full knowledge on cryptocurrency you can then start making use of more advanced wallets.

Having technical skills is not necessary for you to be able to invest in Bitcoin and hodl it.

All you need to know is how to make use of the wallet of your choice and how you can buy Bitcoin. You can decide to make use of a simple centralized wallet such as coinbase.com which most of the newbies I see always goes for it, and of course when I was a newbie I started with coinbase.com because it was very easy to make use of and also they have a feature that allows you to send and receive money using your email, although this works between Coinbase to Coinbase accounts.

So, you can use it to start up and make your first investment in Bitcoin. Then I would say that what you need is patience and also to be able to analyze the data you have on the chart to be able to tell whether you are to continue holding or not.

 This is true for every currency and every product in the world. It only has enough value as people claim it has. In a company that producses a product, they may drop it to a level and then it would be a loss so they would bankrupt before they could sell it for %90+ cheaper, that won't happen, they will either make a lot of profit or not enough. I always said Apple products are always too high in price and do not worth their price for example but people still pay it, because they are apple.

 Dollar has a value, why? Because people see it that valuable, yuan has a value, euro has a value, recently ruble lost its value for example. All depending on what people are willing to pay for it and nothing else. This is why bitcoin also has a value, thats the value we have right now, what we believe it should be, market decides it just like anything else.

And as a result they're deceived. At least the basic technical (how to distinguish bitcoin or fork) should also be mastered in this realm. Someone sometimes people offer cheaper fake bitcoins (forks) through centralized services where transactions aren't recorded, because of ignorance beginners won't realize and don't even understand what blockchain is which is one way to distinguish genuine or fake.