ESTEEM: The Real Reason Steem Was Invented And Why You're Not Earning Rewards
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Thanks for your post. I am trying to think up how to get people in my community involved in steem and creating ways for a non-profit that I am founding to generate revenue with Steem to do programming to benefit the community. I would also like to see more businesses accepting various types of crypto-currency. Do you see this happening anywhere that could serve as an example?
It's hard for me to upload a video on how I'm changing the world because I don't see myself as attempting to change the world. I quit doing that when I discovered that nobody wanted that. Now I'm just working on changing myself to be a better human being. They say if you want to change the world, you have to start with yourself.
yeah, and then when you are successful in that, you can start the work of helping others, by creating solutions that affect tons of people....that's what I am looking for.
True, start with yourself, and then expand.
there is a quote i found in a introduction post i read recently and i think it applies here:
What is really hard and really amazing is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself...
source : https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@yogacoach/introducemyself-presenting-your-new-yogacoach-en-de
i guess if we are ourselves in the end the people will be more likely to follow you and interact then if we pretend to be something better then we are... (and most of us fall for that, thats why Facebook is keeping us entranced more then it should)
Just keep on working to be a better human being, so will I and we can support eachother by being ourselves
The problem with "just being yourself" is it is terrible advice designed to make you fail.
How long have men been getting (and, sadly, listening to) the advice from women in the dating world to "just be yourself"? Ever try it? Lol. Social interactions are a complex web of deceptions. Anyone telling you to be yourself wants (consciously or subconsciously) the gamer theoretical advantage of getting to not be themself while you are.
"Just be yourself" means "lower your standards to the point where they are already met, blame yourself for nothing, be willing to be happy with no growth." At least it does in practice, most of the time.
Not a great life philosophy. "Be better," is a much better one.
well, i was saying becoming yourself, its always a work in progress of betterment but striving to be perfect is giving up on something that just doesn't exist...
we must continuously evolve and get better but we will never be perfect
I agree with your thoughts. Didn't mean to seem like I was in disagreement, I just like to get specific with language.
+lexiconical That psychoanalytical part of us that subliminally seeks to help people reach higher than self, is often misunderstood. It does no good to apologize. Those seeking to be better will get it without offense. Those who need it most will seek to defend the work they need to do.
+felander I so agree that perfection is the enemy of peace, and a form of arrogance believing that the possibility could ever really exist. Many people never complete a task, or start one for that matter; because, the old demon Perfectionism lassos them into believing they can and will never be good enough.
To both of you,
Peace!
Perfect: the enemy of pretty good.
Ha! So truth! I do believe pretty good and good enough are akin to each other.
Makes sense to me.
A great rule to follow. You are the person you have to spend the most time with, so improving yourself is win-win. Or just a single win - I'm not too clear on that.
I think it depends on if improving your life is beneficial to others, I think that would be considered a win-win. :-)
I like to think that improving any person is a net increase in the quality of humanity, so we all win.
True enough!
This post is a great reminder or explanation (for those who didn't already know) of what the ideals and goals of this platform are. It is important to keep people focused on the task at hand and keep people from straying onto the sidelines. This is still a very new concept and there will undoubtedly be those who will attempt to drive it into a new direction. Thanks for keeping everyone on track!
I agree. Great post thanks :) I really hope this vision prevails. Regular social media makes me want to dry wretch it's so vapid. I actually had a little rant about something similar yesterday. (https://steemit.com/marketing/@joannajablonka/do-we-need-heros-idols-and-the-belief-in-fairytales)
I'm tired of seeing self proffessed thought leaders parroting other people's words and ideas to a million other parrots who will do it all again.
People are on interested in them because they see these people as a model for their own self enhancement. Eg wealth, self 'development', marketing, make up, fitness.
Maybe it's a case of sour grapes but I'm just sick of seeing these 'gurus' everywhere and people wasting energy on modelling themselves in their image (think Kim Kardashian..) when they could be doing so much more for this world!
Let's get real and realize we are all just people with limited potential. Our greatest potential is if we leave ego aside and come together for higher aspirations.
Also I was thinking steem must have come from esteem. What do you know!
yes, well said!
This was a good post, I disagree on this line:
I ended the quote where I needed to end it. "leave ego aside", That is a boot-lick white coat society member rationality. To believe we can not not "come together for higher aspirations" until we leave our EGO behind is an elitist trap. If you think STEEMIT or anything we have today is possible because of people that have "Left their EGO Behind", then who has on the blinders? The ego is a big part of what makes us who we are. It is my belief without our ego's we would get nothing done. A person with a lack of confidence has killed his ego. Do you think an extremely confident person,(Trump, Dan,Rush,Obama,Clinton), are all completely without ego? Ne we need more people building thier ego up, not trashing their ego down, to make the world a better place. Good people with large ego's to combat the big ego bad people.
You shouldn't drop on the floor like a wet mop.
But I think you can never be omniscient and all powerful either.
Obama and Trump certainly learned that.
We are all limited, but we are all equally powerful.
It's base nature to think - what do I want.?
What do I think is best? But it's also weakness.
You'd get further by thinking what do we want? Want is actually best? It's hard... but it's worth it.
And don't give your power away to people who tell you their way is best. I guess that includes me here :)
Just please value them as equally as you value yourself.
You don't need ego in order to have self confidence.
The Buddhists have a term "manas consciousness", which is something like ego. It is deluded because it clings on to attachments of this world. But according to them, there is really no such thing as the self. I guess the trick is not to get attached to this world.
Woah, I got through his whole post without realizing it was written by you. Not surprised :-)
It's funny, I I never thought that the intention behind steemit was to find non violent solutions to problems but that is almost exactly what I am here for. So you kind of reinforce and make literal what I've said before, that steemit was made for people like me.
Words are so funny..I love looking up etymologies! They stick around such a long time..I had no idea that Esteem was the origin of Steem! Pretty interesting :P That tricky Dan...! I always imagined it was a cutesy way of saying 'Steam', like the pressure that builds up and powers something. I like the Esteem image much better!
Dan doesn't create cutesy solutions.
Before counting the several development teams, the other hundreds and thousands of contributors to Steemit, there is a team of 32+ dedicated individuals including 20+ developers on steemit.com and Steem, the blockchain. Beyond that, a remaining founding team of four. I find some of this post rather disservicing to the brilliant minds we have on the team today; I can't look back and agree for one second with some of the statements made above. The origination, design and the best on Steem yet to come has been born from the teammates we have here today. I hope you'll attribute the accomplishments to the team that has actually designed, built and continues to build it with our mission in mind of actually delivering this platform all the way through.
You did come up with the name Steem which was the root of this article. Far better than the WebClout name I pitched you when you came to visit early 2016 and I asked you to be CEO of this company / project.
Naming was a team effort, Ben came up with the proposal for the name WebClout, and I recall your later proposal in the Lefty's parking lot for Peanuts and its catch phrase, "we're making peanuts"; a catchy name actually. We had some good laughs those days.
I have added this in the article. In fact, I would love it if you could write a genesis story for everyone here. Many people don't know this story, including myself. IF you have further edits on this article, please forward it to me and I will add it. I would guess I have many details left out.
@ned hello, sorry to comment in your comment post , but this is importan for me, im drawing pict your face , maybe you want to look,
this is My appreciation for @ned - drawing design
https://steemit.com/art/@arie.steem/my-appreciation-for-ned-drawing-design
Good afternoon @dan
I hope today finds you well. My name is Jane, and I have contacted @stellabelle via the Steemit.chat application in regards to this post. Seeing as I believe this to be relevant to the conversation here, and the mission statement of Steemit, I would love to invite you to be a guest on Monday Night Minnow School, a radio program on MSP Waves radio network, to speak to our listeners. Monday Night Minnow School is hosted by @sircork on Monday evenings, 7PM CST/8PM EST at mspwaves.com. We would be truly grateful if you would consider accepting this invitation to speak with @sircork and to minnow listeners about Steemit. Please contact myself if you are interested, and I will put you into contact with @globocop and @sircork on Discord. Thank you for taking the time to read this, and I look forward to hearing your reply. Have a wonderful afternoon!! Thanks again for consideration.
(and I do appreciate @stellabelle, for letting me jump in here? I apologize if this correspondence was done via incorrect channels. Thank you!!!!)
Jeesh, Webclout sounds like a mix of cleft palette and some kind of prion disease in the brain. Thank goodness for @ned creating Steem.
I have fixed it in the post.
Nice team work everyone. I am happy to see that you are still active members on this website.
I visited many of the whales' pages (known them from steemdown.com) but many of them didn't even make a single post since they joined. So I thought they may be part of the founders team of steemit.
Thanks again for your efforts. Please keep up the good work and updates.
Thanks for this clarification. I doubt if anyone knows this detail.
Unfortunately, this was a missed opportunity to partner with the American Red Cross and blood banks to form a "WebClot" initiative. You could have had an ICO for the new "bloodchain".
I understand your point in highlighting the current team working behind Steem. Hat's off to the work that you and your team is accomplishing.
I know Steem is very dear to Stella and her blog is a pretty clear testament to that.
And I enjoyed this post and the spirit of it like many did and in noway did I see it has disservicing the current people working on Steem on the contrary.
I always assumed it was a double pun; "steam" for the idea of power building up and "esteem" for the idea of people holding each other in higher and higher esteem as we all grow together lol
Reading posts like this are exactly what attracted me to SteemIt from the start. Thank you for this. Thank you for composing this in such a way that it can be digested by anyone and they will come away slightly more enlightened then they were before reading it. Your writing is fantastic and I have nothing but admirable respect for posts like this. Kudos 👏
Resteemed. Just had to.
"Now with that said, you are free to exploit yourself for profit."
My doctor said I should stop doing this.
"Suffering has a big role to play in empathy."
Wise words.
"hint: money is a side effect of how many lives you touch."
I hope this becomes truer in the mainstream as well, as cryptocurrency wrests control back of money for the "decentralized people".
Good points. I hope we'll both get to see less of each other in the flagging list.
PS - Did you see the post "why I'm upvoting Chainflix"? (not an endorsement)
i didn't see it...who wrote it?
Pulled it from my history, here you go:
https://steemit.com/copyright/@demotruk/why-i-am-upvoting-chainflix
Wow! Great post @stellabelle! So glad I found your account to follow early on.
We live in an instant gratification society, at least in the States we do, and anything we have to work for seems too HARD.
Thank you for the link to Dan's intro. I am headed to read that right now, so I can learn more about this platform. I have become addicted to it and look to it for more content than facebook and twitter combined, and those used to be my go-tos. I don't know anyone on here in person, but your (steem in general, not you specifically) comments and feedback are so much more engaging that the other platforms.
Have a wonderful day! And thanks again for sharing!!
I agree
I didn't realise how rich of a background steem had. I guess most of us are blind to the foundations of this blockchain and idea and only see the prospering and thriving product.
This really opens my eyes on what Dan really is like and how much he good he wants to create for the world to receive.
It is unfortunate we have people who are trying to ruin the site but at least we have a community mostly driven by passion rather than greed that can stop this.
It seems like sometimes you have to start from the bottom and experience all the vulgar, damaging thing society has to offer to really build on it and remedy it and I wish large figureheads had the same thinking as Dan.
Rather than trying to reap the system or say how unfair it is as they want a bigger stake people should let their creative fluids flow, blog what they want, for friendships and bonds and as you said, money is just a side effect from all of this @stellabelle! :)
I wish my upvote were worth much more than it is, because you deserve it! Oh the lack of shame and outright disrespect for others and the platform I've seen lately...
I've said for a while, the marketing of Steemit has to change in some way. We are attracting the wrong kind of people. The facebook addicts who believe superficial likes are king. They come here and find a way to start "earning" money, and find every way possible to rake in as much as they can from the same dribble that's totally accepted on shallow social platforms.
Steemit is deep. It's why the idea of an ocean fits so well. No one is creating value with one line posts about their morning bowel movement, and no one should be rewarded for shit posting.
I'm all about your #waronspam, and try to protect the pool from a few pennies of theft af a time 😉