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I guess the higher your stake becomes, the more skeptical you become on clicking vote so as to not just vote any post, but posts you consider of value. That is mostly not the case with newer accounts with smaller stakes, because we believe our stakes are not big enough to make a significant difference.  Like you said though, value is relative. It could mean something as simple as whether a content is interesting or educative to some, or a complex assessment like originality of pictures used and availability of technical information in a post.

value comes when we make ourselves valuable, by investing in ourselves, when we are so valuable we might do less and get rewarded greatly for it. 

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>Sometimes overvaluing ourselves rather than choosing the measure ourselves with external yardsticks is why people hardly grow.

It's a sad reality that most of us get too comfortable with our capabilities, even if one does stand out and our value, effort or work is acknowledged to be excellent. One should remain motivated to grow and continue to put ourselves into situations that are unfamiliar to others: we turn to be valued more when we put ourselves in a demanding situation that raises challenges and preserve originality. 

Same way with writing content, you are right that a piece that lacks originality and effort to be unfamiliar can be disappointing especially if the title got the reader's hopes up. But it is also a learning curve to follow the footsteps of those who are already successful in what you want to achieve, it becomes a problem when one doesn't know where to draw the line between imitating and learning from others. When we imitate the work of others, we trade off our creativity to come up with something that lacks feelings and enthusiasm. This also leaves room for a lack of motivation for continuity.

I like your mindset when you had a low-paying job. How you chose growth- to focus your energy on learning to do the job better and to rather work on yourself than have a pity party. 

It's hard to really value things as everyone has a different perspective of what is valuable. Life is full of unfair things and we can only do the best we can. Of course, I do think that some of us do get complacent and stop trying to change though.

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>This is a testament to the fact that people can differently see a reason to dislike or like the content.

Content created by an author will surely be viewed by different people. Some people might like it, especially when it relates to them or the things they do and they were able to grab one or two things from it while others tend to dislike the content because they totally disagree with the author's view. Nevertheless, the effort put into work has to be valued but the reward must not be equal (=). 

>Some masons are more hardworking than bank Managers in real life.

I have seen this a couple of times. Most masons perform their jobs manually👨‍🔧 which is stressful 😩😩 and at the end of the day, they are paid a small amount of money 💵. On the other hand, bank managers who perform stress-free tasks comfortably with fans and AC are paid the sum of money. It is unfair but I've come to know that this only happens because of the importance attached to each.

Nice content @josediccus 👌.

> We cannot completely fathom how life works, but sometimes, seeing 100% "rightness" in the way we value ourselves

Yes,we cannot not really tell what life will be like in the coming days.

Nice writeup though.

Regardless of being liked or disliked, I firmly believe that if we enjoy what we are doing, surely we may forget to see how a certain content is valued by other people. Sometimes, it is a luck when it is being liked by many. 

Your thoughts are profound and I love how you share the reality in content creation.

The key is to keep the flame burning and not to give up. Have a nice time my friend and take care. 

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True, a random post here and there of exceptional quality maketh not a blogger... consistently great content has a way of "making a mark"!

> Some people create the mindset that efforts have to be equal to rewards, but the truth is, hive is a representation of real life.

This is really the sad truth. It is sad because hard work does not generally mean value. I for one, took a long time to realized this. I've met some people in and outside of Hive who expect high reward because they put so much effort on their work that they ended up disappointed in the end. I tried convincing them to try again for the experience over the reward but most of them didn't.

In terms of content creation, I value the creativity and originality put into the thumbnail, title and the short description. This is what makes me read the content or not. I usually skip to read those who are using repetitive titles, thumbnails and description.

In my case however, I am aware that I needed to improve a lot about writing and that is the reason why I kept on writing whatever I can think of. Believe it or not, but most of my post takes days to complete. If I am just after the reward then I would have quit a long time ago. 😊

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