After downing two bottles of cough syrup and swallowing an assortment of coloured pills over the long New Year's day weekend to prevent me from coughing (or rather barking) incessantly, I finally came up for air yesterday just in time to join a small group of die hard Steemians from #TeamMalaysia for a teh tarik (tea time) session to discuss on the upcoming [Steemit gathering](https://steemit.com/sndbox/@bitrocker2020/teammalaysia-gathering-or-13th-jan-2018-or-12-30-3-30pm)



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Picture courtesy of @elizacheng and photographed by @aaronleang



During the session, everyone was really excited when Steem breached the USD8 mark. What a great way to kickstart the new year! When I was recruited to join Steemit last year, I remembered I was told 1 Steem is roughly equivalent to USD1. Back then, I thought that was really cool compared to our miserable Ringgit. Little did I know that in less than 6 months, the value had gone up by more than 8 times! And talks are abuzz that it could go up to even USD10! Insane! Even my fixed deposit interests don't offer me such good returns. 

*Now*...don't you wish you had created more content or even got started earlier in the game? You could have accumulated quite an impressive sum by now, if you did.

This brought to mind something which I often observed during Steemit.up's 100 Degrees workshops where the speakers  @bitrocker2020 and @maverickfoo would do their best to introduce Steemit to a room full of crypto enthusiasts, writers, artists, videographers, photographers, curious onlookers, etc. At the end of each session during the Q&A, I noticed the ones who seemingly look more intelligent were often the first ones to raise their hands up in the air and asked a barrage of questions...


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>***Is Steem considered real money?***

>***How do you convert Steem to Ringgit Malaysia?***

>***Where do they get the money to pay us?***

>***What if I don't get paid?***



And the lists goes on...

The more technical questions they asked, the more confused they became. While both the speakers tried their best to answer their 1001 questions, you could still sense the doubt lingering in their minds. And without fail, towards the end of each session only a handful of brave souls would walked up to the speakers to find out how they could get started, while the vast majority would go home probably coming up with 1001 reasons why this is a scam or why it will not work, etc.

In the end, those who stayed back to engage with the speakers were often times the ones who took action and earned their first Steem on Steemit. 

If you are reading this and you are one of them, congratulations for taking action and for diving straight in despite not knowing a 100% of why or what or how Steemit/Steem/cryptocurrency works (me neither!)

And bless those who continue to plan, strategise and analyse until they paralyse, but still take **no action**

Because....at the end of the day, ***imperfect action is better than perfect inaction***




*PS: If this blog post resonates with you, do Upvote, Resteem and Follow me on Steemit. Have an awesome year ahead Steemians!*