> 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. 😊

!1UP
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