Recently, I decided to check my feed, read some posts, and probably get "wowed" by some photography skills, splinterlands posts, or maybe some other forms of content I didn't know about that might thrill me. I was saddened by 70% of the content I saw, they were totally uninspiring. It was either the ideas were not probably thought out by the author, or they were just in a rush to click the "post" button.
It was difficult for me to click "vote" because I derived hardly any value and this is always the intent. I guess it's just me, I probably place so many expectations when I click the "view" button, I'm probably hoping to leave with valuable knowledge added to my arsenal and this is why I end up saddened, maybe I shouldn't be.
But Everyone Has Their Fetish
......and can't control it. I'm mostly drawn to creative impression, guile, and the ability to be epic What I mostly do is check the header of a post, (always originally owned headers) or the art in which the title of the post is. In reality, I used to love good old "click bait", but the issue with clickbait is that it's quite difficult to do it when you're reporting a piece of news online, or trying to rewrite an already-written work.
However, the whole aspect of contenting should be valued, and if this is not the initial intent, it would be difficult for an author to create the mental need to put in efforts to ascribe "impact" to their content. But it could be completely different and I might not totally be right.
Value & Sentimental Value
Something to consider?
Nevertheless, while value is relative, there's a way we can differently see value because people have a different fetish when it comes to what an individual will value most. This is a testament to the fact that people can differently see a reason to dislike or like the content.
sometimes an author can make a positive or negative impact in different ways and irrespective of the fact we might see things differently, when a content fails to hit it, it's difficult to attach that perspective or sentimental value to it. For some people, the thoughts of efforts not being equal to value are the cause of low effort. Some people create the mindset that efforts have to be equal to rewards, but the truth is, hive is a representation of real life.
Measuring Work: Soft Or Hard?
With What Metrics?
Some masons are more hardworking than bank Managers in real life, but the former is paid poorly while the latter is paid lesser. This is to say that efforts are measured differently. There are times people hit their highest level of productivity, but it wouldn't create that level of impact on those who are responsible to measure the degree of that value.
This only creates a downward slide, because sometimes people perceive or measure value from their point of view and when they hit that mental stretch, they begin to hit a decline because of their inability to keep improving themselves. The concept of entitlement is different. Sometimes overvaluing ourselves rather than choosing the measure ourselves with external yardsticks is why people hardly grow. They're stuck in the bubbles of excuses. Giving different reasons why they cannot keep trying if they'll keep failing.
The was a time I was underpaid in a job, irrespective of how underpaid I was, I tapped into the fact that the owner of the business lets me make my own mistakes and learn from them. I continued to accept underpayment as the sacrifice I had to make to grow. This is because I didn't overestimate my efforts, a lot of people would do that same job for less money.
While this is totally unfair, we have to understand that life and money are generally unfair
The Experiential journey
We cannot completely fathom how life works, but sometimes, seeing 100% "rightness" in the way we value ourselves, makes us blind to the bigger picture. Sometimes, our minds are smaller because logic isn't always ascribed to life and the bigger representation. This is why we should try to be liberal in our perception.
Back to content creation, I believe the value we get is the one we've accumulatively given and not the single efforts here and there. Sometimes when we want to think singular efforts go far, but no, I do not think so. At the end of the day, we're often left with changing our perception of work, effort, and value.
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