During my short month on steemit I've noticed an unfortunate pattern within myself. When payouts are good, I'm feeling great! Money is basically growing on trees and life is awesome! But then I create a post that gets less than a dollar and my excitement quickly turns to disappointment. It is embarrassing to admit, but I know others are in the same boat.
Why are we so quick to adapt to this extra money?
Before steemit, this money didn't even exist. So why is it so easy to become greedy and relient on it? I think humans are naturally wired to exist with a certain famine mentality that urges us to use up resources while they are present, because they might not be there in the future. With that in mind, we should all try to celebrate the high payouts when they come along and not become so disappointed when things are slower.
We are winning the lottery on a frequent basis without risking our own money on a losing ticket.
If you start to think of steemit posts as lottery tickets then you will slowly realize that the odds are greatly in your favor. Plus you don't have to hate yourself when that $5 investment becomes a loss. We're ALL winners in this!
So sit back, relax, and STOP getting hung up on the rewards of your posts.
Were all in a very lucky position so be happy! Cheers my friends!
You make great points Chris, it's hard to keep a healthy mindset when day-to-day payouts can be so unreliable. One post earns $50, the next earns $3 - and they both seem as good as each other to me!
It's like you said - before I had ANY posts earning $50, I felt great to earn $3. But expectations quickly rise to meet current earnings. Weird mental phenomenon.
I think maybe focusing on generosity, upvoting others, and trying to have a giving mindset is a good way to stay balanced.
We humans sure know how to turn a happy thing into a source of unhappiness.
For sure! It's very strange to me how the human mind works sometimes. Before steemit if someone handed me $5 I would be so stoked! But a $5 steemit post somehow seems like a "failure*" even though its free money. I'm trying to hard wire myself to overcome this lol.
Haha this is REAL TALK. I go through a streak of 0.01 per post for like 10 posts and beat myself up. "Why does nobody see this? I just made 10 bucks, why aren't I still?" I think more than anything I just want to know people VIEWED my art. I feel like I would be happy just with views even.
That's a very good point actually. Half the time I feel like posts payout so low simply because ppl don't even see them which sucks. Too much content out there lol
That's a great way of looking at it. I feel down when my posts get below $1 but then I boost it up with randowhale and make myself happy. :P
Right on - it's the our expectation that let's emotions get the better of us...
After all - we put out the post, invested time, thought and hope - and a post - well - flops.
However, for me, it is more a 'rejection' thing, coupled with pride. Did people just didn't care about the subject I addressed?
Main thing - the more we look at it from a fun - point with earning potential rather than the other way around - and the less we take ourselves so darn seriously and think we just wrote the best thing after the Bible, the easier it is to deal with a disappointment - and see it as a lesson of what doesn't work and and opportunity to do better.
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I couldn't agree more. Missing the payout is one thing but yeah that feeling of second guessing the quality of your work has got to be the worst of it.
I up voted.
I know I'm supposed to give substantive comments,
but the only thing I could think of when I read this post was....yep.
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Hahaha still a better comment than the copy/paste of "nice post" that i see floating around all the time. Thanks for reading!
going to follow you. I completely agree. Most of my posts today have been a few pennies.
Me as well lol