Good human
Patience, emotional control, resourcefulness, ethics, honesty, compassion, self-determination and integrity. Are things like this important to navigate this world as a successful human?
Born with it
We are all born with various skills that lend their hand to support a range of activities but, this is just potential use, these skills aren't guaranteed nor are they fully developed. To really utilise them, they need to be worked on, much like everything else of value in this world. But, when it comes to something like* integrity,* how do we improve, is there training?
Yes, it is called life and that is the same with most of the skills that make the kinds of skills that people value, in order to possess them, one has to spend some time living and with a full range of experience. When it comes to personal values, they can be improved.
You, me and we
But, we live in a continually disconnected world behind digital screens and opaque walls that tend to incentivize the self over others more heavily than any community requires. Individualism is great but, not when a group of people who cooperate and work together is required to solve problems. There needs to be a balance between the individual and the community that allows both to flourish.
Very few people on this earth can practically live independent completely yet, there are a large amount of people attempting to do this through financial independence alone. Financial independence doesn't exist. It is interdependence. Being to buy your way doesn't make you self-sufficient, it makes you reliant on service providers.
The idea of a community in essence could be one that finds the balance point between flourishing and opportunity for the individuals within and the ability to cooperate and solve larger problems together.
Staked out
I see stake in much the same way and have mentioned that a 50/50 approach to personal account growth and community growth is a decent position for both. Some will argue of course that it is my stake, I can do with it as I please, but is this actually the case? I don't think so.
The reason that Steem has any value at all isn't because of an individual, it is because a community has agreed that there is value in it which means, the stake held is backed by the community who holds it, trades it, distributes it. If for some reason that community decides it isn't worth it, they can all dissolve their interest and all stake is now valueless.
Very interesting
Dissolving interest is perhaps a good way to look at a community who backs something but instead of looking at it from a financial investment perspective, look at it from a personal investment angle. Interest is the time and effort invested into something for example, I am interested in my child's future. This means I am investing conscious energy to do my best for her.
When it comes to a community, it is the same thing. This is why engagement is so important here, it is interesting. There are many ways to engage people however essentially all of those long term factors require human interaction, connection, relationships and trust that allow the group to solve large problems together.
Human skills
And, lets have a little look at some of the skills that are important to be a 'good human' in a healthy community. Patience, emotional control, resourcefulness, ethics, honesty, compassion, self-determination and integrity. Is this what we are engaging with, experiencing, providing, learning, evolving?
Currently, I don't think the community is operating on the concepts that empower a community to have the resources to help the individuals within to prosper and make their lives better. It does support some to do so though but many of those benefiting heavily aren't necessarily those supporting back into the community.
Critical juncture
There is a critical point somewhere that I hope we never reach but I think it is currently coming closer. At some point, it gets to a stage where there isn't enough human interaction and care taken to keep the people interested in holding their stake at all and at that point, the dissolution of the environment will increase rapidly as it snowballs.
What is strange is that many of those with the largest stake backed by that very community are not interested in doing much about it, even though it essentially costs them nothing to spend a little time supporting the community to keep their interest in Steem.
I hope we don't reach that pivot point but to avoid it means that people are going to have to learn how to be humans living in a community again, not individuals who think they don't need one.
Taraz
[ a Steem original ]
If you actually love some thing you give all your time,money, and effort to make it more better. This is just like an avid gardener who spends ample time nurturing a garden just to achieve the well managed and a beautiful land scape garden we all admire. Any one that desires thesame must be willing to go through the consistent almost painful routine to achieve similar results.A good gardener needs constant soil cultivation, watering, nurturing and more makes the plant flourish.
Thesame nurturing principles work for your ideas. Whether you are just starting here consistent idea nurturing is very necessary for steemit growth. You cant water your ideas or dreams just when you feel like; it must be consistent and purposeful to achieve a real lasting result.Thanks to my mentor on steemit @tarazkp Greetings from me sir
We are creatures of nature and nurture. Must are choosing base nature over community nurture.
Nature and nurture both are important sources of variation between individuals,nurturing the community is our number one pariority here i mean community is the reason why we are all here we need to nurture it to a vibrant community.
Community nurture evolves from the base nature of maximizing your own advantage though, surely?
i.e. It is beneficial to cooperate for your - (and coincidentally - others advantage.)
...digital communities have a different set of rules to gain advantage...
...this is from a political perspective - but it is very relevant to this... (it's all the same, essentially)..
https://steemit.com/blog/@lucylin/the-crux-of-leftist-thinking-has-nothing-to-do-with-marx
I think it's exactly the same fundamental question, or problem rather, now I think about.
Tigers cannot change their stripes.
Rivers do not flow upstream.
And it is likely not logical to expect a change in the status quo to begin at the top, no matter how fruitful that may be.
I was saying to someone yesterday that this isn't going to be a trickle down system. There is so much power/potential power in the lower reaches yet, they are acting in much the same way. my observation here is not that the top should do something, rather that it is strange they aren't so interested in doing something considering an engaged user bases makes their investment grow exponentially.
I understand, but it is not uncommon for those who feel they have created a comfortable level to begin to relax in that position and enjoy the rewards with no additional effort under the assumption that it will last forever. Easy money.
Complacency usually requires a sharp, unexpected stimulus to get the attention of the complacent. They're not going to suddenly awaken, stretch, yawn, and decide that today they are going to change their behavior...or stripes.
Definitely. change unfortunately usually comes when there is some kind of rock bottom or wake up call event. It is pretty silly as humans who are created as communicators fail to learn from the mistakes of others.
Never better said my dear friend. I wonder what they'll be doing next if everyone decide it's not worth to be trading with their wheelbarrow of seashells everywhere anymore.
Yep! I reckon they'll be interested in doing much more. But maybe, when they realize that it prolly is too late for them.
perhaps it is enough for them where they are now. Patience is a virtue that crypto knows little of. Bankers understand it though.
Uhm, yeah 'perhaps' indeed!! until they figure out how to avoid that painful slow trickle during (13 odd weeks) to escape slump if they don't do anything quick and just right now.
¿Patience? Ah! what naive and good people I am.
shush!!... I should have provided this link instead to make them shit in their pants faster. };)
I love how blunt words just keep coming out of you. The truth is, most of us want the profit before the investment or the ripe fruits before all of that cultivating or even planting. I think most Steemians who have those traits either came here through some fanatic Youtuber selling Steemit as the site of quicks upvotes and Steem and if you don't get those you can try the flooding bots and bully your way to the same moon another Steemian is working their butt off to get to.
That said... it's sad to hear a believer like you talk of the end... if the selfishness in this community doesn't tone down but it also gives me comfort to know that most of those coming up are fighting for their cents honestly so we have a better chance of outdoing those doing harm to this community. Great read as usual :)
..it depends purely on your own definition of success. ( A psychopath's definition is probably much different than your own for example - unless you're a psychopath as well, of course!)
A digital community isn't a human community, no matter how much some of us would like to see it that way. It just isn't.
All the qualities you mention are admirable, but borne from a necessity of proximity of other individuals.
The digital world doesn't need these qualities for a human to advance (from an individual perspective),
The qualities you mentioned are needed to advance on a personal level, in a human community.
I'm not sure how to reconcile the difference.
(or even if they are reconcilable)
Maybe because 'we' are looking at it from 'the old' paradigm, it blinds us to new (different?) realities..
awwww shit... I'm getting old!
(apologies for even worse typos than normal - 3 whiskeys will do that to me, nowadays!)
Hi Taraz. I understand the 50/50 now. I need to do 5 posts as day basically and will start a bigger slog now. Didn't realize what you meant initially. Just got to get the voting power up as has taken a hit over the last few days. Using the slider on busy now.
Very nice piece mate. How is your daughter? The world we live in now see's too many people sitting on potential skills instead of developing them, honing, sharpening and putting these to use.
The excuse I hear often is ït is just my nature to be this way", really poor excuse for being lazy and selfishly detaching from the very community they look to for support when the chickens come home to roost. Cutting off the hand you ask for food is never clever.
The population is growing and I wonder when people will realise that they must learn to work together or the outcome will be dire.