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Today's guest curator is @paradigmprospect. Pretty much anything can be found on Steemit - no matter what your passions are. The challenge often comes in finding the authors that fit what you are looking for, authors who take the train of thought to the next level so that we as readers might gain new insights on seemingly familiar states of affairs.

In the spirit of Steemit's diversity, @paradigmprospect invites you to check out these 5 vibrant Steemians today who are sharing their perspectives on a multitude of issues regarding trends on the blockchain, life in nature and dealing with obscure aspects of the societies we find ourselves in.

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Making Curation more Rewarding + Compelling Reasons Why You Should Be Doing It Regularly + Ways to Avoid Passive Following Habits

Steemit is not only a place to make great content but also to discover awesome contributions by our fellow authors on the blockchain. If you are still new to Steemit, it's a good idea to ask yourself: How do I use my votes? Do I bother to check out other's work in detail or do I trust my voting power to bots and auto-voting instead?

As @chelsea88 shares with us, there are good reasons to keep track of your creators actively instead of collecting followers for the sake of merely collecting followers. Spreading the love around to others on the platform (especially among small accounts) can do wonders for everyone involved and thus for the Steemit ecosystem as a whole. And establish new connections that really mean something.

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CRYPTO Markets Shed Over $15 BILLION In A Couple Hours -- Longer Term Interest Fading

Up and down, down and up. Where are we going with the crypto market, does anyone even know? Well maybe not, but authors like @exxodus do their best to keep us up to date with the market structure and the trends that seem to emerge in front of our eyes, against the romantic idea of a looming bull market that seems long overdue.

If you have a sizeable crypto portfolio, authors like this can be very helpful in assisting us to gauge the present situation of the markets and to help us come up with our individual strategies for dealing with the fluctuations that are inevitably coming our way. As @exxodus reminds us: for the largely subjective values of cryptocurrencies public sentiment is not to be underestimated.

If you feel a need to stay up to date with developments in the space I can highly recommend checking out his regular contributions.

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The Underbelly

There's always two sides to the coin, we've all heard that saying before. But often we tend to think that mistreatment, exploitation and the shadow aspects of important social issues can "only" be found in far-off places that "lack development". Is that really so, or are we simply looking away from where our attention is required with similar issues right where we live?

As @desertrat shows us, there is good reason to take note of society's "underbellies" that seem to exist anywhere in the human realm - so that awareness about these shadow aspects can grow in us to bring them to the surface. Ignoring an issue does not make it go away.

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Take Your Shoes OFF!-- They'll Make You Sick

Have you ever wondered about shoes and why we're constantly supposed to be wearing them? Are we really so fragile that we need this extra layer between our soles and the ground we are walking on to protect our health? If you've been a shoe fanatic all your life there might be great reasons to consider taking them off the next time you are out and about in nature, as this excellent article explores.

@rainbowrachel takes us into the magnificent world of grounding that can do real wonders for our health and for our ability to reconnect with the Earth we live on, if only we dare to step outside without that isolation layer on our feet. Magnificent article Rachel!

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To Love, Coexist, or Destroy? That Is The Question

As awareness begins to expand we often find ourselves in situations where we become the conscious arbiter of life and death over other life forms in our environment - the question is what do we do with that power? Killing insects off to get them out of the way no longer seems to be an easy option to live with ;)

As @thepatrick wrote in his inspiring article, there are different ways we can go about the tiny invaders that try to live with us on a daily basis - do we force them off, end their life or try to find a way to coexist with them? As I have found in my own life: Trust in nature and many problems will solve themselves.

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Conclusion

@paradigmprospect is an experienced guest curator that always brings the awesome! And by that I mean the awesome selections, awesome commentary, awesome mind expansion. Check out these amazing articles and let their authors know what you think! For submitting these excellent articles and commentary, @paradigmprospect earns 5 SBD.

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