Steemit incentivizes creativity (Penny for your thoughts)

I love the effect Steemit is having, people are sharing their ideas!. I am a teacher and I can't emphasize how important I think this is. People are shy, they're nervous, they're scared about putting themselves out there and of discussing an idea they've had. But give that same person a reward, even if it's only a few cents, and they open right up. I wish I could pay my students to express themselves more.

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But it gets so much better than that, as a lot of us have found out, if you post an idea off the top of your head, twitter style, you're probably not going to get much of a reward. Steemit's reward system encourages us not only to share our ideas, but to put a lot of work into fleshing them out before we post them. A well thought out idea will be much better received, than just the kernel of one . This 'fleshing out' of ideas also leads us to self regulate ourselves, I have had a number of ideas for posts, that after thinking them through, I had managed to disprove the point I thought I was making. While on twitter these half baked thoughts would of been long past sent and forgotten.

Now whenever I think of something interesting or thought provoking, instead of writing that short tweet, I jot it down on a piece of paper. And when I have time, I reexamine it, and then try to expand on it before finally posting it here. In fairness most of the time I find out that what I found interesting or thought provoking is very often actually banal and boring to most. But at least I get a few cents out of a thoughtful yet boring post on steemit rather than the nothing I get on reddit or twitter.

Stay thinking, stay posting

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• I decided to look through some old posts and see if any were worth editing and reposting. I found the one you read above, here's the original. I have to say it was good fun reading some of my posts, often I would laugh at how crappy they are and sometimes be like wow did I write this? this is good. This is one of the post I found good so hence the repost, let me know what you think of the post or about reposting in general.