Maybe we haven't discovered the real potential of Steem yet...

There are some days when I'm up and others down, probably like everybody else. On the days that I'm down, I tend to reflect on what I'm doing and why I'm doing it. In a way it's on these down days that I progress on my path, because I believe that it's good to question what you are doing from time to time.

When I feel bad, I tend to think a lot...

These last days were rather down days and I was thinking a lot. I can't get rid of the feeling that in our world people are looking for attention everywhere, in real life and also on the internet. The problem is that there are actually very few people listening or paying attention...

On the Steem blockchain, I see so many people writing one post after the other in the expectation that maybe there will be a lost soul that finds his path to their post to give them an upvote or even better a comment.

I had then to ask myself, why don't I read more posts of other people and give them a comment? I love to listen to others. Even in real life, in a conversation I would bombard people with questions, sometimes making them uncomfortable. I'm by nature very curious. What I realized is that many posts on Steem don't interest me because they lack the personal touch. I like to read about what people feel, how they go through their life, what experiences they have made. Instead there are tons of posts about how things work. I can only speak for myself of course but I'm not so interested in stuff that I can look up on google. I want to learn about the people and their experiences.

The second question I asked myself was why, in spite of that, I liked to spend so much time on Steem? You can believe me that when I ask myself such questions, I try to go quite in dept to find an answer. Here is what I found out:

Why do I like Steem so much?

Thanks to the workings of the blockchain, on Steem we have something that I would call interested collaboration. If a person likes what I write, I will profit from her upvote. At the same time this person will profit from the curation reward and also from the feeling that she did something positive for me. We both win, sometimes I believe that the person who gives a vote or comment profits emotionally speaking even more than the one who received it.

From the interaction between me and the person above, we have a double profit. The interaction has added value to both of us.

Steem is a tool to encourage collaboration

What happens when several people start to put their heads together on Steem? We have outcomes like @project.hope that has developed into one of the biggest communities on Hive/Steem and that gives value to many people. Then there are curation projects like @thisisawesome which curates posts on the ctptalk.com platform. These are just two examples that I'm familiar with.

What I want to say is that when several people come together on Steem, it's possible to build something that brings value not only to these people but to everybody that is in their surroundings. I also realized that such projects draw other people towards them. Everybody wants to be part of something. Remember, we want attention and we are very happy if we find some in a community.

Maybe we haven't discovered the full potential of Steem yet

If we look at the history of steem/hive, it's fair to say that we are all part of a big social experiment and maybe we haven't yet discovered the real potential of this experiment.
When a couple of people, just by working together can manage to give value to a whole community, why don't we develop this aspect of Steem even more?

Some say that when two people put their ideas together, there will be three ideas at the end of the process. What if there are ten or twenty people putting their ideas together? What will be the output? What if a whole community of talented people work together?

Could Steem become a platform where people work together do build the ideas of tomorrow?

Would you like to work together with others here?

I would love to read your comment!

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