#STEEMGIGS: (TIL(Today I Learned)) — Don't hoard knowledge

Today, the quest for recognition and respect has caused may people to do unthinkable things. Many people want to be the boss. They desire that everyone will stand when their names are mentioned. To achieve this, such persons try to hoard the little thing they've known.

Scenarios are:

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A person has been into a profitable business, instead of mentoring a younger person in the business line, he seeks to do all alone so as to remain the "king-kong".

A father has a skilling, he s not conscious of bringing in his son to the scene, soon, he gets old and dies, and his empire gets wasted because no one learnt the modes-operands of the outfit.

A company employ an expert, instead of creating a platform for training of other staff, they allow a monopoly on one, someday when ergo strikes, the work tends to suffer.

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No one has ever been the origin of knowledge. No one holds the monopoly of words. This is why no presentation with letters and words can be 100% plagiarism free. We all learnt a word or two from another author's work.

Sadly, today, we have people who have learnt a very little from others, yet, they became so mean, illiberal, ungenerous and so frugal with the little they knew. They are experts in hoarding knowledge. They want to hold monopoly so they would be esteemed.

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What I Learnt Today

During my morning devotion today #dailyguide 30th April, 2018 posted by @scripture-union, Jesus Christ was seen rebuking the Pharisees for hoarding knowledge. In his words in Luke 11: 52, he said:

Woe to you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering.

Yes, when you try to work alone, there are limitations to the exploitation of the rich value of that resource you tend to hold monopoly of. This is because, we have different exposures to life, different challenges and environment and this makes us think differently.

In a situation other people are given opportunity to contribute to your work, there will be spices of diversity which could spark innovation.

You can work better as a team.

You can earn better as a team.

You can market your product and services as a team.

Do you ever wonder why steemit succeeds the ways it does? Users are brought together to work as a team and community. Every user has been given the key to influence and impact in the platform and this is the reason for the unprecedented growth in the system.

PS: I charge you therefore this morning to ensure that you teach that young person how to learn your skilling. Impact a life by transferring your life, what you know so the web of growth can continue.

Thanks to @surpassing who did not hoard his knowledge. He opened up the ideas of @steemgigs and @steem-untalented. Today he is glad that many steemit users are taking advantage of the system and his (@surpassinggoogle) worth is increasing.

If you must grow, you must empower others.

Like I said in my Steemit workaholic post 1 and Steemit workaholic post 2:

Go out of your convenience and be a blessing to someone by helping that less-privileged person around you to have access to a skill. You may not spend so much money, yet, the results may outlive generations. Help to empower someone in your locality and posterity will not forget you.

THIS WEEK, I WILL BE OFFERING TUTORIALS ON THE VALUES OF STEEMIT

This tutorial will be dedicated to teach newbies on the steemit platform what steemit stand for. The values that must be imbibed by every user of the platform. The tutorial will be smartly weaved with my success/failure stories to help the readers learn well. I hope the tutorials will spark greatness in all readers. You can see other helpful posts here which I have used personally to my benefit to grow on this platform:

5 SBD DAILY FOR JUST 3 HOURS: New steemians MUST grow

EARN 3 SBDs DAILY WITH GOOD COMMENTS

10 RULES OF THUMB FOR NEW STEEMIANS - Part 1

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YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO OFFER THAT ANOTHER PERSON CAN BENEFIT FROM.

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