Steemit is a great project. The first thing you are referring to is this: you have to create connections in this community in order to grow, "give to receive" is the great saying. You will always find a group of people who share your same tastes and hobbies, so creating a friendship or a fellowship is easy. And so everything becomes easier, we learn, then we try again and get better results, everything here is a stage. Here we all want to have the best reputation and the best SP.