Streams of silver, rivers of gold and proof of brain

"Where do you intend to be in five years from now?"

This is not an interview, it is a prompt to think. It is a common interview question though and generally people concoct some answer that they assume the interviewer is looking for. I wonder if anyone here tells the truth;

"I intend to be a cryptocurrency millionaire"

How about you?

Up until that time though I don't intend to sit around twiddling my thumbs or waiting for the institutional investment firms to start buying in though, I have to earn. I was talking about proof of brain a little today but I think about it quite a lot. I haven't proved myself overly brainy both her or in the real world yet, that is what it should be doing.

You want to prove your brain on Steem? Start finding ways to connect Steem to the real world interactions and needs we have and make Steem a fundamental part of our on and offline experience. That would prove one has a brain wouldn't it.

I have mentioned in comments a few times in the last few days about this also. While people seem to think that the invested are passively being lazy, they tend to forget that in order to invest, one has to have money to do so. If you haven't noticed over the last few months especially, the people who are investing in to this blockchain aren't millionaire playboys with yachts, it is everyday working class people who have various degrees of economic suffering to contend with. Proof of brain in my opinion as they have been able to create a world where they have enough excess to invest.

Confining the proof to what happens on Steem alone is artificially limiting the ecosystem with a non-existent border. While Steem does have its own ecosystem, it is actually a microcosm of the larger world and, within the world at large. This is why it is so difficult for governance and agreement because, we are not contained.

Some people believe in this thing called work/ life balance and try to create a border between. It is bullshit - Work is part of life. Work and life are linked, each encroaches on the other and are intimately connected. You might think that you have been able to separate the two but, that is not the case at all as afterall, why do you go to work? The answer isn't likely, to work 100% for the company. People work because of personal needs and even f it isn¨t for money, there are other personal things they get out of it, camaraderie, recognition, a sense of purpose. Those things aren't needed to do the actual job as, a robot needs none of it, they are human needs.

I talk a fair bit about investment into Steem in various ways and people nearly always think it is about the money - Money is just a tool. Steem is just a tool. Silver and Gold are just tools. Sure silver and gold have practical apllication purposes too but, most do not collect it for those purposes. What they want is the utility of it and that is the trait to swap it for the things that we want and need.

While you may want a Lambo, I do not. What drives you is not what drives me to do the things I do, even if our actions are the same. This is the freedom of preference and that preference has very little to do with Steem proof of brain and a lot to do with personal views of the real world in which we live. WE each have to live our own lives though and while you might have more obstacles than me, I have obstacles you may never have to negotiate yourself. The comparison at the level of challenge we face is nonsense, just excuses.

We each have identical and equal chance in every moment to be our best, and we each have identical and equal chance to be learn and improve for the next moment. While our skills, available resources and our results can vary wildly, we are all equal in the possibility to take responsibility for our lives, even if we are terrible at the way we do so. If you are not willing to take responsibility for your own experience, *why should anyone help you? Are you a child? No? Do you want to be treated like one? No? Okay, start acting like a mature adult then.

"Where do you intend to be in five years from now?"

Work it the fuck out and then work out what you need to know and what changes you need to make in order to get there. Then, take the responsibility and start. In five years from now I may not be where I intended to be but, I won't be complaining as a victim of life. Our life is our own is it not? Start owning it.

Got a brain? Prove it.

Taraz
[ a Steem original ]