Anything that has to do with money needs to come with experience. One of the hardest things in life is teaching people how to handle money. I've seen a lot of personal finance posts on hive and they're more like set of rules and principles only meant to be written content but never applicable to real life.
This isn't to say the writers aren't good creators, the problem is just that they're underestimating personal finance as a niche, they see it more like a means to earn money for themselves, rather than a niche that's meant to truly educate, inform and most importantly entertain their audience. Now, this isn't just selfless, it creates a sequence of communication.
A Niche, Money, Or A Story?
What's The Impact?
The reason why it's called personal finance is that it deals with using one's true personal finance stories to impact vital finance knowledge that deals with the human experience. Being such an author requires finesse, and sometimes people don't grow their ability to teach their audience and this is because it's majorly a means to earn for them and nothing else.
When I was younger, I learned the ability to teach by attaching images and similar case scenarios to my case study which created an understandable lesson behind everything I taught. Being younger, I realized that everyone in life is a teacher and what differentiates us isn't age, money, or degree, it's theoretical and practical knowledge as well as a wide range of experience that acts as a cache when we want to impact any knowledge into anyone.
Knowledge & Interpretation: A Way To Content?
Now knowledge has a way of being interpreted differently especially if it isn't colorful. One of the reasons why people would rather watch YouTube videos rather than read a book of that form is because watching a video would relatable to a picturesque feeling would impact knowledge rather differently.
How come?
One of the lessons I learned when I was a teacher is that, no matter how knowledgeable you are, you might be a poor teacher and never impact anyone, this means that transferring knowledge from one person to another person is the main job of a teacher and not the knowledge within them, because what's the essence of being tasked with transferring knowledge and you can only boast of what you know but not what others have been able to know through you?
Learning As A Translational Process
I wasn't the best of teachers, but as a 17-year-old, I taught people who were already in their 30s, I gave them knowledge, based on money experiences, teaching them the consequences or rewards that come with making choices, and funny enough, these people related to me when they had important decisions to make. It was a symbiotic process because I got to learn from them and this is the essence of knowledge.
No matter who the impacter is, if knowledge isn't flowing in a ventilational form, then the process of learning is stunted, this means that no matter who is teaching, everyone has to be directly or indirectly learning. Unless you can create vivid or picturesque imaginations in firstly an enjoyable way, then it's difficult to write personal finance.
Why Your "Niching" Style Is Wack
A lot of writers write as if they're teaching economics. They talk about issues as if they were principles rather than talking about the grey areas that are not straightforward. For example, I've seen people write about how to save on hive and it is absolutely colorless, drab, and mundane, they concentrate on how you should successfully become a good saver, but hardly appeal to the human experience because they're not using imaginative tools to create an experience that will better impact knowledge.
We have to understand that when we're not learning from teaching, it's difficult to become a better teacher or a better creator. This is because the world is changing, and the learning culture has to change too. One is the most substantial things to learn in life is money, sometimes, if we choose to educate people about money, we must have to colorful and clinical in doing so.
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