Not to undermine excellent academic performance, I have been thinking about a friend of mine who did not take his academics seriously compared to other classmates who had put everything they had into academic excellence. This friend of mine seems to be doing more fairly in life than the latter, and it baffles me seriously.
I know that in the long run, excellent academic performance has a great potential to pay but truth is, it is just a potential with a probability attached to it. This friend of mine is earning more than 2x of my net worth on Hive monthly, and yet we graduated on the same day and also from the same school.
I went into thinking when I saw this tweet below, and I started telling myself: I am really playing with my life.
I am in close contact with this friend of mine who is a developer in a crypto or blockchain related company. And he has been giving me advice that is seemingly difficult. To him, he says that my focus on Hive is one of the reason why I have not developed in my skills. In his words:
I am too dependent on the peanuts I earn from Hive,
why do I need to go after bread when I can own the bread factory.
Sincerely, I told him it is not as easy as he says it to be. I have nothing to fall on if I stop being active on Hive. Though I have reduced my activity on posting a lot lately and am trying to spend more time on myself and skills.
If I were to be like this friend of mine, there is no doubt I would invest greatly back into Hive, which is absolutely my plan in the long run. I have tried telling my friend to do the same, but he has not chosen to take to my hearing on that matter yet. But I atleast managed to make him create an account on Hive and to also write a post on Hive. He also once managed to participate in spknetwork testprint.
I think he is probably not motivated because he feels he is better off than me and does not see how much it would benefit him as compared to me, that has been on Hive for 6 years. That may not also be so, but that is what I think.
I would neither not stop trying to convince him to at least be investing in Hive as a curator nor buy HBD and keep it in savings to the very least, and not stop working on myself, so I can show him what he is missing out on. and also build my stake on Hive.
I have come to believe that the best way to grow on Hive is not literally being on Hive most of the time, but to grow personally. Make those bucks in real life and invest it in Hive. I do not believe it is possible for someone who comes from a poor, middle-class background, with 100% dependence on Hive to be able to become a whale from just being active here on Hive or being focused alone on content creation. If you think otherwise, let me know.