I read your post from last night, along with some of the comments on it. I was a little busy to comment on it myself at the time, but I think one of the "problems" with that task is that people have a problem with selling themselves, and that is essentially what the task entailed. You have 100 words to sell yourself, and that is something that a lot of people are not comfortable with.
Ultimately, though, the whole experience of HIVE and making progress on it is about selling yourself. If people took you up on your task, they would have 100 words to sell themselves and their interests to you and your followers. Then, if any of those folks visited their blog, they would have a "Second date" opportunity to sell themselves to potential new followers. But that is just not something a lot of people are comfortable with.
I think the instant gratification mentality hurts a lot of people's ability to sell themselves. People look around at the bigger accounts and try to mimic how they post, expecting to get the same results. By becoming a parrot of what someone else is doing, they are not putting their best self forward, or as this post speaks to, not doing something they are good at, and then wonder why the rewards are not what they wanted.
People really need to work on selling themselves if they want to find long term success on HIVE or any other platform where they put together original content. As has been said in countless places, HIVE is not for everyone. But those who do what they love and sell themselves over the long term will carve out a worthwhile piece of the honeycomb.
For sure. But many of those same people will spend a lot of time and effort openly giving their opinions on others and try to convince the audience that their view is valid. It is still trying to make a sale and while it seems not about themselves - they are selling their own opinion.
This is the point of this post. Even if good at a narrow skill, there are clusters of other skills that are necessary to empower it. Getting comfortable is a learnable skill.
I would go further that it is somewhat disingenuous and tends to show in their presentation.
Yep.
I have that problem, but I did play along. I had a story Idea floating in my head, (they never finish floating around), How to make an autobiography in 100 words, not possible at all, so I started at the beginning, the real beginning, but it wasn't about me so much as it was the story Idea.
A sales pitch is nothing more than a story after all.
It is unfortunate in this day and age, with as long as the internet has been around, and social interaction on line have been around that people still feel they need to parrot/mimic others in the hopes of making it big, instead of being themselves.