It helped me navigate the feeling of sadness when my posts went unnoticed.
That feeling is, I think, a very broadly shared feeling on the platform. The problem here is that posts have only 24h to gain attention and rewards. Success and failure are a 24h thing. The whole thing is designed to create an intense short term focus. With a change of focus toward longer term, people would not feel that sense of frustration as they would receive votes and rewards over time and would keep hope that their less popular content would someday receive attention when the time is right.
I myself quit making well researched and carefully written posts due to this short term focus, and the feeling it creates. I hate seeking attention, and there is no other way to get noticed than acting as a huge attention whore for 24h after posting, which includes spamming links in steemit.chat, spamming whales, spamming comments, upvoting oneself etc. which is just not at all my style.
This lead me to change my perspective on what Steem really is. I don't think Steem in its current form is really much of a social network or community forum now. Steem is more a sort of an ongoing reality TV casting for content writers where successful candidates get to become part of the jury. Exactly like in the show business, selected candidates aren't the most thoughtful or interesting ones, but the ones with the highest potential for drawing attention and promoting the platform.