We all wish life was easier, but it's not so we've got to make do with what we have.
The degree you want, the career you want, and the business you dream to have won't come easy. I'm of the notion that life doesn't want you to succeed. If you run away from every obstacle then you will never achieve your goal.
To achieve ones goal you should be able to face your fear, because fear is the most deadly thing that makes a man not to succeed in life. If you can scale through fear you are good to go.
I keep seeing forum members make complaints about not getting merits and all. It will be very hypocritical of me to say we shouldn't care about merit and ranking up, but your desire to rank up should lead you in the right direction.
The goal is to learn and grow, then make meaningful contributions that can grow other forum members. It's not going to be easy, and it will take time, but it will be worth it in the end.
In this aspect, it is always common amongs us when we join forum we start thinking of meeting up like other higher ranked members but that isn't easy because no good thing come so easy, but the more we study what dey do and try to contribute meaningfuly we start growing. Success is Achieved by hardwork, consistency, resilience and meaningful conversation and contribution.
This doesn't only apply to the forum but to every aspect of life.
Take a business for example.
The goal of a business is to make a profit but you can't make a profit if certain things are not done right. If you just pursue profit without thinking about other factors, your business will fail.
Yes profit is the motive of every business man or woman. But when you focus only on profit without outlining the risk assessment or analysis that would help you, you'll definitely fall. Like (1) lack of business orientation (2) lack of feasibility study (3) mismanagement of funds and taking everything common, Can lead to business collapse.
If your product/service is top-notch, your marketing, packaging, and distribution are done right along with other factors, you will make a profit.
The same thing applies to every aspect of life. A degree, career, or anything at all.
Packaging of product is another business criteria which enhance more sales and productivity. Like when others are selling offline you can be selling both online and offline. When they sell the product without label you add labels to your product with your phone number and name Crest on it. It will give people more confident of buying your product.
If your first encounter with crypto was a scam altcoin, it doesn't mean you should wash your hand off of crypto. If you're still interested in it, learn from that bad situation and gain more experience from it.
Yeah bad experience is not a genuine reason to quit. Winners don quite. Bad experience are good teachers that shovels you to greater hight. There is a saying that " Downfall of a man is not the end of his life but when he refused to stand it becomes a failure" so bad experience on cryto shouldn't be an excuse because more opportunities are ahead.
If you previously made an investment in Bitcoin and you lost, it doesn't mean you should give up on Bitcoin; learn from it and re-evaluate your decision.
Sure so far so good bitcoin still remains a legit and a trusted investment platform to invest in your future. We all have our different experiences and that wouldn't make us not to continue. Morover before you succeed in life you must encounter hoddles that will multivate you to be careful and assemble yourself.
So don't think Bitcoin and Bitcointalk are any different from life.
You may look at a forum member with legendary rank and you want to achieve that, it's good that that motivates you, but you have to know that they didn't just achieve that overnight. They learned, grew, improved themselves, and improved others to get to that level.
Whatever you want, work hard and smart for it because it won't be handed to you on a platter.
Success is Achieved by hardwork and not a Plata of gold