There are times where I can't help but think that a great many successes are built on little more than a person's or organization's ability to stay interested in a project in the very long term.
"Good Ideas" are no Guarantee!
Sure, it definitely matters to have a good idea to start with, but let's face it, it's very easy to grow bored with something that requires you to continue to do the same thing over and over, in order to succeed. It's particularly easy to grow bored with things when the version of success we have visualized seems to be very slow to unfold.
It doesn't matter whether it's a small business you start up, or running a virtual community, or maintaining a blockchain project, or even keeping up with your blog or community here on Hive… I'm going to suggest that we see a lot of people disappear simply because they've grown bored.
When I observe the world around me, I increasingly believe that long-term perseverance takes a certain personality type.
We might think about brilliance, inspiration and the famed "entrepreneurial spirit" during the initial phase, but few pause to consider whether or not they have a "grind it out personality."
When it comes to businesses or other projects — or even blogs — so often we find ourselves wondering why seemingly great people with great ideas fall by the wayside. With a little bit of digging, we can often ascertain that the reason isn't that it was a bad idea, but that the people behind the idea simply ran out of enthusiasm and their project fizzled out slowly.
To be perfectly honest, there are plenty of days when long-term writers wake up and have no interest in writing whatsoever. For example, my Hooman has been writing seriously since his late teens so he has been part of this gig for several cat lifetimes! That's a long time! And it's a long time to wake up every morning and essentially strive to do the same thing every day.
Of course we could argue that writers have the freedom to come up with new ideas whenever they want, and so the writing isn't really "the same everyday," and that's certainly true to some degree. Yet, we must keep in mind that regardless of whether or not the landscape around us is changing you still have to show up every day.
Showing Up Every Day... AGAIN!
And it's not in everybody's nature to show up every day!
This post was in part inspired by revisiting some of Hive's many communities, many of which started off with great fanfare and promise and even had their own high flying tokens on Hive-Engine... and yet no more than some months or maybe a year later they are bobbing around aimlessly like a cork on the ocean, with those tokens valued at fractions of a cent.
What happened?
Of course, "staying interested" is often also contingent on success level... and not everyone has the temperament to slowly "grind" their way to success, over a period of years, particularly in an industry where so much energy seems to revolve around the infamous "Wen Moon?" question.
Still, we seem to be facing a bit of "crypto winter" these days... so perhaps the best we can really do for ourselves is getting use to hunkering down, rather than "chasing Lambos!"
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