That´s a brilliant idea! Upped and resteemed.
I recently had dinner with some friends where I was enthusing about my steemit experience almost all the time. So that´s an easy task, haha :)
If I had to explain my Steemania (from a blogger´s perspective which is mine) I´d probably do it like this:
Steemit is a place that encourages you to be the very best version of yourself. Since your input (content) is evaluated, critized or celebrated, rewarded or downvoted right away, you get a direct feedback which enables you to constantly improve yourself. Everybody has the same opportunities, so if you are really willing to succeed there are ways to do so. Creativity, humor, honesty, passion, dedication, love for detail and a certain craziness are especially honored by the community. Steemit is a game area where you can become whatever you wanna be: a writer, journalist, analyst, poet, philosopher, artist - or everything at the same time. The platform is a huge experimental content lab where one inspires the other, a single idea becomes a multiply discussed issue and amazing knowledge is created. Steemit creates value, but not only from a financial perspective...
That was a lot of text. And yes, I am a Steemaniac without any doubt! :))
Thanks for sharing your Steemania! I was actually quite inspired by your steem is for real post, so perhaps that was what was going through my mind as I wrote that ;)
I love this pair! "a place that encourages you to be the very best version of yourself", and "if you are really willing to succeed there are ways to do so" IF you are willing to succeed... that's potent... that's a hidden challenge of enormous proportions. Even in someone isn't listening carefully, some part of them is... and now they're going through the day wondering "Am I willing to succeed?" That's powerful, thanks.
"Steemit is a game area where you can become whatever you wanna be" :) The art of becoming what you dare! That's so true. Mmmmm... thanks for sharing your insights, this is great!
Thank YOU for giving me the platform to share these thoughts :-)
The post / situation you mentioned ('steem is for real') was exactly the dinner I was referring to, now. I invited my friends paying the bill with the money I earned on steemit. At latest that was the moment when they really believed me, haha