People don't take Hive seriously because they lack guidance, motivation and ideas.
Just imagine a newbie that thought he or she has something to offer before joining hive and after his or her introduction post and other two post got a huge support from the platform they will tend to try again and again but if after their third post and they got little or nothing they tend to loss interest in it.
Also if that same thing happen to someone who has someone to motivate him or her they will tend to look it from the aspect that nothing good comes easy, so mentorship like you mentioned is key to helping people strive on hive.
But for me the main reason I see why people don't take Hive seriously is because of their mindset towards hive. As you have rightly stated some of the minds of users as to why they don't take Hive seriously.
The only remedy to this kind of problem lies in their hands, we can tell people about hive but we can't tell how far they will go all we can do is to encourage the ones that we are close to.
Another reason I see why people lose interest in Hive is because they have this mind of always succeeding in whatever they do so when they lose, they tend to loose interest in it. It's not bad to love winning but always know that if you've never lost before you won't know the value of winning.
This is a really great write-up, I'm happy for the newbies initiative you initiated, you won't really regret onboarding people on hive because you've really helped a lot of persons here on Hive and fortunately for me I'm part of them. Thank you so much dear🥰🥰.
Hmm.. if you never lost, you would not appreciate the value of winning..
That's so true. But the thing is people should understand that the beginning of a skill is always not easy, and always a gradual learning process.
So when entering into a new thing, cancel the idea of everything going well at that instance and put your mind to face for the worst.
The main reason why people don't take hive seriously is the get rich quick scheme thinking or the fact that they have a lot of options outside hive.