Over the past weeks of my participation in the Hive Learners featured edition, it has been full of lessons. I have learned many valuable insights, and I remain grateful to @kingsleyy for leading me through joining this community. I have been on a very tight schedule since the beginning of this year, which has caused me to be on and off. I have missed a few prompts, even when I knew what to write about, due to time constraints.
I have had to say no and push many things aside just to pin down the lessons, achievements, and misconceptions about the blockchain as a whole. As I mentioned, I have learned so much, attained meaningful achievements, made mistakes, and misunderstood many things too. I'm grateful that learning is a continual process, opening me up to lots of free learning.
One of the lessons I have learned is the essence of perseverance. I remembered when I joined the community; the first thing I thought of was how I would cope with going to work, blogging, preparing dinner, writing lesson notes, and getting ready for the next day. However, engaging in the contest week after week, as I planned my schedule, helped me stick to it.
When I started sticking to my routine, it wasn't easy, but I was able to adapt to it. I'm the kind of person that finds multitasking challenging, but consistent blogging and responding to prompts make me flexible and open-minded.
One of the achievements I have attained on the Hive blockchain is growing my reputation and gaining recognition in communities for my contributions. Also, the reward system is also an achievement. The earnings I have accumulated on Hive have been used to achieve one of my set-out goals last year. These achievements have contributed to my growth on the platform.
Just as I often say, there is nothing with an advantage without a disadvantage. In this vein, there are no achievements without difficulties. I have made many mistakes, but I'm happy I understood better later on.
One of the mistakes I made in the past was withdrawing funds with the wrong address. Before I knew of internal withdrawal, I had been using peer-to-peer transactions. One day, I decided to ask how to withdraw directly to my Binance account, and I got the explanation. Being my first time, I copied another wallet address not knowing it wasn't the Hive address I copied.
After waiting for so long without notification and the earnings had been cleared, when I informed him, he told me that the only thing that could make it not appear in my Binance account is if I used the wrong address. That experience was a big disappointment and loss. I had to return to peer-to-peer transactions, and another mistake occurred, but thank God I was lucky.
From those costly mistakes, I learned to take things easy and ask questions where I don't understand before taking action. Being a very good person, he was able to guide me carefully through all I needed to understand about the platform, and that helped me navigate the blockchain more effectively.
Then going into misconception. I had this misconception that earning big or getting recognized is based on the number of posts published daily. As I continued on the platform, I understood better that it is not all about quantity but quality. I came to understand that making a positive impact is what is needed and not all about the number of posts without any impact.
My overall journey through the featured Edition has been spiced with lessons, growth, mistakes, and cleared misconceptions. I'm excited for the lessons learned, the achievements, overcoming my mistakes, and understanding my misconceptions.