The Lessons, Achievements, Mistakes and Misconceptions so far!

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As we go forward in life, we meet with various lessons that keep us on track and try not to repeat them as we try much harder to avoid whatsoever mistakes that may occur in the future. Learning continues till we die. Still in continuation with my previous post celebrating Hive Learners' 100th week of consistent weekly editions, it is a wonderful thing to have met the community, learnt and mingled with amazing members who have kept the journey beautiful and interesting. This community is one of those reasons I am always active on the blockchain because of the dedication of the team and every member who are always publishing unique content with which to learn from.

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Along the way, there were lessons I have learnt on the blockchain and it has been a blissful journey ever since then. One of the lessons I learnt was that every member has a story to tell and we must/should learn from them. Some of their posts are about their personal lives for us to hold onto something while seeing life in their way. I discovered that our views of life are diverse and that the way we see the number 6, others see it as the number 9 depending on how we are viewing life from. Every member comes from a different background and we are here for a different purpose. A great lesson was never to judge the other person or feel we are better off than the other. We all have our fair share of life and it is important to respect our opinions on a matter.

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We may be writing on the same topic just as how the Hive Learners gives us the same edition to write on but with different thoughts, views, perspectives and directions. I learnt never to feel that my opinion is always right without giving room for another to express themselves as life has been for them. Hive blockchain brought everyone together from different countries and with different backgrounds, and that is something that makes the platform unique. Reading from others has given me the attitude to be patient and understand how they express themselves and how things have been for them which is different from mine. Understanding that we are all different makes me more subjective to learning continuously.

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One lesson was how to be creative in what I do. It is not all about making learning static for you, especially on a blockchain like this because there are people who do not give this blockchain the chance to be trained and nurtured through it. I have read how users were able to learn and improve which they are benefiting outside the blockchain. Understanding that as we learn, we grow and not being limited here alone but to put into practice in the offline world. I have been able to learn things from other people that have transcended into my life and I am grateful for today.

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Another lesson was to keep learning and improving daily. HL taught me how to use Canva to design images when I saw other members who got used to creating designs as thumbnails on their posts, which always look so attractive and unique. I adopted the method, and it has been an amazing journey learning how to use Canva and becoming good.

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There are lots of achievements I have made as a Hivian and a real member of the Hive Learners community. I will never stop appreciating the opportunity we have been presented here because of a lot of things I have achieved on the chain. One of the achievements, which to me is something worthwhile is being known as an active engager in the HL community specifically. The day I heard this, it was seen as an achievement. My goal is never to do my thing alone here but to make sure I am being intentional about growing and making friends and through that, I was determined, focused and driven to carry out my daily activity of staying active while contributing my part in the ecosystem.

Another achievement is being mentioned many times on Hive Learners weekly edition topics when choosing the featured content and also as honourable mentions. I feel like a true and verified member of this community whenever my name is mentioned a lot of times and I realise whatever we do here doesn't go unnoticed as some are always watching what you do.

There are lots of achievements on the blockchain that I am forever grateful for through others' support and encouragement.

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There is no way one wouldn't make mistakes and find things so difficult to do here. Even though I have tried to rack my brain to remember what mistake (s) I have made on Hive so far. One of them I could remember was posting in the wrong community due to my impatient and wanting to hit the publish button as soon as possible. I wrote one of the HL topics that day, I already posted before I saw the mistake I made. I was pained because it felt like something I shouldn't have committed at all, but humans make mistakes, right? When we make mistakes, we learn from them and ensure not to repeat such anymore. It was then I learnt about crossposting to the main community which I did that day but I was unhappy about it.

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Just like I said in my previous post, some topics were so hard and easy to write on. My difficulty was not being able to relate to some of the topics and finding most of them hard to write on. We cannot always do everything but to go for the ones we can relate with, understand and share our knowledge on. I mostly find it difficult to engage in posts that I couldn't relate well to the topics written by authors. Sometimes, when I want to be active in a particular community but when I cannot comprehend some topics there, I just log out as that alone would make me discouraged not to stay online until I am settled. But now? I can stay online and be active as there are different communities one can be in to read interesting and fun topics without being discouraged or demotivated.

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To finalise my post, I would talk about the misconception I had of Hive. It was the false belief that Hive is like every other platform that will crash soon. I didn't know what decentralization meant then and as a newbie, that was what I thought until I was proven wrong. I saw how Hive is focused on communities having strong projects on Hive and making it stronger day by day. My perspective on that misconception changed and I was able to see what Hive is capable of doing in the future because getting to know about the decentralization and digital identity of every user, reassures me that this blockchain is here to stay and that, we must also help to keep it progressing each day through our constant involvement in its purpose.