Hearts, minds and missed opportunities

I was thinking of various opportunities I have passed up over my life, and while I hold no major regrets, it would be interesting to be able to see the different life trajectories if a different choice was made.

I know that there are many possibilities that if taken would have fundamentally changed my life. What if I stayed in Australia, what if I bought that 200 odd bitcoin, what if I studied psychology instead of business, what if I hadn't decided to split from her, what if I had chosen to have surgery instead of go it alone... You know the type of things.

I wonder if In the years to come I will be asking, what if I chose not to put effort into Steem, what if I chose to sell in January 2018, what if I decided to give up. Years from now would these thoughts be regrets or would I be thankful for believing enough and sticking it out?

It is impossible to know what the future holds with any certainty, it is all based on assumptions and predictions that are coloured by our own past experience. Humans are very bad at estimating how something in the future is going to make them feel and when it comes with a high level of uncertainty, the predictions are even worse.

What would 100 dollar Steem feel like to me? How would having an account worth 3.6 million dollars affect my thinking? Would I be any different if instead of 70 cents, each of my votes was worth 280 dollars? That would make a 5 cent vote now worth about 20 dollars each, 200 a day. Would you be affected?

Money is quite meaningless to me other than as the tool it is to do things with. A tool of opportunity that can provide access to many different skills and experiences. At 100 dollar Steem, the curation value at 25% would be worth about 350,000 dollars per year. That is insane and something I cannot predict a feeling for.

I know, 100 dollar Steem is a long way off but I wonder if in 10 years from now it was achieved, how many people will be living completely changed lives and how many will be pretty much where they were 10 years earlier in 2019?

It is hard to predict how that would feel too I think but I imagine there would be quite a few people questioning and asking, what if?

What is great about Steem is that it can be earned by doing stuff we might like to do or be doing anyway. It is still open to market forces of supply and demand but, pretty much everyone has a chance to supply something that there is a demand for if they put their mind to it and get a little creative. Proof of brain.

I wonder how many opportunities we can miss before we recognize that our decision making process may not have our best interest at heart. Perhaps that is part of the trouble, letting the heart decide. The heart wants what the heart wants and it chooses what it likes, not what will get us where we want to be.

Not many hearts choose uncertainty and working extremes, but out does take heart to have the strength to face discomfort, pressure and adversity.

What would being weak of heart feel like? Do you know?

Taraz
[ a Steem original ]
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