Greetings

Today, I want to talk about another Listnerds keyword besides "Respect": honesty. What I mean by honesty is being genuine while creating content for Listnerds. This happens in multilevel.

Honesty With Yourself

This goes to treating the content you produce as an actual goal meant to be an extension of you and not just a word dump aimed to meet the minimum words limit.

It also goes to the subject matter. Always choose a topic you are genuinely interested in rather than seeing what's "hot". It's okay if you arrive late to a trend or do not arrive at all. What is not okay is forcing yourself to talk about something you're not interested in or know what you need to know about it.

I have talked to people who seem to have dropped a type of content they genuinely love doing just because it "looks" like they're "milking it". I would say it's the contrary, you don't need to post about everything just to look like you know everything. It's okay not to be the go-to person for everything.

People also love specialists. People who have mastered one subject so well that they could answer any question when it comes to that subject. What's the point of talking about something you don't know anything about just because it's "new" and "exciting"?

You will end up with a not-so-satisfying post followed by incomplete comments because you have no clue what you're talking about.

Honest with yourself also means admitting your shortcomings.

It is the first step toward improving. Admitting to not knowing certain things could lead to two good things.

• Realizing that you're interested in the subject

• Coming face to face with the fact that you're simply not interested.

Realizing that you're interested in the subject

That is how most posts start being developed, at least for me. I almost never posted in Leo Finance ever since I learned about it. And recently I wrote a post there. It all started because I decided to search for rare allergies which ended up with me learning about Aquagenic Urticaria (allergy to water). I was more interested and ended up concluding that the reason that allergy isn't fought is economical. It was a fun trip in both terms of research and writing.

Coming face to face with the fact that you're simply not interested.

To me, that is all the games on Hive. I am simply not interested in pursuing that. I do see the value in it, and I do celebrate with people doing well in them. But, I am simply not planning on pursuing that.

I originally started by lying to myself by saying I don't have time. Knowing it's a lame excuse I actually took some time to learn about different games. The problem is that I was forcing that. I wasn't enjoying learning about any of the games, at all.

By simply admitting how I actually felt freed many hours a week that I spend getting through something that my heart wasn't in.

By being honest and coming to terms with what you like and don't like your brain becomes much clearer when it comes to creating content. And to me, that's the greatest favor you could do to yourself as a content creator.