#untalented 2nd Contest: A Snapshot Of Your Blockchain Before You Joined Steemit Vs A Snapshot Of Your Blockchain As A Steemian. No losers!!!steemCreated with Sketch.

I made this up: "The must dangerous butt in the world is actually a stick; a cigarette stick!" Then, i will tell them, "you want to stop smoking? Get on steemit!"

And to a drug user, who relishes heartily, the possibility of stopping drug addiction, i could say; "come try a new addition; get on steemit!"

And to a janitor who is broken because he feels tied by circumstance, i could say, "come be a steemian-janitor and see for yourself, that a steemian-janitor has an edge of a janitor-janitor, once the steemit effect kicks in".

Am taking things to extremity? 

Well, that wasn't the point all along! Among other things, my point all along was:


Success is different things to different people and so is success on steemit!

So, instead of trying to measuring other people's success, to rate ours by; why not we ascertain what "success" is to us instead and use that as our measurement for "success"?

Well let's proceed!

There is a ton of reasons to be on steemit and i tell you, if your measure of success on steemit is the heftiness of the wallet; that may not be "success" to the brother steemian next to you. 

Case Study:

1. Some have a 636.82 bitcoin somewhere and can be here for leisure. "Leisure" may be success, for them!

2. @samstonehill has always wanted to dent true stories about his "dad's passing" into the permanent steem blockchain, since government and media have tried to whitewash and hide the real truth and accomplishing that, may be "success" for him.

3. Some simply are here for privacy sake! Yes, there is a privacy/anonymity paradigm integrated into the model of steem and though the blockchain is bare, privacy is very core for some and very much "success", once attained.

4. Creating un-eraseable legacies with time-stamps, for generations yet unborn to perch upon and find a fixing, is "success" for me. I did created that, somewhere on the steem blockchain long ago and did similarly, with a repository of steemians' legacies more recently.

5. Creating a steem dump, so that even this dump, is cherished and dug by all the great minds and institutions of the world as they seek the piece that completes their puzzle; is "success" to me!

6. Reshaping boring internet with my pieces and love, without worrying about whether IP will affect my possibility to rank, may be "success" to me.

7. Hahaha, I used to tell a friend @lagosnewyorker when we were much younger and we would try to brainstorm the way forward:

if money distribution was as easy as a text message, then you add automation and targeted, organic or even just general traffic (myriads) to the equation, then "quality of the idea" begins to matter less, for you can get generate millions even for doing nothing. 

Now seeing these old notions conceived only in my mind, play out in full-blown action on steemit among steemians, can be "success" to me.


8. I encode my innovation ideas and encrypt them into the lines of my posts, to keep these dreams alive in dream-bits (sandbox) and to get unadulterated feedback from a community of loving reputable great minds, so as to go and reform my whitepapers and attain an eventually solid road-map. "This is success to me!"

9. If i build my own nation on steem, without jurisdiction; boarder-less, hence VISA-less. This is "success" to me.

10. To sit leaned against my parapet, in front of a large @steempi enabled hyper-tech TV, watching steem-roll; steemians, in hyper-active happy state; "this can be success to me!"

11. If i am able to patent my ideas on the steem blockchain with time-stamp and before thousands of steemian brothers, then tell me this is not a measure of success if, when google takes me to court in USA (i suppose), i am also able to have them transport thousands of steemian eye-witnesses with me all the way to USA for free. 

And, "5,000 eye-witnesses" having my back, in any supreme court, before any human judge and we will overwhelm the entire court proceeding with steemian beauty and turn it into my winning party, and google reps dancing SEKEM one-sidely to their home, while singing:

He surpassed google, he surpassed google; let him be!

 Overall 

On steemit, there is an endless variety of things to mine and its not the token that is constant! The only constant thing is the "mining with minds" aspect. So;

How about the mining that results in other things like; services, brotherhood, connection, opportunity, personal growth and development, vision, mentality, life etc 

How about the mining that has involved mining other steemians' brains, by constructively sourcing out what is in it? 

How about the mining that has involved mining yourself; you know, finding yourself out through steemit? 

How about mining favor? How about mining out cure for HIV? How about the mining that involves the art of winning the trust of fellow steemians, brotherhood etc 

Aren't these all success too?

And finally, how about "learning"? Isn't learning the ultimately earning; e.g i went from knowing nothing about crypto to knowing something about crypto. Then i got into blockchain and started to understand its underlying concepts, then into some linux and some python then etc. Look at further testimonies:

In the words @ghulammujtaba:  

 I was a slave, used to work like an animal, 18 hours a day! Resigned from my jobs in January and April 2017 and started my own business that failed. Fortunately, I found Steemit while going through a blog, checked it and immediately signed up. 

My life before Steemit was aimless, I never knew what I wanted to do, infact my father didn't allow me to do what I wanted to do. After I got my login details, I saw some posts in the trending sections that made a lot of bucks, I thought to write on same topics that can earn me a lot of money. Wrote two or three filthy posts but then I asked myself "WTF I am doing?" You don't like writing about BTC or health or crypto world, write what you like, write what you think and let the world know that you're special with no skills.

Thanks to someone inside me who gave me the idea of writing about ordinary people, started a series "Untold Stories of Unsuccessful Persons" and posted 19th episode of this series.I always wished to draw and do some programming stuff but as I mentioned above, my father put some restrictions on things I loved, so thanks to Steemit, who gave me courage to start learning these skills at the age of 30. Just drew @exyle portrait on illustrator yesterday and it's just fine. Learning web development as well and will be a full stack Wordpress Developer after 4 months. I haven't killed my dreams yet.

So don't be discouraged or measure your efforts by what others do, for we have varying paths. This is general life talk!

Already wasted 18 years doing this, will never do that again to me for sure! 

Now compare 18 years, to months on steemit, in terms of learning and ultimately, earning!

Back to the basics #untalented

In the last post, we concluded that secret to success, even on steemit, may lie in the first basic simplest solution. Many times however, we jump to the nth solution first. 

So let's go back to the basics a bit, in this next contest/movement themed "#untalented: The snapshot of my blockchain before after joining steemit.

Let's all participate again by means of full-blown steemit posts that we can share home and abroad, offline and online.

Ofcourse for this contest; "flaws allowed"! So you can afford to be playful but make sure to 'feel'. You can use personalized variations for the title but try to unveil the same message. 

One aim of #untalented is to stir steemit growth as well!

So for this contest, try to recall life before steemit, then conclude by telling us about life now as a steemian.

Through this journey, try to see if there is a merge between the snapshot of your blockchain before steemit and the steem blockchain, for success may lie in this marriage.

Contest Specifics

  1. Write a full-blown post describing the snapshot of your blockchain before you met the steem blockchain or steemit. (Tell us your vision, goals, aspirations, daily routine, your type of person etc (Flaws allowed! So relegate all reservations.)
  2. Conclude your post with a shareable meme, describe you just before steemit and defining how much better you are now, since finding steemit. (Meme should contain YOU or any recognizable avatar/illustration/selfie of you and it can be 2 seperate memes or two in one. It can even be a bizarre drawing if you want). Note: the meme should contain (www.steemit.com) 
  3. Create a meme easily here!

e.g this was the snapshot of my blockchain, just before i found the steem blockchain:

Before:

After Joining Steemit:


Final Notes

This is #untalented, so flaws allowed! In this space, relegate reservations, for there is no "average", there is no "bum".

Plus every participant wins something; no losers!

#untalented is also very much aimed at steemit growth as it does the world good to join steemit too. So i admonish all participants or non-participants to do well to share some of these entries onto other social media outlets. 

Where it is too cumbersome to share a post URL, participants should share their memes.

For a start, #untalented will span out a ton of contests/initiatives that will playfully, stealthily instill or re-instill beauty into us and assist with making us the best version of ourselves.

According to me, the best version of YOU is a gift to humanity everytime.

Then once we are all set to go, we will enter the fun part, were #untalented will dish out contests/initiatives that will help us find ourselves by attempting newer things. 

In general, #untalented is a home or a tag that can be used anytime, contests or not; e.g if you are in a state of finding yourselves by means of your posts; not to confident of your talent; not sure if your talent is talent or if you are feeling down in your self-confidence and need a push, solace, love forgiveness etc. 

Also share the best of your gifts/talents under #untalented. #untalented is a branch of @steemgigs and the steemgigs community already has close to 700 of the best steemian talents.

We will end up creating history by creating together, "the best version of human", with each human fully mined, till even our flaws are precious gems and our saddest stories; testimonial teachers!

So before we go to the fun part with #untalented, we want to fix some pertinent things, so that even the fun and merry moments can have utmost deep-lying up-building impact upon us and others. 

It is one thing to laugh to every joke and it is another thing to laugh at jokes, only after you have applied the joke to its full use. One laugh comes out bulkyly; the other one comes out in spurts, in moments, and even when it starts to fade, it lingers in tiny little cute pleasant-looking hearty "smiles".

One is processed, the other is reaction to a stimuli.

We want to get to those deep-roots, that is why we attempted to tap into it by the very first contest "Who you are".

#untalented is world reaching, thus, we hope that you try to reach out, even to non-steemians with these pieces of you & other amazing steemians, after you have been marveled by yours or their awesomeness.

Remember the twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn share button underneath each valuable entry and please let's share offline; online; home and abroad.

Your Boy Terry

@surpassinggoogle

 

My community effort is part of what i do as a steemit witness, thus, the use of the hashtag (witness category).

If you would want to vote for my witness, click here, then type in"steemgigs" in the first search box! You don't need voting power to vote for a witness! 

Or

Consider choosing @surpassinggoogle as your proxy, to help you with choosing your witness votes. To do this, visit https://steemit.com/~witnesses then type in "surpassinggoogle" in the proxy search box as seen below!  

  Join us on Steemgigs community on discord to contact me directly: https://discord.gg/wWrnSXK and join SteemGigs on Facebook!

Everyone has something to offer!

Done me by @sunnylife with love!


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And finally, how about "learning"? Isn't learning the ultimately earning; e.g i went from knowing nothing about crypto to knowing something about crypto. Then i got into blockchain and started to understand its underlying concepts, then into some linux and some python then etc. Look at further testimonies.

Learning is indeed a ultimate earning especially when you are able grow your dream skills without having to pay a dime. Steemit is helping me grow my skills and giving me a platform to showcase it alongside this is the best opportunity that can be given to anyone.ok they are mining no wahala they should mine while i also mine my writing skills and become a blogger/writer.
And as for Google i used to think i can find everything there smh i was wrong you have indeed surpassed google.
@surpassinggoogle thanks alot you are indeed a blessing to the steemit community.
#untalented

hahaha yes switie. Stay awesome. On point, pinpoint, full stop (.) Comment vote later cos steemit not working here

ha ha ha good

Thanks to @surpassinggoogle
untalented one(1) was a success
Reading through this post I see the reason behind the name surpassinggoogle
Indeed i'm sure and over certain that google will be surpassed
kudos to Bro Terry

Hahaha sure thing. We are in this together.

Nice one bro

Hahaha Jehovah's willing

He is always willing

This is a great contest
everyone is a winner
Thanks @surpassinggoogle
Going straight to prepare my entry

Thank you much! Comment vote later cos steemit not working here

To the Moon <3 heheehehehe :D

#untalented Rocks. Just posted my entry as well in 2nd contest :) So energized :p

Visit soon. I am a bit slow but i will get to it

Hello @surpassinggoogle

You have been determined by a human @surpassinggoogle to be possessing of special gem. Do join the #untalented family!

Abolishing the conditioning attached to IQ tests e.g smart, dull, bum, average and you suddenly give every human a chance to shine!

So e.g if Bill Gates did Microsoft and i can do Macro-hard, arent we both genius? Oh, we both are! Showcase your talents regardless of its nature freely with us in #untalented. Relegate all reservations as flaws are allowed and we sift even the so-called nonsense to find sense therein.

#untalented is an ongoing historical curriculum with initiatives/contests, where each participant wins something. No losers! It is also a core branch of #steemgigs, so please join the SteemGigs community on discord already containing around 700 gifted steemian family members. See this URL for more info

https://steemit.com/steemit/@surpassinggoogle/steemit-s-untalented-is-in-beta-participate-freely-because-every-participant-in-this-contest-will-win-something-no-losers

and also this URL for the discord community

https://discord.gg/CGuPyyT

If you want to vote a witness, you can vote steemgigs too. Simply go to

https://steemit.com/~witnesses

and type steemgigs into the first search box. Stay awesome!

why not be talented?

Untalented I think is because you don't have to be specially talented to participate

is that you in white Jubba :D Like arabs wear ? :) Looks super cool :D And yeah Untalented is rocking all over the steemit I think we can say its on the top of every contest held at steemit i believe that coz by seeing everyday untalented Tag i saw 100's of entries and they all are blessed by " you " and Because of you we have started writing long long :P like this one lol ! though my starting was quite short post not that much quality content but now just because of you .

I wanna Give A suggestions to every steemitian :

Just Think of your whole life you have atleast 17 years behind you there must be some story some experience in your whole life so try to write something you have experienced I am hundred percent sure if not anyone else but @surpassinggoogle will surely appreciate it ! Because of those stories those experience i person can compare his/her life and sort out many problems going on !

Thanks to every participant :) To make it " HIT " Contest
and Special Thanks to " Terry "

Actually All thanks to you Sir ! :) You have given motivation to all people like me who are writing here and on there wall all about there life time experience no one could have think that before . Before Untalented no one could write like they are doing now :)
So All thanks to you :)

Hi @surpassinggoogle wow what a post this is indeed on the #untalented 2 contest,A snapshot of your Blockchain before you joined Steemit vs A Snapshot of your Blockchain as a Steemian perhaps this is another good initiative to say so @surpassinggoogle since it will help all Steemians at large to mine with their minds and produce content that will transpire the rest of the community since Steemit is a platform full of reputable minds full of extraordinary talents,since you have taught me mr Terry that we should not measure our success with other people's achievements because how we measure success as individuals is totally different henceforth as for me i would say that success is when i have achieve my goals,dreams,ambitions,aspirations and visions in my life,lastly your words of wisdom are very true that success can be measured differently as a result of your measure of success as an individual also if yuo want to stop smoking or yuo want to be a steemian-janitor then join Steemit as you said and if Google inc arrest you mr Terry for been @surpassinggoogle and take you to court just know that i will be one of your eye witness and for sure we will overwhelm them and the outcome will be a party where by we will be singing you have surpassed Google and indeed you have my brother finally you are such a blessing on Steemit stay safe boy Terry much blessings @surpassinggoogle from @davidkaruah.

For sure i will since Steemit is a platform of greatness indeed,as well my friend Stay great @surpassinggoogle lastly thank you for your time and support blessings from @davidkaruah.

Since i got wind of this untalented thing sometime ago, I've found myself asking me questions that had never occured to me before.


I learnt of the first contest rather late and since yesterday I've been trying to comment under it with the link to my entry but for some reasons i can't fathom, I've not been able to. Here it is:


Hello sir, @surpassinggoogle, thanks for this amazing opportunity that has helped draw many out of their shells somewhat. I have seen lots of stories here. Some touchy. Some fun. Some inspiring. And i really admire those who are able to totally open up without much bother. Sorry i may not be able to tell my own story at this time. Mine is one that is long, touchy, and complicated - kind of. I'm learning a whole lot from this contest and i pray some day soon i should also be able to open up coz certainly lots of steemians would learn valuable lessons from it - especvially the challenged. Nonethelsess, this is what I'm able to tell now about me.https://steemit.com/drawing/@diana01/surpassinggoogle-untalented-contest-who-am-i-the-artist-within-me

Thanks for the privilege. May God continue using u as an and blessing t inspiratioon o steemians and inspire u more for greater heights.

DIANA


I'm really sorry to bring it here. It has refused loading under the first contest. Thought it is better to share - tho late - than keep it to myself. My apologies


Thanks for understanding.

Always relegate reservations when you visit me. Its all good. Will visit soon. The entries have many. i will give you a response in a post but that will come over time. You are lot of awesome things. Stay awesome switie

Many thanks sir. You've lifted my spirit in a way i cannot put across. I really appreciate this deep impact u are creating in people. U are indeed a huge blessing to us.
Remain awesome too

i am happy about that. i am your fan

Wow! I dunno what i am then since you've taken my place. Perhaps u can help me with the right word, sir.

Hi @diana01 I would love to read about your story as I often like to read from people who have jumped over one obstacle or the other.
Please feel free to share with us.
@bob-elr

I will share it someday, sir... tho certainly in bits. Thank u
Stay awesome

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Creating un-eraseable legacies with time-stamps, for generations yet unborn to perch upon and find a fixing, is "success" for me.

They is nothing more invaluable than planting trees that posterity will stay under it's shade, but it's a venture for those who believe that life is not about what they can get, but what they can give.

...don't be discouraged or measure your efforts by what others do, for we have varying paths. This is general life talk!

Sometimes, in retrospect, I confront my thought and try to figure out my benefits thus far on steemit, and then write ups like this always spring up as motivation.
Finding myself in a world where the society is filled with materialists, they are humans after all... Where The parameter for success lies in the abundance and untold acquisition of wealth, and what we can afford.
This has been my fear, what if am happy "making people smile" even if am not rich, Is that not my success? Of course it is.

Thanks a lot @surpassinggoogle for the inspiration. I can't put into writing the knowledge I've amassed from this post, but trust me, You have given me more confidence than I came with.

Thanks for bringing out your time for this, thank you putting smiles on our faces and thank you for the helps you have been offering to the community through your contests.

I look forward to taking part in all the contests.
Thanks.

You do have your way with words. We you get to the top, tell them i though you well. Winks.
Looking forward to your post man.

#untalented will yet explore humanity in its blistering beauty. We'll see raw flaws and mistakes we all made.

Mistakes in behavior and thought pattern.

Imagine going through your entries for the #untalented contest ten years from now.

This is what @surpassingoogle is up to. Cool, isn't it?

You are very foresighted @buterdaniel

We are already taking a peep into the future.

you have it too. Comment vote later cos steemit not working here

Yes, it will be bigger. We will reach billions when the fun part begins. steemgigs interface is in works. untalented is a branch. currently, almost any industry and dream and i know someone that can make it happen and each of this people are sifted to been seen to have the human aspect, top notch mentality, vision. there is nothing like this knowledge. e.g if you say buterdaniel, i can already mention three people like you and when you meet them you will click in everything, even down to vision. even in this comment thread, i have seen the pattern. its special. nothing like your clone. it fixes things when you meet with him. and whn your clone is brother for real. Comment vote later cos steemit not working here

You spoke with so much awesomeness; its awesome. it's touching!

Your words are soothing, it adds flesh to a skeletal mind, thereby reviving a dying spirit.

...don't be discouraged or measure your efforts by what others do, for we have varying paths. This is general life talk!

it is just like trying to put on a cloth specially made for another person, it is not going to fit. we just need to find our rhythm and the sky will be the starting point

it will fit if it is an agbada and there is too much money in it. Comment vote later cos steemit not working here

Well, we interacted at length today and I was privileged to come across some of your fantastic ideas . Some of which are

  1. A strategy To Help a person to quit smoking by inventing a cigarette that was very long and thick. You Alto shared an idea embedded in the instant post which is by advicing the person to join the Steemit blockchain. Indeed, the high of Steemit is really good stuff *(coughs) * haha
  2. Another idea you shared today was that of building an ads empire.

Then yet other ideas which I gleaned from your post of about 8 months ago which you made reference to in the current post where you suggested patenting your ideas here on the steemit forever . On the post of eight months ago, you shared two fantastic innovations :

  1. Playing the basketball game with a facecap. Haha 😂
  2. The 69 playing type of soccer where the goal posts are at the angle.

Now we have #untalented2 and I'm about jumping out of my skin. There's further opportunity you've provided for us to share our flaws and learn from them, to accept our humanity. To quit relying on books and look deep within and tell our stories just the way it is. Then this amazing comment from your post

And, "5,000 eye-witnesses" having my back, in any supreme court, before any human judge and we will overwhelm the entire court proceeding with steemian beauty and turn it into my winning party, and google reps dancing SEKEM one-sidely to their home, while singing:

He surpassed google, he surpassed google; let him be!

Well, here the deal, after we all must have discovered the true strength of our humanity, even amidst our flaws, after we must have surpassed google, then we'll all dance #sekem together.

Thank you for being awesome @surpassinggoogle

but mind you it does not necessarily has to be sekem because i have decided that it is shaku shaku that i want to dance. hahahahah.

it tried ewulesoso dance but my knees knocked. Comment vote later cos steemit not working here

@buterdaniel

Well, here the deal, after we all must have discovered the true strength of our humanity, even amidst our flaws, after we must have surpassed google, then we'll all dance #sekem together

This really sent me grinning. @surpassinggoogle knows about #sekem dance. LOL.
I cant stop imagining him dancing #sekem

Gosh my attempted comment disappeared. i have internet problems and its slowing me down. Comments is top notch. i was saying books can be involved but at least dont enter outerspace too much and lose heart and human. Stay in earth and real. i know alot about you already, alot. You got the sekem part too. Hahaha

The other time you said you were an 'illiterate ' and I got shocked at once. Then after going through your page, I quite understood you.

There are too many books, no, there are pretty good books too. But then we consume so much information that we forget about ourselves.

@surpassinggoogle is a book
@buterdaniel is a book too

And talent is an excuse not to be a book. In the telling of our story, we all are permitted to be 'illiterates ' . In fact,

it's better to be an 'illiterate' that has a deep passion for human transformation than to be seemingly 'literate' but selfish. And I feel this is the whole purpose of #untalented.

#untalented is a book of books where everybody's story counts. I could keep talking on and on but these are just fragments of my little understanding.

Thank you for being awesome @surpassinggoogle

We are the books, and the story of the #untalented is the little figments that gives us hope to literacy.

But hell, who needs the literacy, it is too bland and uninteresting. It is too restrictive and not expressive. But with steem and the untalented, we fine expression, with remorse, without a stitch. This is the life we all need.

How you take know self?
The mental aspect (knowledge) of the steemit blockchain is fixes the scar in us and the kudi side saves nine.

#untalented is a book of books where everybody's story counts*
This is insightful @buterdaniel

Yes, i know but just pause. I grasp. i wrote my own lengthy comment and thought it posted. Steemit appears to be having issues. You grasp cos you are in a particular place too. Overall, it is to grasp, if you tie some human even some broken into it.

IT IS HAPPENING TO ME TOO. my comments are disappearing

Haha! I've always loved the sekem dance too

The first comment I typed disappeared too but once you have an understanding you can put it however you wish, it's not about the delivery it's the message.

But I think my first comment was pretty cooler than this one but I'm sure this one passed my message well too.

#untalented

Thanks @surpassinggoogle for bringing it up again..I've been waiting for this second episode like sitting on the bench while waiting for the train. Finally its here, this is so inspiring and I can't wait to drop my entry..once again thanks for this opportunity..

Your post reminds me of a Nigerian versatile music producer called young John who has a signature intro, "Young John the wicked producer!"
I feel like that when I'm reading your post, you do a "wicked" production of hit posts, one after another. One would think you've outdone yourself in the last post only to hear a "beat" that is entirely "danceable" flow through your keyboards to the audience.
This is an incredible gift, and I think you made a point in the definition of success, oftentimes people only use one erroneous yardstick: the number of SBD in a wallet balance. That is erroneous as you already mentioned that there are various definitions of success.
You made mention of @samstonehill, isn't he the one that unfortunately got his account hacked via phishing?
Keep producing "wicked posts." Keep steeming.
Regards,
@greenrun... still running

Edit: Happy to see he got the account back ☺️

Yep that's him. DJ khaled thanks. You tap into those places and spoke. Thank yo bro

You the best, in my best voice impression of DJ Khaled :)

True lies

Record let's hear

With my eyes wide shut I pick my invisible pen to write this lyrics to this song that only people that knows could hear :)

I woke up 👆 to see this post. More than just a breakfast. I am already thinking of something Terry . #untalented on new dimension 🤗

Yes but don't eat all day. Stay bellyfull

I will obey the last command. Stay bellyfull