The best way to build a team of people who are highly committed to getting things done and hitting goals isn't by screaming and telling them to show their commitment to the cause. You can actually give that a shot and see how that works out for you. But, I know from experience that an approach like that isn't a good long-term strategy to adopt.
Sometimes, people tend to underestimate the importance of commitment in leadership positions. Do you think you can be part of a project and do well just because you are giving 100% commitment to that project? Well, if the owner of the project or founder isn't committed to that particular project, it generally affects the work you are doing and in some cases, that can be enough to make you lose interest in the project.
Just recently, I talked about a time when I was involved with the drama that goes on in the political playground. At some point, I had to step out of that because the whole project was faced with misdirection from the leader of the Political Party. The team also lost focus and it became obvious that the party was no longer committed to the initial cause. Everyone was trying to fill his pocket. I couldn't have that so, I walked.
At some point in my Web3 adventure, I got into a Web3 community that runs educative spaces on X. The idea of the space was to create more awareness about Cryptocurrency and Web3 as a whole. They also have a community on telegram, but I've never been a big fan of telegram. So, I didn't play around there.
After spending a little time in the space, I fell in love with the idea behind the community. It was like a free learning environment and there was always something to learn each time they held a space. I started going off mute during the space to also share info about things that I'm knowledgeable about.
The host of the space fancied the thoughts I was sharing and the delivery of my message. He shot me a DM and offered me to join his team. I had time to spare and I enjoyed the direction we were heading with the project. I got into the team and I know I attracted some people to the space too.
I'm always very committed when I'm involved with projects, but as the space grew bigger, I started to see things that were not inspiring.
It started with the sort of projects that were allowed to shill things in the space. You know how things are in Crypto. Folks will start anything and shill it just to rug everyone afterward. The owner of the space received some fees without vetting the projects and gave them an audience to shill their project in the space we run.
You may think something like that is "just business", but I didn't see it that way especially when those coming up to shill things are shilling projects that are obvious rugpulls. I didn't let them have a smooth shilling experience though. That's usually when my stubbornness shows up because I often unmuted to grill them with questions about their project.
The intention was to get as much information from them as possible so anyone listening would know what he/she is getting into if the person decides to get into those hyped projects. Well, the shillers were not very receptive to the questions.
The host of the show continued to give similar projects a platform to shill their stuff. He needed the money he was charging them. For me, I stepped back from playing the devil's advocate. At the moment, even when I get notified that they have a space, I ignore the notification and channel my attention to other stuff.
Thanks For Not Missing Any Full-stop Or Comma.
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