I know that most of you don't have the time to read an entire article, so I have summarised it in one line for you.
If you read it carefully, analyse it and then apply it, it can bring fruitful results in your life.
The technique is: Provide More For Less.
Now if you decide to read it further, pay attention at every line because the article will be compelling at some point, and you will realise that you have observed the technique yourself at some point in your life, but you have missed to apply it in your life.
One common trait of people is that everyone wants to get filthy rich. Everyone wants more and more of everything. But the interesting thing about it is that most of these people want it by doing less.
There is nothing new in this that people want more things, have high expectations for things, but wants to do less. But with high expectations and less work, the result will always be the same, i.e. failure of expectations.
People will get less as they are putting lesser efforts and providing less useful services.
Where you can benefit from all this is, you can make a habit of doing more, providing more and expecting less.
Take a look at the history, people like Henry Ford, Steve Jobs what was their secret?
What was the biggest reason behind their success?
It was that they provided a lot more than people's expectations. And they accomplished more than anyone had ever expected them to be.
Consider a more general example in your life, if you are going for lunch, where would you want to go: a restaurant where you will get more quality food for less money or the one where you will get less quality food for more money.
Naturally, everyone will go to the second one.
Because it is a general trait of the people to want more and to give less.
So if you are a service provider, no matter what you do, you can provide more for less, and you will grow more than your expectations.
This aspect is valid everywhere; people want better clothes at lower prices, bigger houses for less money and anything else you can think of is similar to this trait of human nature.
Everyone wants more but by paying less. An ideal world, no?
If you are a businessman, a freelancer, an artist or even a person with an ordinary job, the secret for your exponential growth could be this and will be this.
Provide more services than anyone expected with lower prices and you will never have to worry about money or work.
A recent example that I have seen in my country is in the telecom industry.
Jio telecoms, a new company, barely two-year-old, outgrown so much on the other telecom industries that some of them have to lower their prices up to 1/10th of their initial rates.
The secret behind so much growth was that Jio provided much more services for far lower prices than anyone else was offering.
As a result, they have the most number of subscribers in the country.
And with such a volume of consumers they are making bigger profits even by charging lower monthly fees.
The idea behind the success has always been the same.
Provide more for less. Everyone will come running to your business/services.
Now let's come to steemit.
Which post would you want to upvote, comment and share?
A post with content that is useful for you and others, but has low payouts, low comments and low upvotes.
Or a post where there is an ordinary content but have hundreds of upvotes and comments.
Quality and useful content will always pull larger number of people than an ordinary content can push through.
Whether it be a relationship, a service or anything else you can think about, the fundamental principle remains same.
When you provide less and expect more, you will decay, but when you start providing more and expect less, you will always grow.