Steemit is a platform where you meet new people, with different views and ideas, and you get rewarded for everything educational post or informative post by other steemians. You reinforce your knowledge by specifically looking for what you want to learn, thank God, steemit site is translated to many languages, where you can automatically post and it will display to 
Steemit has given us the opportunity to improve on our writing skills, both in the way we improve ourselves.
If you want to rise on steemit, build your own reputation first, by posting interesting articles that will attract other steemians, don't be selfish, upvote, comment and resteem other people's posts. The more you do this, the more you learn and the more you improve.