Quote from: TBboys on October 26, 2018, 02:34:36 PM

Congrats！
But, this is not the finish line, you can actually go further.
Of course, this is the finish line for most people.
You should summarize your experience of how to cross the “finish” line, which is very helpful for people who are still far away from finish line.

Quote from: iasenko on October 26, 2018, 12:37:32 PM

Congrats!
Everyone can rank up, but if you wrongly prioritize your goals, it may never happen.
People putting their priorities in the following order fail.
1. Get Merit
2. Rank up
3. Get more money.
4. Go to 1.

The right priorities are :

1. Be curious
2. Start reading
3. Learn
4. Be part of the community
5. Do something to help the others

The result will be exactly what the the guys from the first list are aiming for.

Well said!
What do we want? Merit, rank up, money? YES!
How do we get them? Begging, deceiving, trading? NO!
What should we do? Learning.

But learning is a very difficult thing for many people, especially the knowledge about crypto, to be honest, it's really difficult.
So we need to figure out two questions are “learn what, how to learn ”.
About “learn what”，I think we should learn the rules, learn the knowledge, learn everything we interested in.
About “how to learn”, I think we should be more reading, more asking, more debating.
Only by figuring out these questions can we really learn what we want and get what we want.

One of the key things I’ve learnt in my life about the subject of computer science (probably something bitcoin relates to the most) is that there’s always a subject that interests people and there always a way to relate it to bitcoin. It’s one of thenmost important things to do is to learn about the currency and pick a section that interests you the most. I go on quite a few sections but I have the tech support, meta and alternative clients boards on my watch.ist and I check fairly regularly to see if something of interest comes up at any point and to see if I can contribute in a constructive way.

The goal is not to earn merits, the goal is to be here and be an active part of the community as said above, and only then will you be able to reach your merit potential.