<p>Lately, I’ve been catching myself comparing my life to people who are 20, 25, even 30.</p><p>People who already have jobs, glowing skin, big platforms, tech money, soft life… meanwhile I’m just here trying to figure things out.</p><p><br/></p><p>I’m 18.</p><p>And yet, I feel like I’m late.</p><p>Like I should’ve “blown” by now.</p><p>Like I’m not doing enough.</p><p>Like I’m missing a race I didn’t even register for.</p><p><br/></p><p>But here’s what I’ve realized:</p><p>Most of us are not behind.</p><p>We’re just growing in a world that romanticizes “early success” and ignores the beauty of slow progress.</p><p><br/></p><p>Not having it all figured out at 18 is not failure.</p><p>It’s normal. It’s human. It’s real.</p><p><br/></p><p>To anyone who feels like they’re not enough because they’re still finding their way—breathe.</p><p>Life is not a competition.</p><p>It’s not “who gets rich first?”</p><p>It’s “who finds peace, purpose, and joy in their own time?”</p><p><br/></p><p>Trust your pace.</p><p>You’re not late.</p><p>You’re just getting started 🖤</p><p><br/></p>
At the end of each month, we give out cash prizes to 5 people with the best insights in the past month
as well as coupon points to 15 people who didn't make the top 5, but shared high-quality content.
The winners are NOT picked from the leaderboards/rankings, we choose winners based on the quality, originality
and insightfulness of their content.
Here are a few other things to know
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Quality over Quantity — You stand a higher chance of winning by publishing a few really good insights across the entire month,
rather than a lot of low-quality, spammy posts.
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Share original, authentic, and engaging content that clearly reflects your voice, thoughts, and opinions.
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Avoid using AI to generate content—use it instead to correct grammar, improve flow, enhance structure, and boost clarity.
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Explore audio content—high-quality audio insights can significantly boost your chances of standing out.
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Use eye-catching cover images—if your content doesn't attract attention, it's less likely to be read or engaged with.
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Share your content in your social circles to build engagement around it.
Contributor Rankings
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The all-time ranking is based on the Contributor Score, which is a measure of all the engagement and exposure a contributor's content receives.
The monthly score sums the score on all your insights in the past 30 days. The monthly and all-time scores are calcuated DIFFERENTLY.
This page also shows the top engagers on TwoCents — these are community members that have engaged the most with other user's content.
Contributor Score
Here is a list of metrics that are used to calcuate your contributor score, arranged from
the metric with the highest weighting, to the one with the lowest weighting.
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Comments (excluding replies)
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Upvotes
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Views
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Number of insights published
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Subscriptions received
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Tips received
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