Great thoughts!
I started here in a quest to stack 1000 tokens as part of my crypto portfolio. It has become so much more than that as I discovered community.
Since then, I have simplified it to Content + Networking (engagement) + Time = Hive success.
People with the stake you would like to build have simply done the things you have done longer, and found better ways to do it throughout their journey.
Engagement really is the most powerful and rewarding thing but would mean very little without the other 2.