Give up notifications and statistics Created by the author — original image from Austin Distel on Unsplash Medium is different. It doesn’t need to psychologically manipulate you to make money off you. Evan Williams, the founder, has said explicitly he counts the total reading time as his metric of success. Medium wants you to spend more time reading and
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Let Tagore change your perspective Created by the author — original image from Wikimedia Commons It’s a tragedy more of us do not know the name, Rabindranath Tagore. He is a titan of South Asian art and philosophy and the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. His words have inspired many and form
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A practical 4-step guide with examples Photo by Alexis Brown on Unsplash The dilemma for writers like me isn’t idea generation, it’s how to convert the formless bundle of energy in our minds to the written word. I struggled with this a lot until I brought my day job to my writing. Anything you write must have structure even
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Prepare for the best, not just the worst Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash Please, don’t make the same silly mistakes I did. I wasn’t ready for my second article to get 85,000 views and I had no idea what I was doing. Most writing journeys start with a crawl. I’m one of the lucky ones who started
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Being destructive does not help change anything Created by the author — original image from Pexels I’ve been angry a lot. In my superiority, I’ve been frustrated at those who think differently than me, and maybe you feel the same. The world feels like it’s getting angrier in the last few years. I smugly believed
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#5 Integrity Created by the author — original image from Pexels Let me tell you a secret. I don’t know you. None of the writers you read know you. So how can any of us demand you spend more time writing? I only started writing this year yet I’ve already seen too much writer shaming.
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Stop making these mistakes and grow Created by the author — original image from Pexels We’ve been learning all our lives, so why does it still feel so hard? Many people use the same techniques they used to study for exams at school. Clearly, we all loved studying for exams so much. These old methods
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I never thought I would journal Created by the author — original image from Pexels My whole life, I’ve been chasing goals and looking at the future. Nothing I achieved was enough especially in comparison to everyone else. I imagined others as far happier than I was. I could get 90% but be annoyed I was
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Sourced from 500 stories and 52 experts Created by the author — original image from Pexels The amount of advice online can be overwhelming. I save then forget. This is the one story you need to bookmark. My singular aim is to make this a story you keep coming back to. I have spent days analyzing
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#9: Eat your frogs Created by the author — original image from Pexels I’m one of those people you might hate. Sorry. I always seemed to learn quickly and be carefree when others were cramming last minute for exams. Younger me could be a little too smug about this. (Sorry.) What people didn’t see was
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