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Here’s How Mastering Procedural Memory Can Take Your Writing to the Next Level. Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Here’s How Mastering Procedural Memory Can Take Your Writing to the Next Level.
By improving your procedural memory with practice, your writing might become more productive and reach new levels of…medium.com
Why Hope Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to be David Gerken
Why Hope Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to be
I might be stepping into a minefield by suggesting that hope is not all good, but hear me out.medium.com
Most Unromantic Things About America, According To My Danish Husband Anastasia Frugaard
The Most Unromantic Things About America, According To My Danish Husband
Tax returns and dirty diapersmedium.com
The Red State Murder Problem Hoax Brian E. Wish, PhD
The Red State Murder Problem Hoax
Examining Third Way’s partisan hackerymedium.com
My Journey into The Past Dr Michael Heng
My Journey into The Past
An Unforgettable Time Tunnel Experiencemedium.com
A Periodic Vision Statement Revision Is The Guiding Light Of Successful Medical Practice In 2023 Dr. ADAM TABRIZ
A Periodic Vision Statement Revision Is The Guiding Light Of Successful Medical Practice In 2023
Your Vision And Mission Shape Your Medical Practice!medium.com
Creating an Innovative Culture Dr. David Martin
Creating an Innovative Culture
Your Key to Organizational Success in 2023medium.com
Flying Wing Aircraft Trends. Dr John Frederick Rose
Flying Wing Aircraft Trends.
Glimpse of Intriguing Aircraft designs and where they’re going.medium.com
Signs That Someone No Longer Cares About You Dr. Deborah M. Vereen
Signs That Someone No Longer Cares About You
Listen to these signals when they speak.medium.com
Why You Shouldn’t Rely Solely on Chat GPT for Your Scientific Papers Dr Prashanth Panta
Why You Shouldn’t Rely Solely on Chat GPT for Your Scientific Papers
Can AI be the solution to scientific writing?medium.com
The Broken Plate Teaches Life’s Lessons: Learnings From Alexander The Great Dr. Preeti Singh
The Broken Plate Teaches Life’s Lessons: Learnings From Alexander The Great
Materialistic things are temporary focus on everlasting happinessmedium.com
Business Opportunities in the Golden Age of Mass Shootings Michael Burg, MD (Satire Sommelier)
Business Opportunities in the Golden Age of Mass Shootings
Passive income? Pshaw! This is aggressive AF.medium.com
Make Up Your Damn Mind! Martha Manning, Ph.D.
Make Up Your Damn Mind!
It’s hard to make decisions, but a bad choice is not the end of the world.medium.com
You’re shelving your books wrong wrong wrong! Britni Pepper
You’re shelving your books wrong wrong wrong!
Here’s what most booklovers don’t know.medium.com
How to Be an Influential Writer — 33 Insights from a Pro Desiree Driesenaar
How to Be an Influential Writer — 33 Insights from a Pro
Let’s compare notesmedium.com
Top 20 Movies Gamers Might Love Aiden (Illumination Gaming)
Top 20 Movies Gamers Might Love
These films feature technology, action, and adventure, making them appealing to computer gamers.medium.com
The Last Swim I Had With My Sister Rebecca Romanelli
The Last Swim I Had With My Sister
She swam away into the land of our ancestors, but not before we shared a moment of joy in the mighty Pacific ocean.medium.com
Apparently I died on July 17, 2016 Peter Ling
Apparently I died on July 17, 2016
A cautionary tale.medium.com
My Brother Loved Morocco, I Couldn’t Bring Myself To Visit It After He Died Rebecca Stevens A.
My Brother Loved Morocco, I Couldn’t Bring Myself To Visit It After He Died
That was until todaymedium.com
3 Unexpected Lessons from My (Failed) High-Carbohydrate Diet Experiment Nicole Linke
3 Unexpected Lessons from My (Failed) High-Carbohydrate Diet Experiment
Maybe carbohydrates are not the preferred fuel after allmedium.com
To Every Leader Around The World Paul Myers MBA
To Every Leader Around The World
To Lead is to enrich othersmedium.com
Happy Kwanzaa — Nia EP McKnight, MEd
Happy Kwanzaa — Nia
A poem about a life principle to brighten one’s journey.medium.com
Want To Be Super Healthy And Super Chill? Erin King
Want To Be Super Healthy And Super Chill?
This Strain Of Tea Has You Coveredmedium.com
100 Genuine Ways to Live a Better Life This Year. Genuinely. Emily Wilcox
100 Genuine Ways to Live a Better Life This Year. Genuinely.
Backed by science and a guy from YouTubemedium.com
Death is a Reminder That Time is Finite AJ Krow
Death is a Reminder That Time is Finite
What are you going to do about it?medium.com
Four types of people in the world Bill Abbate
Four types of people in the world
Understand others the easy waymedium.com
Luxury Lives in Washington, D.C. Douglas Pilarski
Luxury Lives in Washington, D.C.
A Recent Study By Glamira Ranks The Most Luxury-Obsessed Citiesmedium.com
I Make Resolutions Every Day. I Don’t Wait for the New Year. A Nkeonye Judith Izuka-Aguocha
I Make Resolutions Every Day. I Don’t Wait for the New Year.
Write in your heart that every day is the best day of the year.medium.com
The ‘Glass Onion’ Knows More about Your Inadequacies Than You Think Andrew Jazprose Hill
How I Found Peace without a Glock
Right-wing radio made me feel like a tiny-dong character in the ‘Glass Onion.’ Then the Universe showed me a better…medium.com
A List of My Most Read Stories in 2022 Anne Bonfert
A List of My Most Read Stories in 2022
My biggest earners and the stories behind the curtainmedium.com
How to Put Profits First Anthony Signorelli
How to Put Profits First
…and totally change your business.medium.com
What We Lose If We Lose The Colorado River: A Travelogue Arthur Keith
What We Lose If We Lose The Colorado River: A Travelogue
“This river can’t sustain 40 million people. And that’s the problem.”medium.com
If You Knew How Fast You Can Heal, Lose the Body Fat, and Feel Great, You’d Be Banging Your Head… Rob Hourmont
If You Knew How Fast You Can Heal, Lose the Body Fat, and Feel Great, You’d Be Banging Your Head…
Fixing your metabolic health, healing from within, and dropping your meds is achievable in weeks — so let’s get you…medium.com
Three Effective Ways to Control Your Hunger Hormones Maria Cross
Three Effective Ways to Control Your Hunger Hormones
Smart weight loss is about knowledge, not willpowermedium.com
Getting Yet Another Last Minute Invite Aza Y. Alam
Getting Yet Another Last Minute Invite
These days I am refusing to participate in spaces loaded with disrespect towards memedium.com
How Microsoft Tried to Lock Out Web Browser Competitors Barry Silverstein
How Microsoft Tried to Lock Out Web Browser Competitors
For 15 years, Internet Explorer dominated the marketmedium.com
Verified Charities for Earthquake Relief Bashar Salame, D.C
Verified Charities for Earthquake Relief
In times like these, Cash is Kingmedium.com
Why doing the “boring stuff” works in business Ben Copy
Why doing the “boring stuff” works in business
Back when I used to loiter around on LinkedIn, I once came upon a discussion in a community dedicated to copywriting…medium.com
MSN Comment Rejected — Why? Bill Myers
MSN Comment Rejected — Why?
Message had no connection to the real reason, which I guessed.medium.com
How to Avoid Self-Sabotage in Your Writing Jennifer Geer
How to Avoid Self-Sabotage in Your Writing
Recognizing self-defeating behaviors is the first stepmedium.com
Was it a Miracle? Bob Jasper
Was it a Miracle?
Or just good luck?medium.com
Insider Advice From An Editor Tree Langdon
Insider Advice From An Editor
Tips To Improve Everything You Writemedium.com
Everything You Experience Can Have a Positive Impact On You Borut
Everything You Experience Can Have a Positive Impact On You
About a bit unusual New Year’s wishes for 2023medium.com
Almost Killed and Nobody Cared Brian Dickens Barrabee
Almost Killed and Nobody Cared
There was a loud thud; not a bang, not a crash, not a boom — but a thud.medium.com
Hippies, Wisdom, Springsteen, Dylan, and You. Brooklyn Muse (editor)
Hippies, Wisdom, Springsteen, Dylan, and You.
Humanity and Understandingmedium.com
Blog Posts Do Nothing To Solve Any of the World’s Problems George J. Ziogas
Blog Posts Do Nothing To Solve Any of the World’s Problems
The con is to build a brand off the backs of othersmedium.com
Shocking News — CEO of South Africa’s Electricity Utility Survives Murder Attempt Caroline de Braganza
Shocking News — CEO of South Africa’s Electricity Utility Survives Murder Attempt
The Eskom story continues like a mystery crime thrillermedium.com
WHAT HARRY DOESN’T REALISE IS THE MEDIA IS USING HIM Claire Michaeljohn
What Harry Doesn’t Realise is The Media is Using Him
He thinks it’s a weapon, but it’s a noose.medium.com
17 Subtle Signs You’re a Starseed Crystal Jackson
17 Subtle Signs You’re a Starseed
Would you recognize the signs?medium.com
Saying Goodbye to the Year 2022 and Ringing in the New Year Debbie’s Reflection
Saying Goodbye to the Year 2022 and Ringing in the New Year
I Proclaim this Year Will be Bettermedium.com
We Are All Born Right-Handed Deborah Barchi
We Are All Born Right-Handed
Only the gifted overcome it.medium.com
The Good Soul Waits America Zed⚡
The Good Soul Waits
A poem of compassionmedium.com
Boomers Have a Message For You Before We Kick the Bucket Debra Groves Harman, MEd
Boomers Have a Message For You Before We Kick the Bucket
We’re not coming to visit and eat your foodmedium.com
How To Exercise Corporate Savvy-ness in a Remote Work Setting Dennis De Silva
How To Exercise Corporate Savvy-ness in a Remote Work Setting
If you isolate yourself, you will miss career opportunities.medium.com
The Owl and the Pussycat Duncan Klein
The Owl and the Pussycat
Putting the Art into AImedium.com
I Quit Medium for 18 Months; This is What I Learned Ella
I Quit Medium for 18 Months; This is What I Learned
On burn-out, taking a break, and new beginningsmedium.com
The Message Is To NOT Give Up Floyd Mori
The Message Is To NOT Give Up
From J.K. Rowling, an extremely successful authormedium.com
Waiting for the Night Frank Moone
Waiting for the Night
Illuminated by Darknessmedium.com
Light & Consciousness [3] Frank Ontario
Light & Consciousness [3]
Photons or EM Light: Consciousness/Lovemedium.com
Uninstalling This App Turned Out to Be Detrimental to My Health Gareth Willey
Uninstalling This App Turned Out to Be Detrimental to My Health
And a discussion about maintaining good habits.medium.com
Why ChatGPT is Dumb and Fooled by Easy Patterns Isaiah McCall
Why ChatGPT is Dumb and Fooled by Easy Patterns
There’s no real thought; no real understandingmedium.com
Why Do Airlines Get Away With This? Harlan Brothers
Why Do Airlines Get Away With This?
…and how can we change it?medium.com
Why We All Lose in the Culture War James Jordan
Why We All Lose in the Culture War
What if we tried to understand the other side instead of demonizing it?medium.com
Clap up to and Including 50 Times per Story. Jarrett Wilson
Clap up to and Including 50 Times per Story.
A Quick Tutorial on How to Express the Proper Enthusiasm for Your Fellow Writers and Their Storiesmedium.com
Let’s Decolonize our Brain Jean Carfantan
Let’s Decolonize our Brain
We grow mutilated, as the right zone of our brain is surrounded with a police tapemedium.com
How to Convert Your Article into a Profitable Course Jeff the Content Profit Coach
How to Convert Your Article into a Profitable Course
How many courses could you create?medium.com
A Millennial Korean Upbringing Jess Eunse
A Millennial Korean Upbringing
Kids these days have it easymedium.com
4 Encouraging Strategies I Used After a Break Jessie Vee
4 Encouraging Strategies I Used After a Break
To get out of a rut and back on trackmedium.com
Expanding My Footprint Jill Ebstein
Expanding My Footprint
A conscious decision that doesn’t feel natural but does feel necessarymedium.com
Life “Ain’t” Fair -Learning to Turn “Why Me?” into a Positive Experience Joan Gershman
Life “Ain’t” Fair -Learning to Turn “Why Me?” into a Positive Experience
The Numer One Lesson to Carry into 2023medium.com
The Slow Creep of Inflation or The Allegory of the Frog in Boiling Water Joe Luca
The Slow Creep of Inflation or The Allegory of the Frog in Boiling Water
A cautionary talemedium.com
Becoming a Travel Writer is an Adventure John M Dabbs
Becoming a Travel Writer is an Adventure
Travel writing is a dream job for many, but it’s not as easy as simply jetting off to exotic locations and scribbling…medium.com
Stuck ~ In Limbo, Out Of Work, & In A Slump Judy Musgrove
Stuck ~ In Limbo, Out Of Work, & In A Slump
My Purpose Destroyed at the Hands of Anothermedium.com
Goodbye, Redux Julia E Hubbel
Goodbye, Redux
Yeah I know. I said this last year. Then I came back like an abused spouse. Here’s where things stand.medium.com
Short Cuts for New Medium Writers Julius Evans
Short Cuts for New Medium Writers
Things You Can Do Now to Impact Your Views, Readers and Followersmedium.com
“The Power of Deep Work: How to Achieve Laser-Like Focus and Boost Your Productivity” Karthick Nambi
“The Power of Deep Work: How to Achieve Laser-Like Focus and Boost Your Productivity”
The importance of focusing on deep, meaningful work and offers strategies for cultivating deep work habits in order to…medium.com
Begin, Began, Be done, Crushing Procrastination Kevin Farran
Begin, Began, Be done, Crushing Procrastination
One simple practice that dissolves the beast that gnaws away at aspiration.medium.com
Has Black Lives Matter Movement Changed Anything? Krishna V Chaudhary
Has Black Lives Matter Movement Changed Anything?
The largest movement in the US Historymedium.com
The Third Front in Russia’s War to Erase Ukraine: You Lester Golden
The Third Front in Russia’s War to Erase Ukraine: You
Don’t get screwed in Russified Whataboutistanmedium.com
Not Just a Trifle Linda Osipow ~ Crazy, Almost Old Farm Wife
Not Just a Trifle
Challenge Your Perspectivemedium.com
Remembering My Senior Cat Spot Lucia Siochi
Remembering My Senior Cat Spot
How can such a small creature have such a big impact?medium.com
The Beginnings of Grief: Getting Through Martha Manning, Ph.D.
The Beginnings of Grief: Getting Through
It takes heartache and time to move forward while honoring the pastmedium.com
The Most Unforgettable Character I Ever Met Martin D. Hirsch
The Most Unforgettable Character I Ever Met
“This is the chief of police! Who’s this?” asked the gruff voice at the other end of the phone.medium.com
How to Deal With a Broken Heart Martin Vidal
How to Deal With a Broken Heart
Let’s take a look at what comes with a break up and what we can do with what’s leftmedium.com
I Began To Fall: Always Look Before You Leap May More 💜 Tales
I Began To Fall: Always Look Before You Leap
Patience, will-power and time helped me heal myself after a disabling knee injurymedium.com
Celebrating One Year Sober Melissa Raise
Celebrating One Year Sober
I never thought I would live drug and alcohol-free…medium.com
Confessions of a Recovering Christian Nationalist (Part 2) Michael Hollifield
Confessions of a Recovering Christian Nationalist (Part 2)
The United States flag is not sacred to all individuals in our country.medium.com
Are Medium Followers Important? Molly Freytag
Are Medium Followers Important?
Yes. And No.medium.com
Love in the Age of Dating Apps Can Be Fatal in India Napoleon
Love in the Age of Dating Apps Can Be Fatal in India
And so is bigotrymedium.com
“Justice” and Kavanaugh Penofgold
“Justice” and Kavanaugh
A Sundance film and ethical imperativemedium.com
Where did ChatGPT get its knowledge? René Junge
Where did ChatGPT get its knowledge?
I asked Chat GPT about the sources it was trained with. Here are the answersmedium.com
How Plants Say Ouch! Rich Sobel
How Plants Say Ouch!
One way plant cells talk to each other.medium.com
InCubation Robert Trakofler
InCubation
Some Poems and a Bit of Prose About My Death Experiencesmedium.com
(12 of 12): ‘10,000 Instructors in Christ’ vs. Very Few ‘Fathers of the Gospel’ Called by God Roger Himes Esquire
(12 of 12): ‘10,000 Instructors in Christ’ vs. Very Few ‘Fathers of the Gospel’ Called by God
Teachers Tell You What You Have to DO to be Right with God. Fathers Tell All the Good God Does for Us and All the Ways…medium.com
Guard Your Heart, But Don’t Isolate It Rosennab
Guard Your Heart, But Don’t Isolate It
Your need love from more than one personmedium.com
Kissing the Frog Ruth Smith
Kissing the Frog
The Power of Accepting the Unacceptablemedium.com
Neuroplasticity: The Secret to a New You Segun Ojediran, MSc
Neuroplasticity: The Secret to a New You
The brain’s superpower you’d wish you knew about sooner.medium.com
In Session (22) Shadowgnosis
In Session (22)
The Lay Psychiatrist diagnoses castration anxietymedium.com
Can’t Find your Motivation Sherrie Hurd Hyatt
Can’t Find your Motivation
Am I right?medium.com
Top 5 TV Series from Netflix in 2022 Stephen Dalton
Top 5 TV Series from Netflix in 2022
Although it’s challenging to narrow down the hundreds of TV series from 2022, these were my top five Netflix TV series…medium.com
The Weak Shall Inherit The Earth Steve QJ
The Weak Shall Inherit The Earth
The poisonous power of victimhoodmedium.com
IFF Research Sumera Rizwan
IFF Research
My experience as an employeemedium.com
Old Photo Revival Project: Street Photographs in Bangladesh, Part III Suntonu Bhadra
Old Photo Revival Project: Street Photographs in Bangladesh, Part III
When life and motions synced in silent stillness, something beautiful happens.medium.com
Had a Negative Covid Test? Nose Swabs Are Unreliable — Try a Throat Swab Susie Kearley
Had a Negative Covid Test? Nose Swabs Are Unreliable — Try a Throat Swab
The tests are more unreliable with new variantsmedium.com
Watch Your Anxiety! tarun bhatt
Watch Your Anxiety!
Don’t suppress it but manage it.medium.com
Keeping His Name TDO Timothy
Keeping His Name
A Post-Divorce Reflectionmedium.com
Worthy Teresa D Hawkes, Ph.D.
Russ and the Magic Bus Tim Ebl
Russ and the Magic Bus
I’ll never forget the day Russ tried to kill a busload of screaming, airborne oilfield workers.medium.com
The Hard Truth Why You Need to be Like Tom Brady as a Writer Tom Handy
The Hard Truth Why You Need to be Like Tom Brady as a Writer
Playing sports is just like writing when you do this.medium.com
My Brush With Greatness Tom Hanratty
My Brush With Greatness
Living the dreammedium.com
My Leadership Challenge In 2022 Prepared Me for 2023 Toni Crowe
My Leadership Challenge In 2022 Prepared Me for 2023
Never too late to teach an old dog new tricks.medium.com
Love Thy Neighbor, But Don’t Judge Them! Tooth Truth Roopa Vikesh
Love Thy Neighbor, But Don’t Judge Them!
An India-Pakistan Tamil Brahmin wedding story from 1939medium.com
What Kind of an Actor Are You in Your Own Film? Ugur Akinci
Walk in Your Own Shoes: What Kind of Actor Are You?
There’s a time to deliver your lines without shame, guilt, or hesitationmedium.com
Guilt and Fear are Utilized by Others to Put You Down Utpal Kumar
Guilt and Fear are Utilized by Others to Put You Down
This is mainly done by people of different character typemedium.com
AI is Not the Enemy Vanessa Robinson
AI is Not the Enemy
But it can be.medium.com
Revolutionizing Note-Taking — How ‘Craft’ is Changing the Game Over Evernote and Notion wordsmithwriter
Revolutionizing Note-Taking — How ‘Craft’ is Changing the Game Over Evernote and Notion
Impact of Craft on the note-taking industry and its future state.medium.com
How Writers and Bloggers Transition to Become Published Authors ILLUMINATION-Curator
How Writers and Bloggers Transition to Become Published Authors
An interview with Dr. Mehmet Yildiz, Chief Editor of Illumination Integrated Publications, who provides insights to…medium.com
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