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Curated Collection #52
Chosen stories from experienced writers for avid readers
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Our purpose is to give avid readers a quick taste of engaging stories from our diverse and inclusive publication ILLUMINATION on Medium. Therefore, we have chosen some stories published on our publication out of many published articles today. We value efforts of our writers who delight discerning readers. You may check useful stories from a curated collection of our special publication SYNERGY giving voice to freelance writers.
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Illumination YouTube Coordinator prepared an excellent YouTube video introducing our senior editor and leadership writer Bill Abbate. We hope you enjoy this great video. We created a story of it with a link to the video and the transcript. We will introduce more writers on our YouTube channel to create visibility their accounts and stories.
Due to heavy workload today, we were unable to complete adding new writers. We will announce them tomorrow in collection #53. In the meantime, applicants may check the onboarding pack to get ready.
We keep our featured collections in a single post titled Meta Collection of Featured Stories. You may also check great stories in our featured collection from the last three days. Here are the last three collections full of interesting stories covering many topics.Curated
The Last Three Collections by ILLUMINATION
We believe that you find some valuable and enjoyable pieces on this collection and previous collections.
Featured Stories from ILLUMINATION Today
Seven Proven Health Benefits of Alpha-Lipoic Acid Dr Mehmet Yildiz #health
Why Do We Need Vitamin K2? Dr Mehmet Yildiz #health
John’s Stray Friday Thoughts. Dr John Frederick Rose
If You’re Starting A Side Hustle In 2022, Read This Matt Lillywhite
Six Extremely Essential Tools for Academic Writers Afzal Badshah, PhD
16 Brilliant Life Lessons I Would Never Have Learned without Narcissistic Abuse Melissa Kalt, MD
Why Does a Covert Narcissist Reject Attempts to Improve the Relationship? Melissa Kalt, MD
The Addicts We Love Michael Patanella
I Will Never Be At War With The Russians Frank T Bird
Who Needs Sex? Francesco Rizzuto
8: Not everything gets better with time. Aasha Krishnan
What the Brain, Athlete, Basket Case, Princess, and Criminal Taught Us Adam James
12 Fascinating Facts About Jack Ma and the Rise Of Alibaba Alex Philippe
Willing to Stop Amy Christie
Which Robo-Advisor is best? Amy Fujisaki
The Essential Types of Rest we all Need to Consider in a Non-Stop world Ange Dim
What Do Mosquitoes Really Eat? Antonis Iliakis
How To Make $1000 To $2000 Each Month With Amazon FBM ASAD EDUCATE
How the Most Traumatizing Story I Wrote Improved My Writing Voice Assumpta Nalubowa
How Well Do You See? Bill Abbate
Ryan Reynolds Deadpool 3 Bogdan Munteanu
Art Brooklyn Muse
As is Above… Brooklyn Muse
Investing 101: Simplifying Stock Investing Buckets Investing
6 Figures a DAY For What? Burk
The One Thing That May Help With The Achievement Scream Carrie Kolar
I’m Moving South with my Family Casimiro Designer
How to Break the Heart of a Three Year Old Chad Gates
The Astonishing Man Who Unexpectedly Changed My Life Forever Chana Harris
Mental Health Matters — 4 Daily Habits To Boost Happiness Chrissie Marie Massey
Doctors: Are You Making A Profit From Illness Or Are You Reducing the Incidence of It? Christina Vaughn: Nurse, Writer, Creator.
New Jersey Mall fight Reminds us that Racism (and colorism?) is Still a Thing. Coke Francis
How I Received Free Government Grants for My Small Business! Crystal Mathews
What To Do When They Spit On Your Dream Dave Richards
How A Raven Lead Me To England With A Dream To Write Deborah Holmén
Quote Series #2. Winston Churchill about Democracy Denys Opria
Is Coffee Dangerous to Health? Recent Research Reveals the Truth Denys Opria
“The Good (?) Old Days” Thoughts on the Nature of Human Pessimism Dimitrios Fanourios Pischinas
Where Do You Stand to Tell Your Story? Don Martin
Collected Stories from Dr John Rose. Dr John Frederick Rose
Management Fix Eduardo Espinheira
Should Spiritual Gurus Make a Profit from Their Events? Edward John
Old Favorites Elizabeth Emerald
A Champion’s Philosophy Ephraim Champion
What Can We Learn from Reconciliation: Healing the Inner Child Evelyn Lim
Fighting off Dementia in Old Age Floyd Mori
My 10 Book Recommendations for this Black History Month Francesca Gabrielle Bavaro
To recompose the pieces of love. A poem Francesco Carrubba
The Jack Acid Society From the Mountain ~ Stories & Photos of JD Adams
My 1st Month on Medium Partner Program: Earnings, Stats, Lessons gcwrites
Twelve Simple Tricks to Win People to Your Way of Thinking by Dale Carnegie Gereon Wellmann
Results of My Zoom Meeting With Simily Founders Glenn Stok
How To Win Discussion Against Manipulators Gokhan Yalcuk
How to Make A Woman Think of You Growth Lodge
I’m Tired of Hoping to Go Viral Hakima T A N T R I K A
Islam: 6 Misconceptions debunked Hamza El Bouzekraoui
The Shadow of Regret Harry Hogg
The Fundamental Neurosis of Our Time Harry Stefanakis
The Ghost of Virality’s Past I am not Hermione
Look How Far You’ve Come I. Trudie Palmer
Meet Bill Abbate on Illumination YouTube Channel ILLUMINATION
Give SawToMe a Chance Improv Cowboy
Make Your Life More Beautiful Ingerul Pierdut
Trees In Winter Iva Hotko
The (Most Underrated) Reason Why You’re Successful J.D Rehbein-Wrightstein
Three Simple Call To Action Templates For Your Content J.R. Heimbigner
This FDA Approved Drug Unlocks 100% of Your Brain Jackson Zheng
Stop Gatekeeping Content Jared Bouchard
Medium Paid Me This Much For 5K Views — I Couldn’t Believe It Jaron Mays
10 Good Things about Americans- From an Indian perspective Jaysankar D Talukdar
21 Profitable Article Ideas Jeff Herring
Your Audience Is Going to Love Your Unoriginal Ideas Jeff Peirish
Glitter in the Bathtub Jennifer Geer
How I Got My First 6K Views And Earned $54.94 Jim Clyde Monge
The Archangels Talk about ET’s Jodie Helm
9 Income Streams That Will Make You 27K Per Week: How to Create Passive Income John Adam Ledford
Who Do You See When You Look in the Mirror? John Cunningham
Like Pulling Teeth John O'Neill
The Most Important Self Love Message John R. Miles
Why I Don’t Need To Get Married Jonathan Peykar
When My Spirit is Free, I… Josie P. Julius
How to make sure you’re on top of your tasks Julian Cosky
It’s OK to Become Many Different People as You Travel Through Life Karen Lynn
Praying is Something We Do in Our Own Time Katerina Zitta
Why Are Women Judged Harshly Compared To Men When It Comes To Cleaning? KL Simmons
Humans have created a star! Can you believe it? kristin schuhknecht
Ever Wondered How A Gang Works? Kunaal b
I Meditated 4 Hours a Day After My Break up | Here’s What Happened Larenzo
The Perfect Story Larissa Capella
The Day I Died Leonard Tillerman
What I Learned When We Were Boycotted Because of Our Beliefs Lisa Krikawa
Believing Thoughts Little Monster
45 Ways A Medium Thread Is Better Than A Twitter Thread Llewellyn (Lew) Daniels
45 Ways A Medium Thread Is Better Than A Twitter Thread
It’s not what you think. I think?
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What Does It Mean to Be Old? Lois Requist
Are We Searching for Love in the Right Places? Lola Rosario
5 Reasons Why Your Personal Objects Are So Important Lucia Landini
Shut Up and Eat Your Grandmother Lucy Socha
Good for You Madison Kelley
3 remedies when your first year of writing starts to suck MarkfromBoston
THE STORY OF A BOY AND HIS MOTORBIKE TOY Marta Kusiak
How to Really Take Messy Action Today and Not Tomorrow to Be Excited Melissa Herb
69% Of My Story Reads Are For Stories Published This Month Mike Lewis
The 6 + 1 Steps To Improve Your Self-Esteem Mpdoc
Body Art and Assumptions Natalie Forrest
February Sucks! Nathan White
Punishment Post Speech — poem NEBOH
Carl Jung’s Solution for Anxiety Nick Birthday
Senior Skip Day Isn’t the Same When You’re At Home. Nick Stockton
Dating and Your Ex Nicole Higginbotham-Hogue, Author on Amazon
Social Touch Is a Powerful Force in Human Development Nicole Wallet
Understanding Random Forest — Simply Explaining the Algorithm Niklas Lang
How to Get Rid of Caffeine Nikola Ojdanić, Ph.M.
Would You Invest in a Peptide Moisturizer? Nkeonye Judith Izuka-Aguocha
3 Websites That Pay Minimum $100 Per Article (For Fiction Writers) Oguz Bayata
The Point of No Return Øivind H. Solheim
Belief in yourself Omkar Ranveerkar
Mummies with Golden Tongues Otis Adams
23 Paying Writing Markets — Earn Hundreds to Thousands of Dollars Freelancing From This Writing… Pamela Kazmierczak
Why should I care about climate change? Patrick OConnell
We Should Probably Thank the Long Days Too paulmartincurry
How To Write Irresistible Headlines Prince Verma
Why Movies are the source of our habits Pushpender Yadav
The Average Person’s Life Is A Prison Rafay Hiraj
Today Is Your Day, Make It Count Rex Shadeseagle
Transition Robert Shaneyfelt
The modern relevance of ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ Robin Romano
Life Quality — a Poem Roxanne Barbour
Working for a Nonprofit Isn’t All It’s Cracked up to Be Roxanne Bridgers
I resent the system. Samantha Drobac
Top 8 Mistakes to Avoid in Life Shea Cummings
I made $590+ taking pictures of grocery shopping Shu Hasegawa
Lov’n Old German-Irish-African American-Jew Men, Lucky Dogs Skippy von Alte Welt
This Small Gmail Hack Has Been A Gift to My Brain Steve Fitz
Living Spaces Suma Narayan
Why did Ford fail in India? SURYASH KUMAR
Why did Ford fail in India?
Quality wasn’t the problem but failing to read the market was
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How David Perlmutter’s Highlighting is Flagging a Medium Glitch! Susie Kearley
Hand-Picked Articles #19 Technology Hits
Sugar Alternatives TruHealth by Kasara
We Are Tribes Driven by Ideology Veritas Civis
BREAKDOWN: 4 Powerful Ways to Calmly Resolve Disagreements VRITANT
Did You See What Matt Stafford Did? Wes Putnam
The Shadow, Hidden as the Light Wide Writer
9 Life Skills They Don’t Teach In School WrittenMastery
Selected Stories from Previously Featured Stories
How Reading Scientific Research Can Improve Your Writing: A Beginner’s Guide. Ben Rutt, PhD
Seeing The Bourgeois Revaluation in Literature Ellen Clardy, PhD #economy
Reading the Bible in a Year Has Not Been Conducive to Spiritual Growth Cathy Chapman, PhD
Bolstered Dr. Fatima Imam
Does Optimism Stink as Bad as Pessimism? Amy Sea
Three Tips to Prevent & Treat Obesity Dr Mehmet Yildiz #health
Magnesium Is Not Just Another Mineral Dr Mehmet Yildiz #health
My Most Cherished Moment Working on “The West Wing” TV Show David Gerken #life-lessons
Squeeze the Juice Out of the Present Stop Daydreaming About the Future Ayodeji Awosika #self-improvement
The True Story Of The Confederacy Moving To Brazil Matt Lillywhite
Three Tips to Improve Cardiovascular Health Dr Mehmet Yildiz
A Coat of Time Arthur G. Hernandez
Real Estate Agents Can Be the Worst Humans in the World Tim Denning
Why You Should Enjoy Social Media But Not Get Addicted To it Dr. Preeti Singh
Three Tips to Emotional Regulation Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Meet Lanu Pitan
Establishing Utopian America Qadir Abdus-Sabur, Ph.D.
Beware the Foot-Licking and Tooth-Pulling Demons from Persia Brian Loo Soon Hua
How I Healed Abdominal Bloating and Distension Dr Mehmet Yildiz
How I Earned $360 and 6,800 Views From A Single Story Viktor Marchev
Read This When You Want To Make Money Via Investing Richelle Délia, PhD
Breakups: 7 Reasons Why You Don’t Need Your Ex Back Rodolfo Urbano, CPA
On Trauma & Addiction: Lessons from a Defensive Iceberg and His Oversized Hat Dr. Cort Dorn-Medeiros
Shocking Stats About Non-Communicable Diseases Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Stop the Screen Wars: How to Make Screen Transitions a Little Less Painful Dr. Cort Dorn-Medeiros
WHY are you asking me this? Dr Andrea Polzer
Times Change From Good Old Stiff Neck Ties To modern Gorpcore Dr. Preeti Singh
Meet Julius Evans by ILLUMINATION
Meet Sufyan Maan by ILLUMINATION
Invitation to My New Publication Illumination YouTube Coordinator
Trending Stories on Publication
Five Tips to Melt Visceral Fat and Have a Defined Belly Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Three Tips to Eliminate Insulin Resistance and Shrink Waistline Dr Mehmet Yildiz
School Should Teach Us These Eight Simple Things (Yet It Doesn’t) Tim Denning
Fasting Can Change Brain Chemistry Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Six Lifestyle Habits to Skyrocket Fat Loss Dr Mehmet Yildiz #health
Reasons Why My (European) Husband and I Will Eventually Leave America Anastasia Frugaard
Five Tips to Slow Down, Lose Fat, and Enjoy Life Dr Mehmet Yildiz
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