The first story by Dr Purcell on ILLUMINATION about to go VIRAL
The Hardest Stoic Spiritual Exercise Crucial for Happiness

I admire the success of our writers. They are a source of inspiration to me.
When I was undertaking my administrative duties and collecting curated articles for my daily editorial bulletin to be released later today, a spike in traffic attracted my attention in the publication dashboard.
Most of the stories were getting a reasonable number of views, but one of the stories had thousands of views within a few hours.
This is the trending story by Sebastian Purcell, PhD, who is a new writer on ILLUMINATION. However, I don’t think Dr Purcell is new to writing. His content is engaging, inspiring, and insightful.
A few unique patterns of this story attracted my attention. Therefore, I want to feature this story to give an idea of exclusive stories to our writers. My goal is also to allow our readers to explore these types of popular stories on our publication.
Interestingly, as a new writer of our publication, this is the first story that Dr Purcell submitted to ILLUMINATION yesterday.
The story hasn’t even been curated yet, and I firmly believe it can be.
Any reasonable curator should understand the quality of this article and its impact on our lives.
The story received 17,200 views in fewer than 24 hours even before curation.
The analytics details in the system are not available yet; therefore, I cannot provide further information similar to my previously featured stories.
I am glad Dr Purcell used the #philosophy tag as ILLUMINATION has a specific amplifier for this tag giving a filtered view to our philosophy followers.

As this is a unique story, I want to comment on the content of this story briefly without spoiling it for you.
Even though the content has a scientific flavor, it was written in simple language with an engaging tone. It is relatively a short story which took me only five minutes to read, but Medium shows eleven minutes reading time.
Since this specific topic is my passion, I read the story the second time to enjoy the interpretation of Dr Purcell of stoicism based on his personal and professional experience. The core theme is individual and social vulnerability.
The key message of the story is inspiring and uplifting with practical take away points.
My first impression based on this single story is that Dr Purcell understands human psychology and social norms remarkably well. He generously shares his personal and professional experience to convey the key messages to his readers.
I don’t want to spoil the story content for you so linking it here for your enjoyment.
The Hardest Stoic Spiritual Exercise and Why It’s Crucial for Happiness
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