Self Help
What a Pleasant Surprise
To discover a free course offered by Yale University is still paying dividends
Thanks must go to the course providers though. They provided the knowledge and the inspiration.
Waking up to find a Many Stories ✨ Your story was featured email,
does not happen every day. How wonderful to be featured. To be honest, I didn’t even know Many Stories featured stories. Did you?
If you are a writer, you may or may not be a member of Many Stories. As you can see from today’s windfall, adding your stories to their system is fortuitous.
Casey Botticello’s post tells you more about Many Stories. You can even share stories from other platforms. Many Stories is a distribution system.
If you are trying to expand your audience beyond the same Medium readers, then ManyStories is a must! Casey Botticcello
If you are a reader, you might enjoy reading your favourite writers on the Many Stories platform.
Whether you are a reader or writer, I will earn a tiny sum should you use my link and join Many Stories to read to your heart’s content or add as many stories as you have time to do.
The Science of Well Being
Coursera offers a free course from Yale University called The Science of Well Being. I discovered it last year when looking for something interesting to increase my knowledge about millennials.
Laurie Santos works with a group of Yale students on the difficulties they face as young adults in today’s world of social media. I have a 28-year-old son, so I’m invested in the subject.
You can learn so much about why social media is depressing us. How buying more and more goods online makes us happy, but only for a short while. The science behind our actions aids our decision-making for the future.
Recognizing When We Are in the Throes of Hedonic Adaptation, penned after studying part of the course lives in ILLUMINATION-Curated. As with other evergreen stories, they continue to crop up whenever they are relevant.
I hope to have inspired and entertained both readers and writers.
Thank you for reading.
Karen Madej is a freelance writer. She writes for News Break, Medium, and Vocal. Her weekly editorial reviews of new writers and star reads for ILLUMINATION, ILLUMINATION’S-MIRROR, ILLUMINATION Book Chapters and Technology Hits are regularly chosen for further distribution.
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