How to Improve Your Medium Experience
damn our attention spans and wanting results NOW!
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I’ve been here on Medium for four months and I’ve already read what feels like a bazillion different articles on how to:
Increase your followers!
Increase your views!
Increase your claps/comments/interactions!
Which is all great…But you know what else I’ve realized? You can very easily become in competition with YOURSELF.
Which isn’t all that great.
We spend enough of our lives trying to compete with other people — especially in this age of social media and ‘influencers’.
We want to be healthier/better looking/funnier/more successful/busier/happier/more in love than our neighbours/co-workers/Twitter, Facebook and Instagram followers.
Add in Medium Stats — which can become an obsessive way you end up competing with yourself and probably becoming disappointed with your lack of meteoric rise to Medium fame, and even courting burnout.
The solution is obvious, isn’t it? Check them rarely. Like, once a month.
Your mental health will thank you.
