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Paul Ryburn, M.Sc.
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May 30

Attract Prosperity with These Words from a Champion Poker Player

Daniel didn’t even realize he was providing a mantra to live life by — It’s perfectly fine to look for life advice in the usual places. Self-improvement books, for example. Or personal development articles on this very platform. Wisdom is everywhere, though. It’s all around you. You just have to keep your eyes and ears finely tuned so you don’t miss it. From 2009…

Psychology

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Attract Prosperity with These Words from a Champion Poker Player
Attract Prosperity with These Words from a Champion Poker Player
Psychology

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Jun 16, 2022

Covert Narcissist Victim’s Smear Campaign Survival Guide

You suspect a campaign has been launched to destroy your good name. What’s your plan? — How could they do this to me? If that’s the thought you’ve been having over and over, this article is for you. Someone’s been going behind your back saying terrible, untrue things about you to your friends, your family, your coworkers. …

Narcissism

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Covert Narcissist Victim’s Smear Campaign Survival Guide
Covert Narcissist Victim’s Smear Campaign Survival Guide
Narcissism

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Feb 22, 2022

When Food Deserts Lose Their Only Source of Balanced Nutrition

Corporate negligence caused the temporary closure of stores depended upon by the impoverished — What if you had no way to get the food you needed to live, at prices which you could afford? Most of you reading this have access to a big-box or at least a medium-sized grocery store. You can shop for meat cut by the in-store butcher. You have access…

Poverty

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When Food Deserts Lose Their Only Source of Balanced Nutrition
When Food Deserts Lose Their Only Source of Balanced Nutrition
Poverty

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Feb 21, 2022

Don’t Abandon Your Intuition for the Advice of Popular Dating “Gurus”

How such advice caused me to turn my back on a woman who needed me — The mid-to-late ’00s were the prime years of dating “gurus,” although many of them are around to this day. Linguistics expert Paul Ross, known by his stage name Ross Jeffries at the time, was selling Speed Seduction products, telling guys what to say to get women in bed — fast…

Relationships

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Don’t Abandon Your Intuition for the Advice of Popular Dating “Gurus”
Don’t Abandon Your Intuition for the Advice of Popular Dating “Gurus”
Relationships

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Feb 16, 2022

Covert Narcissists — You Cannot Change Them

And there is great danger in trying — “I know a woman who possesses many of the traits you describe,” read a private note attached to my recent article Covert Narcissists — 7 Quotes to Empower Their Victims. “I know I can help her.” NOOOOOOOOOO! Believing you can help a covert narcissist is an extremely dangerous mindset to…

Narcissism

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Covert Narcissists — You Cannot Change Them
Covert Narcissists — You Cannot Change Them
Narcissism

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Feedium

·Feb 16, 2022

Dark Topics Earn Big Money

Fellow writers, have you had the same experience? And what does this say about us as a society? — I recently conducted an audit of my nearly 200 articles’ stats. I wanted to see which topics, keywords, and key phrases did well, so that I could search for similar ideas to write about. I thought it would be a fun exercise. Given my background in math, I love crunching…

Writing

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Dark Topics Earn Big Money
Dark Topics Earn Big Money
Writing

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Feb 15, 2022

Covert Narcissists: 7 Quotes to Empower Their Victims

Helping you make sense out of an experience that makes no sense at all — “How could they do this to me? How could they do this to me???” It’s the distressed call of a victim of a covert narcissist in the wild. I know it well. It’s a call I’ve made many times. The complete and utter confusion and frustration. …

Abuse

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Covert Narcissists: 7 Quotes to Empower Their Victims
Covert Narcissists: 7 Quotes to Empower Their Victims
Abuse

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Writers’ Blokke

·Feb 14, 2022

How to Motivate Yourself to Write When You Don’t Feel Like It

When you have plenty of ideas, but little motivation to convert them into articles — It’s one thing to go days or weeks without writing because you don’t have any strong article or topic ideas. Been there, done that. But what do you do when you have plenty of ideas, yet you lack the motivation to sit down in front of the computer and start…

Productivity

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How to Motivate Yourself to Write When You Don’t Feel Like It
How to Motivate Yourself to Write When You Don’t Feel Like It
Productivity

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Feb 14, 2022

Why Medium Has More Earning Potential Than Simily

Except for very specific types of articles, under the current payout plan — “Writers — Don’t Miss Out on a Chance to Earn on this Exciting New Platform,” headlines in my Medium Daily Digest have read over the past couple of weeks. The “exciting new platform” is Simily. It’s an online content creation platform with an editor similar to that of Medium. Although…

Writing

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Why Medium Has More Earning Potential Than Simily
Why Medium Has More Earning Potential Than Simily
Writing

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Paul Ryburn, M.Sc.

Paul Ryburn, M.Sc.

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