Excellent thoughts throughout this article.

Re these lines I highlighted, this is why I could never understand why people read listicles that did not contain any piece of the writer or at least say how the writer applied to their own lives the advice they copy pasted from internet searches. (Listicles are a little better disguised by AI content creation these days (as some other commenters have touched on) but still pretty obvious.

I blasted the listicle writers a couple of years ago in my https://medium.com/technical-excellence/please-stop-telling-readers-what-to-do-918d7adf128f subtitled Try telling your story in the first-person-narrative; lead by example, not by instructing. Even when I know a writer is writing from personal experience, I get turned off when they write in the second or third person narrative and don't show vulnerability, which is where true connections are made. Thus I quoted a text to a mentee: "I urge you to start writing in the first person and stop with the shallow instructional video type of spiritual writing. I suggest you learn to share those stories which I wager you dont want to think about because it’s painful — well my love the only way to heal is to feel the pain — you want light — you need capital L Light, not bullshit it doesnt stick to me light, and to make room for Light you have to feel the pain and sadness — you need to let yourself scream in agony — that drains the pain pockets and makes room for LIGHT."