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Can You Break Most of the Rules and Still Have a $2k Story?
The short answer: yes
To save everyone some time: if you’re looking for a how-to or listicle, I’m not your girl and this isn’t that story. Go here instead. But, yes, I have written a story on Medium that recently surpassed the $2,000 mark. Today, I share a bit about myself, the rules I break on a daily basis, and the guidelines that helped propel this story to success. Still interested? Hooray! Please read on! Not what you were looking for? No worries, I just saved you a few minutes of boredom and/or being unfulfilled.
I’ve always known I was, ahem, unusual on Medium. OK, in life, too.
There was the time my mom declared: “Oh, I finally get you, Bonnie.” I was, like, 31 at the time.
For the first three decades of my life, my own mother didn’t understand me. C’mon, that’s funny.
INFJs like to proclaim they’re the rarest personality on earth. Not to take away their thunder (I’m totally taking away their thunder), that’s not exactly true. As a group, INFJs are the rarest; however, as a female INTJ, I represent just .8% of the population. I’m actually the rarest personality type in existence.
It’s taken me a while to appreciate what that reality means. I won’t go into all of it here, but I will share that as…
