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How Do You Challenge Your Readers on Medium?
Up, down, up, down, faster, shake that sexy ass, harder, fasterrrrrr, that’s good! That was a decent ten reps of jumping jacks! Now run a couple of miles and come back here in twenty minutes or so. Are you feeling tired? What? Raise your voice! I can’t hear you. Go, go run, and don’t complain! Noooow
Did you think you would join this camp and play here easily? Only in your dreams, and oh, by the way, that beginning got the attention of your dirty mind? Those few sexy lines were your treat for being such a good, good nasty ..… (complete the sentence to fit your taste better)
When you challenge your readers’ intelligence, ideas, and mindset, you turn yourself from a boring writer who puts their readers to sleep to a transformational genius who makes their readers raise their eyebrows and question their old habits and beliefs.
In all of my articles, I try to tease and play with my readers’ emotions, misbeliefs, and old habits; writing a piece about how to follow ten steps to read faster isn’t effective in turning someone from an idiot into an intelligent genius.
But making readers doubt their learning habits, routines, and focus, then asking them to observe and reflect on the surroundings, including themselves, will make them realize that all the shit they have been through in life results from…