Mehmet Yildiz

18 hours ago | medium.com | Mehmet Yildiz

Is it true that every idea you have, somebody has already thought of? Whatever question I have, I looked it up and find that people have already talked about it. When I was thinking of my pen name, every combination of words I came up with was already out there: A band name, a song, or some physics concept. What about philosophical ideas? Is there anything philosophers haven’t thought about for hours, or days, or even years; and written essays on?

18 hours ago | medium.com | Varun Joshi |Mehmet Yildiz

We curate & disseminate outstanding stories from diverse domains to create synergy. Inquiries: https://digitalmehmet.com/ Subscribe to our content marketing strategy: https://drmehmetyildiz.substack.com/Follow publicationAnd how I cope effectively. 30%-70% of us fly off the handle regularly and often will be diagnosed with things like anxiety or depression, when in reality, it all has to do with the weird way our brains are wired.

18 hours ago | medium.com | Mehmet Yildiz

Let me be clear: I love teaching. I’ve been a college professor for over a decade. I’ve written recommendation letters, hosted office hours at 9 p.m., and stayed up grading essays from students who reminded me of myself at 19 hopeful, hungry, and totally unaware of how expensive that hope had become. But somewhere along the way, I stopped believing in the system I was a part of. Not because education isn’t valuable it is. But because the way we sell education today?

18 hours ago | medium.com | Radha Mishra |Mehmet Yildiz

Bengaluru was supposed to celebrate on Wednesday. Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), a team with perhaps the country’s most loyal fan base, won their first IPL title. Ending an 18-year-long wait. A victory parade was planned. Spirits were high. And for once, even traffic-weary Bengalureans didn’t seem to mind the chaos. But that planned celebration soon turned into a catastrophe.

18 hours ago | medium.com | Mehmet Yildiz

Spoiler alert: The “work hard, success will follow” mantra is bollocks. “Work hard and success will follow.”That was my mantra for years. Not just a saying I liked, it became who I was. I wore workaholism like a badge of honour. Thought it was the secret sauce for climbing the career ladder. Oh, was I wrong. My hospitality career consumed me. Days didn’t start with scheduled shifts. They started hours earlier when my brain would fire up with work thoughts. Even on days off? Work brain never switched off.