Medium “Life Lessons” tag statistics
How busy the Life Lessons tag is, how stories perform there and where they get published. Competition is very high, and the tag is tough for new writers.
Updated Oct 20, 2026 · based on 800 stories from the last 2.2 days
Busier than 86% of 73 tracked tags
15% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 358 stories a day, Life Lessons is busier than 86% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (5,692 followers per daily story) is higher than 18% of tags — fewer readers per story than average.
60% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 15% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 42% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 4.2 minutes to read.
Publications that publish Life Lessons stories
| Publication | Followers | Life Lessons stories (last 2.2d) |
|---|---|---|
| ILLUMINATION | 327K | 92 |
| Write A Catalyst | 213K | 48 |
| Pen With Paper | 22K | 31 |
| Nudge | 858 | 24 |
| Write Your World | 12K | 21 |
| No Time | 14K | 20 |
| Infinite Impulse | 4.8K | 17 |
| Activated Thinker | 40K | 16 |
| Quirky Rants | 6.7K | 16 |
| Purely Hearts | 159 | 12 |
Top Life Lessons stories right now
- “You Said I Could Trust You”
- Do You Love Yourself Enough to Do Nothing?
- The Letter I Still Keep After All These Years
- Love Does Not Look for Loopholes
- Comfort Feels Good, But It Doesn’t Always Make You Grow
- The Pressure to Have Your Life Figured Out by 30 Is Breaking Us
- 9 Uncomfortable Quotes From 9 Inspiring Women
- Why You Should Never Help Someone in the Airport.
- The Feeling of Being a Stranger Somewhere New
- You’re In The Wrong Circle
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the Life Lessons tag on Medium?
- About 358 per day (2,506 per week), based on 800 stories published in the 2.2-day window before our last scan. The tag has 753,757 stories in total.
- Is the Life Lessons tag competitive?
- Competition is very high: it is busier than 86% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 5,692 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in Life Lessons?
- 15% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is tough for newcomers. 60% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.