Finding the Right Person to Date: 3 Tips From a Pro

Finding the Right Person to Date: 3 Tips From a Pro

How do you find the right person to date? What are some things you should keep in mind when looking for a serious partner? Finding the right person for a serious relationship is no easy feat. People take years, sometimes decades, to find a successful long-term relationship. But it doesn’t have to take decades of your life if you know how to date effectively. With this in mind, here are three tips for maximizing your chances of finding the right person to spend your life with from dating coach Logan Ury.

Life in a Gulag: Why Resistance Was Futile

Life in a Gulag: Why Resistance Was Futile

What was life in a gulag like? What was the worst part? How effective were the attempts to fight back? Throughout The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn emphasizes that the worst aspect of imprisonment was not the brutal conditions or mistreatment—but its inherent hopelessness. The only thing prisoners could focus on was survival, and this, again, often required them to steal from and abuse others. Continue reading to learn about life in a gulag from Solzhenitsyn’s perspective.

Tony Robbins: Overcoming Self-Limiting Beliefs

Tony Robbins: Overcoming Self-Limiting Beliefs

Do you believe you have what it takes to achieve success in life? How do you get rid of self-limiting beliefs? Everyone has self-limiting beliefs that they’ve built—largely without realizing it—based on their upbringing, personal experiences, and knowledge. These self-limiting beliefs prevent you from setting ambitious goals and living up to your potential. Here’s Tony Robbins’s advice for overcoming self-limiting beliefs.

How Your Stress Mindset Influences Your Stress Response

How Your Stress Mindset Influences Your Stress Response

Do you try to avoid stress, or do you intentionally seek it out? How does your mindset influence your stress response? Everybody gets stressed, but the effect stress has on your life depends on your mindset about it. Because your stress mindset influences your thoughts, goals, and actions related to stress, it determines the consequences of stress in your life. In this article, you’ll learn what a mindset is, why it’s important for transforming stress, and how to change it. 

The 3 Dating Patterns: Maximizer, Romanticizer & Hesitater

The 3 Dating Patterns: Maximizer, Romanticizer & Hesitater

What is your approach to dating? Are you the kind of person who is easily swept off your feet? Or do you approach dating strategically, trying to keep a cool head? According to dating coach Logan Ury, there are three “dating tendencies” or patterns people have: maximizers, romanticizers, and hesitaters. In her book How to Not Die Alone, she explains how each pattern leads to unhappiness—and how to prevent your own pattern from sabotaging your dating life. Keep reading to learn about the three unhealthy dating patterns that people fall into when looking for love.

It’s Okay to Make Mistakes: 4 Ways to Leverage Missteps

It’s Okay to Make Mistakes: 4 Ways to Leverage Missteps

How can you turn mistakes into opportunities? How can you keep mistakes from stopping your progress? Edward B. Burger and Michael Starbird argue that failure is a powerful teaching tool and a vital part of achieving your goal. Don’t view mistakes as hindrances but instead as opportunities for growth. A mistake gives you a specific thing to address: Why was this wrong?  Read more to learn why it’s okay to make mistakes.

“Just Following Orders”: Corruption in the Soviet Gulag System

“Just Following Orders”: Corruption in the Soviet Gulag System

How does the cycle of abuse work in an institution? Is “just following orders” a valid defense? In The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn doesn’t excuse the brutal actions of officers and guards. However, he argues that they were under incredible pressure from the state to participate in violence and believes that most acted out of fear of their leaders, the desire for safety, and the need to conform. Read more to learn about corruption in the Soviet gulag system.

The Top 3 Healthy Ways to Deal With Stress

The Top 3 Healthy Ways to Deal With Stress

What are the best ways to deal with stress? How can you prevent everyday stress from spiraling into anxiety and burnout? Knowing how to cope with stress effectively is an important skill for a fast-paced modern life. If you’re unable to tame your stress, you’ll constantly be living in a fight-or-flight state, which is bad for your mental health. Being chronically stressed is also associated with developing life-threatening conditions. With this in mind, here are three ways you can build resilience to buffer yourself against stress.

The Psychology of Weight Loss: Take Control of Your Weight

The Psychology of Weight Loss: Take Control of Your Weight

Do you want to learn about the psychology of weight loss? What are the key psychological factors that determine weight loss success? Weight loss advice tends to focus on the mechanics of weight loss (e.g., counting calories and exercising). However, weight loss is ultimately all about changing your behavior to achieve a desired goal, and behavior change is in the realm of psychology.  In this article, we’ll talk about the psychological side of weight loss. Specifically, we’ll discuss why motivation isn’t that important when it comes to losing weight, how to form weight loss habits you can stick to, and

Social Alienation in the Soviet Union: A Tool for Repression

Social Alienation in the Soviet Union: A Tool for Repression

What is social alienation? How has it been used as an authoritarian tactic to gain power? One of the ways the Soviet Union controlled its citizens was via social alienation—conditioning them not to care about or connect with each other. This worked to repress dissident movements. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn discusses this tactic in The Gulag Archipelago. Continue reading to learn how the Soviet government exploited social alienation in the general population as well as in the gulags.