The Love Paradox

The love paradox is created from two claims. The first is that a great percentage of intimate relationships are based on love. The second claim is that a great percentage of intimate relationships involve romantic compromise. If we consider a romantic compromise something contradictory to love, we get a love paradox. Aaron Ben-Zeev attempts to…

Chaotic Family Environments Increase Depression and Aggression in Children

Children who are raised in a loving and supportive environment are more likely to behave in a loving and supportive way as adults. In the same way, children raised in a negative or hostile environment are more likely to experience similar environments as adults. Syeda Shamama-tus-Sabah tested whether or not the same principles apply to…

How Do You Manage Your Time?

Managing time can be hard and it may seem like we manage our time less than our time is managed for us by other people and circumstances that feel out of our control. If time management seems difficult, it may be easier to start with baby steps. Perhaps managing time at work is impossible, that…

How to Fix a Relationship

We understand that the perfect union between two individuals is not realistic. Two people, no matter how well suited they are for each other, will not become a single entity and there will inevitably be some amount of conflict or lack of harmony. Though these problems arise, if the relationship is one built on love…

Can You Stop Using Your Cell Phone for One Hour?

Remez Sasson suggests that cell phones are becoming not just an extension of our personalities or even our bodies, but small electronic gods that society worships by assigning to them their undivided attention. He challenges us with an experiment to turn our phones off for an hour. The goal, he writes, is not necessarily to…

Turning Self Doubt Into Confidence

Not many things can halt forward movement in life like self doubt. Self doubt can rob a person of their enthusiasm by summoning fears that can dismiss all work and preparation towards a goal as not good enough to ever realize it. By then halting forward momentum, those fears are realized. In order to keep…

6 Lies Your Depression Wants You to Believe (And How to Not Fall Into the Trap)

Psychiatrist Kavetha Sundaramoorthy believes that if a person is aware that the things they tell themselves while depressed are not true, it is easier for that person to ignore those lies and replace them with a helpful truth. In that spirit, this article is dedicated to debunking several lies that may seem convincing when depressed….

Why Chasing Success and Happiness is Making You Unsuccessful and Miserable

After feeling stuck in where he was in life, Alexander Heyne started his own business and began searching for success. He sacrificed many aspects of his personal life in order to achieve success so that he could later use that monetary success to fund important things in life like bills, a family, and dreams of…