I have a serious question for you: are you someone who plays to win, or who plays to avoid losing? Most folks would say that, yes, they absolutely play to win. Even if they’re not the sort of min/maxing, loophole-finding, cutthroat gamesman who makes board game night a flaming hellscape, people will generally say that…
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Overcoming Helplessness
One of the most frustrating parts of trying to build an amazing life — especially when you’re working on your dating and social skills — is the feeling of helplessness. There’s this very real and very palpable sense of feeling like you’re stuck, unable to make any progress. You’ve been working as hard as you…
5 Harsh Truths About Dating (And What You Can Do About It)
I want to tell you some harsh truths about dating. Truths that, when you understand them, will explain why dating can be a nightmare. However, once you’re able to face those truths, you’ll find that dating will actually be simpler and more enjoyable. And the key to understanding them starts with gambling and religious pigeons….
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How To Reset Your Love Life
It’s something of a truism that dating can be exhausting. A lot of times, you spend weeks, months, even years feeling like you’re beating your head into a brick wall. And to make matters worse, for a lot of people, it can feel like they’re stuck in the same routine. They want different results, but it…
The 5 Steps To Upgrading Your Life
During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a lot of talk about how this was an opportunity to do things differently. Now that everyone was in lockdown, they had absolutely nothing else to do but work on themselves. Sure they had to balance work, relationships, trying to meet basic needs without catching…
How Men Can Stop Feeling Unwanted
Being a man, particularly a straight, cisgendered man, can be a perverse paradox at times. Society caters to us in almost every way imaginable. Even in 2021, as we strive towards greater social and sexual equity for people of different genders and sexualities, straight cis men are very much at the top of the social…