by Madelaine Weiss | Jul 20, 2023 | Decisions, Leadership, Life, Stress, Success, Well-Being, Work
What Does Being Smart Have To Do With Longevity? Researchers found a link between cognitive ability and survival in gray mouse lemurs. I know, we are not lemurs, but there is research on this that applies to us too: Among the thousands of people studied, those in the...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jul 10, 2023 | Decisions, Fitness, Happiness, Leadership, Life, Play, Stress, Well-Being
Who Is More Likely to Spend > 1 Hour/Day Outdoors? Americans typically spend ~ 5 hours/week playing outdoors (e.g., exercising, sports, taking a walk or a swim…) Boomers are the most likely to spend more than an hour/day outdoors (41%) contrasted with Gen X’ers...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jun 17, 2023 | Decisions, Eating, Fitness, Happiness, Life, Love, Stress, Success, Talking
When is Social Support Not Constructive? I thought I knew it because I felt it, but now the science affirms it: Sometimes social support can be a wolf in sheep’s clothing. I even called someone on it once and they thought I was nuts. But here it is, on weight loss as...
by Madelaine Weiss | May 27, 2023 | Happiness, Emotion, Life, Stress, Success, Well-Being, Work
Are We Happy? How are our minds and our moods? To this question, one new study found that 62.3% of workers, men more than women, are saying they are happier than ever on the job. Great to hear, given how much of people’s lives are devoted to work. But a lot of people...
by Madelaine Weiss | May 20, 2023 | Well-Being, Decisions, Emotion, Happiness, Life, Love, Stress, Success, Work
Work and Life Quitting More than 47 million people quit their jobs during the great resignation of 2021, and this 23% of the workforce grew by another 38 million in 2022. Since we are talking about work and life, for the latter, let’s look at divorce rates. Although...
by Madelaine Weiss | Mar 11, 2023 | Attention, Decisions, Emotion, Happiness, Leadership, Life, Stress, Success, Well-Being
Everything You Think is Wrong Day is March 15th. The idea is that, because any decision we make on that day will be wrong, we shouldn’t make any decisions at all on that day. Good luck with that. Even getting out of bed in the morning is a decision we make, whether we...
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