by Madelaine Weiss | Jul 17, 2022 | Decisions, Eating, Sleeping, Stress, Work
The Stress Situation. Sounds simple. Eat well. Sleep well. Most of us know this. Many don’t do this—and then complain about being stressed. Not everyone is complaining about stress. CNN’s Harry Enten reported on 7/16/22 that, although 77% of respondents think the...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jul 10, 2022 | Fitness, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success
Who is This Immersive Virtual Reality For? No, it is not to help the lazy get the gain without the pain. What is exciting here is the potential for Immersive Virtual Reality (IVR) to help heart and neurological patients, or patients hospitalized or compromised...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jun 24, 2022 | Happiness, Leadership, Mind Mastery, Success, Uncategorized
Not everyone is as rotten as everyone else to the ‘Other’ (people they view as outside of their group). But science says some measure of it is baked into our DNA and that hurting the ‘other’ might actually feel good. According to the researchers out of...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jun 18, 2022 | Decisions, Emotion, Happiness, Leadership, Success
All it takes is 7 seconds for you to be cooked—into someone else’s first impression of you—and some studies suggest it’s really only a tenth of one second. First impressions are quick and hard to change. Studies show that, as time went on, snap judgments about...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jun 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
Not Diet and Exercise? How about Optimism and Service. Wait, you’ll see… About Optimism Bah Humbug, said the psychologist who sent me research on Optimism and Longevity this week. More and more psychologists are complaining about something called “Toxic...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jun 4, 2022 | Success, Attention, Emotion, Leadership, Mind Mastery, Stress
Fear is universal, meaning that we all have it, even if some of what scares us might not scare someone else. Common human fears include: open spaces, closed spaces, heights, flying, insects, snakes, storms, needles, dogs—and, yes, fear of other people (“the most...
by Madelaine Weiss | May 30, 2022 | Decisions, Happiness, Leadership, Mind Mastery, Narcissism, Stress, Success
No, I do not mean that your potential is your problem. I do mean that a promise you have made to yourself—a promise you may not even be aware that you have made that actually limits your potential—can be exactly your problem. What Is a Promise? From Merriam-Webster: A...
by Madelaine Weiss | May 23, 2022 | Emotion, Decisions, Eating, Life, Narcissism, Storytelling Animal, Stress
Lying About Eating How funny, I thought. LOL. Everyone lying about eating. And refreshing too, just to keep it light for a change—if you will pardon the pun, because this study is about eating and weight. Or is it? On second thought, maybe this study is really about...
by Madelaine Weiss | May 15, 2022 | Crisis, Emotion, Life, Love, Mind Mastery, Stress
World Gone Mad? Resilience? Easier said than done? Just when we began to think we were going to finally come out of the darkness of the pandemic into some sun—then came the War on Ukraine. Meanwhile, 32% of Americans are struggling to figure out things like what to...
by Madelaine Weiss | May 1, 2022 | Decisions, Emotion, Life, Love, Stress, Work
New Offerings Humans make decisions all day long. Some big. Some small. Some more life shaping than others. Some more or less hard. And then there are all the many myths and misunderstandings about decision making, rendering decision making that much harder, and...
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