by Madelaine Weiss | Mar 21, 2022 | Happiness, Sleeping, Stress, Work
News on Sleep That’s a new one. Elite Sleepers. And, who knew? I thought we were all supposed to sleep 8 hours per night. Mine has been averaging more like 7 and, even though I could find 7-9 hours on the internet, I always felt a little funny about doing 7 not 8. Now...
by Madelaine Weiss | Mar 14, 2022 | Attention, Crisis, Mind Mastery
Focus of a Fish Lately we’ve been hearing that we have lost the ability to focus—that we have the attention spans of fish, only worse. Goldfish average 9 seconds before they lose concentration. We average 8 seconds before we lose ours. The phone beckons after all,...
by Madelaine Weiss | Mar 7, 2022 | Crisis, Emotion, Mind Mastery, Stress
Here’s What Happened Just this week, someone said twice in one exchange, “Enjoy the beautiful day.” Not a one-off; more a pattern of communication for this awkwardly upbeat individual. Toxic Positivity? Considering I had just said that I was feeling heavy...
by Madelaine Weiss | Feb 28, 2022 | Crisis, Mind Mastery, Stress, Work
Heartbroken. That’s how I feel about the Ukrainian crisis. Heartbroken, in awe of the Ukrainians and, when someone here in the U.S. told me he already had his survival kit assembled, I also felt a bit scared. This brings me to something called Locus of Control — for...
by Madelaine Weiss | Feb 21, 2022 | Leadership, Attention, Decisions, Stress, Talking, Time, Work
The Problem with Meetings It’s happening. People are going back to the office. Probably not 5 days per week. Possibly not that ever again. One young professional told me that it will be 2 days per week in-person, mostly for meetings. Then he added that people would be...
by Madelaine Weiss | Feb 14, 2022 | Stress, Love, Mind Mastery, Success, Work
What is St. Valentine’s Day? Is this Love? This adorable dog doesn’t understand, and wants to know why this is happening. I wondered myself how St. Valentine’s Day, sweet as it can be, came to be such a thing. So, I looked it up. First, I found there is no...
by Madelaine Weiss | Feb 7, 2022 | Play, Happiness, Mind Mastery
Are You Playing Wordle? Are you one of the 2.5 million people playing this new word game, Wordle? Wordle is an online 5-letter word game invented by Josh Wardle (Wardle, Wordle, good one). The story is that Josh made up the game during the pandemic because he knew his...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jan 31, 2022 | Decisions, Fitness, Leadership, Mind Mastery, Success
Benefits of Minimal Exercise Wow, only 10 minutes of mild exercise and I’m already smarter than I was 10 minutes ago? Makes you wonder, doesn’t it, why anybody would not just do it. Only, a lot of people just don’t. In fact, according to HealthyPeople.Gov 2020: “More...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jan 24, 2022 | Attention, Emotion, Success
What is Neuroticism? Proud to report that I first began to study personality with my honors thesis advisor, Paul T. Costa, Ph.D, one of the researchers who provided us with the “Big Five” model of personality so widely used today. The 5 Traits are: extraversion (also...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jan 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
Fast versus Slow? To continue the conversation on Decision Making…this study I found the other day seemed to be suggesting that we feel better after we decide if we put a lot in on the front end before we decide. This concerned me because I had been making a...
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