by Madelaine Weiss | Jun 28, 2021 | Decisions, Leadership, Mind Mastery
Caterpillar Groupthink Pine Processionary Caterpillars bring new meaning to the term Groupthink. In Jean-Henry Fabre’s famous experiment, each caterpillar had its head on the butt of the one in front of it, going round and round on the rim of a pot. In the...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jun 21, 2021 | Attention, Mind Mastery, Talking, Work
Communication Struggles? Ever notice how hard it is to stay tuned when people drone on, even if you want to pay attention, which a lot of the time you don’t? The Power Pause Mark Twain may not have known the why but he sure did know the what, when he said: “The...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jun 14, 2021 | Decisions, Love, Mind Management, Money, Stress, Work
Bruce thought his problem was that he didn’t have enough money until I got a hold of him, and then got a hold of himself. In no time at all, he realized 1) no amount of money would get rid of the negativity that had a life of its own inside his head, and 2) that the...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jun 7, 2021 | Attention, Emotion, Life, Mind Mastery, Work
Everyone is saying everyone is suffering burnout. It’s as if you’re nobody if you’re not. Same thing as with haters. You’re nobody if you don’t have any haters. Someone on Clubhouse asked if anyone had any haters to spare; he’d like to buy some, felt he didn’t have...
by Madelaine Weiss | May 28, 2021 | Crisis, Life, Stress
Did you know that the Statue of Liberty gets hit by lightning bolts 600 times a year, and that the torch sways 5 inches side to side. That doesn’t happen to us. Or does it? How many times a year, or a week even, do we feel like we are getting hit by something, at work...
by Madelaine Weiss | May 24, 2021 | Leadership, Mind Mastery, Talking
The International Leadership Industry spends about $50 billion/year teaching people authenticity. What does that even mean? What is Authenticity? Here is partial definition from Merriam Webster: 2: not false or imitation : REAL, ACTUAL an authentic cockney accent...
by Madelaine Weiss | May 17, 2021 | Crisis, Decisions, Stress, Work
Millennial parents are worried about the unhappiness of their kids. Even the kids we might think have it all just waiting for them are suffering in increasing numbers. And this is not new. Rob was about to graduate from college, had gotten accepted to both Harvard and...
by Madelaine Weiss | May 10, 2021 | Attention, Decisions, Life, Mind Mastery, Money, Stress, Time, Work
So Much To Decide Of the 35,000 “remotely conscious” decisions we make every day, 226.7 of them are about food alone. That 226.7 seems low to me and other people I know (I asked them). Then again, we also have to decide: What to wear for which part of what day What...
by Madelaine Weiss | May 3, 2021 | Decisions, Emotion, Life, Love, Stress
One study* finds that participants who either had their pets with them or only imagined their pet were able to generate more life goals and have more confidence in their ability to achieve these goals than participants without pets. This is Rafael Leonardo, who hit...
by Madelaine Weiss | Apr 26, 2021 | Decisions, Life, Mind Mastery, Play, Stress, Time
Deep Time, a $1.5 million research project on human adaptation to 40 days in a damp, dark cave with no clocks, no phones, no contact with outside world—finds 67% of subjects wanted to stay in isolation longer. Staying Connected While Staying In No surprise to me. It’s...
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