by Madelaine Weiss | Apr 29, 2024 | Decisions, Leadership, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success, Well-Being, Work
What is Grit? Grit is a psychological trait popularized by researcher Angela Duckworth’s bestseller: Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance. As the title suggests grit, “a combination of passion and perseverance for a singularly important goal—is the hallmark of...
by Madelaine Weiss | Apr 1, 2024 | Attention, Life, Stress, Well-Being
What is Stress? One of the biggest mistakes people make is jumping to the conclusion that, because they feel stressed, something bad must be happening. Too much of a good thing can leave people feeling stressed or even just a good thing that is not part of one’s...
by Madelaine Weiss | Mar 1, 2024 | Emotion, Happiness, Leadership, Love, Stress, Success, Well-Being
Why Should We Give Compliments? A compliment is: “an expression of esteem, respect, affection, or admiration.” Compliments are free, easy to receive and give, and come with many benefits to both receivers and givers. One study, conducted by social psychologist...
by Madelaine Weiss | Feb 9, 2024 | Happiness, Money, Stress, Success, Well-Being
Does Money Buy Happiness? First, they say it doesn’t. Then they say it does. Then they say it doesn’t… It’s kind of like the research on whether coffee is good for you, yes and no and yes and no… Or like that saying, “If you don’t like the weather, wait 5...
by Madelaine Weiss | Feb 2, 2024 | Attention, Decisions, Leadership, Mind Mastery, Success, Time, Well-Being, Work
Why Do We Love Nature? Some say it’s because landscapes remind us deeply of the lush habitat of the savanna – the favorable environment in which the biggest part of our evolutionary brain development is said to have taken place. There was 2016 research suggesting that...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jan 21, 2024 | Decisions, Emotion, Happiness, Leadership, Stress, Well-Being
What is Clustering? Brains are into networking just like their humans are. Maybe you’ve heard that neurons that fire together wire together, well so do humans and it’s called “clustering.” According to researchers at Yale and Harvard, their model of how neurons...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jan 13, 2024 | Crisis, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success, Well-Being
What Does Material Global Crisis Mean? Today someone told me that he thought he needed to talk with someone because the state of our world was making it hard for him to sleep. The ‘idiocy’ of people who didn’t get it the way he did wasn’t helping either. Well, of...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jan 4, 2024 | Attention, Emotion, Happiness, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success
Why The January Blahs? The term “Anti-Resolution” counters the usual pressure to make New Year’s Resolutions that hardly anyone keeps, especially during The January Blahs. It has been found that 92% of resolutions fail, 80% of them fail by mid-February, and 64% of us...
by Madelaine Weiss | Dec 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
by Madelaine Weiss | Dec 13, 2023 | Decisions, Emotion, Happiness, Life, Mind Mastery, Success, Well-Being, Work
Why Do People Procrastinate? Just this week a couple of clients were suffering from procrastination. And just this week there was a study reported, on how to stay on task, that I believe can help us to get started on the tasks too. Naturally, I am intrigued by what...
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