by Madelaine Weiss | Nov 14, 2020 | Attention, Emotion, Mind Mastery, Narcissism
People are getting on each other’s nerves. Not everyone of course. But this pandemic has put a lot of people too close together and a lot of other people too far apart. And it’s making a lot people on either end…well, cranky. The crankiness can really get in the way...
by Madelaine Weiss | Nov 7, 2020 | Crisis, Decisions, Emotion, Mind Mastery, Work
If you are thinking that being micromanaged (aka nagged) is not good for your health, you would be right. Whether it’s work or home, if it’s bad enough, one natural response could be to look for the door. And that is actually happening for a lot of people right now....
by Madelaine Weiss | Oct 31, 2020 | Attention, Decisions, Emotion, Life, Mind Management
Working the Brain So the Brain Works for You ~ Struggling comes from what we call the suffering state. We have compassion for our suffering state but do not want that part of us in charge of the major decisions and direction of our lives. So unless it’s...
by Madelaine Weiss | Oct 24, 2020 | Attention, Mind Management, Play, Work
Epistemic Hunger Probably because I asked too many questions, a professor once told me I had epistemic hunger. If you don’t know what that means, look it up. That’s what people with epistemic hunger do. We, the hungry, look everything up. Knowledge for the sake of...
by Madelaine Weiss | Oct 17, 2020 | Crisis, Decisions, Emotion, Mind Management, Mismatch
High Stress Situation Not even counting all of the other pandemic stress, we have this unbelievably testy election coming up. A lot of people are really cranky with anyone who sees anything different from what they see and believe themselves. How did we get so...
by Madelaine Weiss | Oct 10, 2020 | Emotion, Mind Management, Work
A Whole Different Vibe It’s not always like this but it could be: A committee in my community put together a resident speaker series. One resident not on that committee just this week wrote out of the blue how grateful she was for the impact to the community: “A...
by Madelaine Weiss | Oct 5, 2020 | Attention, Emotion, Life, Mind Management, Work
Who Does It? Some more than others for sure—but humans do lie. At a conference on Lying, everyone was asked to raise their hands if they had lied in the past 2 weeks. I did not raise my hand. Almost everyone else did. Then they asked how many had lied that day, same...
by Madelaine Weiss | Sep 27, 2020 | Decisions, Emotion, Life, Mind Management, Work
The Situation It doesn’t have to be like this—that so many people are unhappy with work. We know that 83% of US workers are suffering from work stress and that there are 120,000 deaths each year related to it. Sometimes working people think they are in the wrong...
by Madelaine Weiss | Sep 20, 2020 | Attention, Decisions, Life, Mind Management, Work
Rest in peace Notorious RBG. That said (and deeply felt)…today I want to tell you about a problem I’m having with something else—an article slamming social media, especially Zoom. Last week I was in a Zoom mtg breakout group that was supposed to discuss the...
by Madelaine Weiss | Sep 13, 2020 | Attention, Crisis, Decisions, Mind Management
What Gets Me. I’m pretty good with uncertainty so that’s not what gets me. I’m guessing that my 2004 flesh eating disease, with 10 trips to the OR, never knowing if I’d be coming out with 1 or 2 arms, or coming out at all, cured me of that....
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