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....
by Madelaine Weiss | Sep 6, 2020 | Emotion, Life, Love, Mind Management, Work
What I Did for Love? I nagged my clients, my kids—and anyone else who would let me—to please look at the update of a blockbuster classic, now titled The New One Minute Manager. It’s only about 100 little pages, with lots of white space, so you can...
by Madelaine Weiss | Aug 30, 2020 | Crisis, Decisions, Emotion, Mind Management, Mismatch, Spending
Maybe you wish social status wasn’t a thing. But it is. Always was and, near as I can tell, always could be because humans are so wired for it. Humans are wired to strive for status—and to have a keen eye for who does and doesn’t have it—because back in the day when...
by Madelaine Weiss | Aug 23, 2020 | Emotion, Fitness, Mind Management
Some people are not letting in what would make them happy right now. It may not feel right to be happy right now, when so many are suffering. If this applies, please know that your happiness is not about you, well not just about you anyway. The truth is that whatever...
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