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 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 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 | Aug 9, 2020 | Attention, Decisions, Emotion, Mind Management
The data on data is mind blowing. Forbes reported: Every Second there are 40,000 google searches (3.5 billion per day), and that’s only google.Every Minute we send 16 million texts, 156 million emails, and take 990,000 tinder swipes.Every...
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