by Madelaine Weiss | Nov 29, 2020 | Attention, Decisions, Mind Mastery, Talking
How do people feel guilty right now? Let us count the ways. I get two: 1) Feeling bad about feeling bad and 2) Feeling bad about feeling good. Feeling Bad About Feeling Bad A lot of people are feeling bad about feeling bad, because there is always someone who has it...
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 | 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...
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