by Madelaine Weiss | Aug 20, 2023 | Attention, Emotion, Stress, Talking, Well-Being
Why We Talk? Recently I lost a friend. Actually, he was he was a friend of a friend’s son, and I had not even met him, not even by zoom. Email only. But I cherished Josh (not his real name) because he was of a different political persuasion than almost everyone I...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jun 12, 2023 | Attention, Decisions, Emotion, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success
My Amazing Mistake I just made an amazing mistake—in an art museum. The docent asked us to think about what in our own experience draws us to any one of the three pieces she specified. I was already captivated by the one to the right of those three and said, “That one...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jun 5, 2023 | Attention, Stress, Success, Talking, Time, Well-Being, Work
What About Information? Information is everywhere: ∼6 × 1080 bits of information in the observable universe. That would be 6 times 71 million zeroes bits, if you can fathom that. Out of this, the senses pluck and send 11,000,000 bits per second to the brain. And,...
by Madelaine Weiss | Mar 27, 2023 | Attention, Emotion, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success, Well-Being
Why Does Your Ego Care What Other People Think? Easy. Let’s begin with an answer to this question from an earlier post: Well, for one thing, it is about our very survival! That’s why we care. Back in the day, millions of years ago when the modern human brain was...
by Madelaine Weiss | Mar 11, 2023 | Attention, Decisions, Emotion, Happiness, Leadership, Life, Stress, Success, Well-Being
Everything You Think is Wrong Day is March 15th. The idea is that, because any decision we make on that day will be wrong, we shouldn’t make any decisions at all on that day. Good luck with that. Even getting out of bed in the morning is a decision we make, whether we...
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