by Madelaine Weiss | Jan 4, 2024 | Attention, Emotion, Happiness, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success
Why The January Blahs? The term “Anti-Resolution” counters the usual pressure to make New Year’s Resolutions that hardly anyone keeps, especially during The January Blahs. It has been found that 92% of resolutions fail, 80% of them fail by mid-February, and 64% of us...
by Madelaine Weiss | Nov 12, 2023 | Attention, Emotion, Happiness, Mind Mastery, Stress, Well-Being
What are Intrusive Thoughts? I heard that there was a shortage of social workers in Israel, so I asked my dear Israeli friend and colleague how I could help. By the end of this conversation, we had settled on a webinar on Intrusive Thinking, so I began to read. This...
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,...
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