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...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jan 28, 2023 | Attention, Decisions, Happiness, Leadership
Decision v Struggle People often ask me how they are supposed to know what is the right decision when they feel like they ‘can’t decide’. The error is in the question, as if there is a ‘right decision’ out there somewhere and they just have to figure out what that is....
by Madelaine Weiss | Jan 19, 2023 | Attention, Decisions, Happiness, Stress, Success
CNN Reports… Procrastination hurts—not just the accomplishment of personal and career goals—but in mental health as well. CNN reported on the problems with procrastination just this past week, and I wrote on this myself in August, which I will repost here below....
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