Crisis - Mind Over Matters

7 Brave Ways to Face AI Anxiety: Who’s in Charge?

by Madelaine Weiss | Nov 8, 2026 | Crisis, Decisions, Mind Mastery, Storytelling Animal, Stress, Success, Uncategorized, Well-Being

Will artificial intelligence take our jobs? Make us less capable of thinking for ourselves? Replace human relationships? And what kind of world will our children and grandchildren inherit? These are reasonable questions. And with artificial intelligence developing so...

3 Powerful Reasons to Cry — and Why We Won’t

by Madelaine Weiss | Mar 10, 2026 | Crisis, Emotion, Life, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success, Well-Being

What Happened? The other night I watched a strong and wise man tear up in the middle of his remarks. And I completely fell apart. It felt like something that had been building for a long time, with everything going on in the world — the noise, the uncertainty, the...

3 Ways to Stand Down for National Random Acts of Kindness Day

by Madelaine Weiss | Feb 18, 2026 | Crisis, Decisions, Emotion, Leadership, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success

Kindness As Kind. Kindness As Mean? National Random Acts of Kindness Day is February 17th. A couple of weeks ago in January, we had that great big snowstorm. The pre-storm line at Trader Joe’s was a maze. I could see the end of it, by the cash register, but not the...

5 Powerful Truths About Loving People Who See the World Differently

by Madelaine Weiss | Jul 28, 2025 | Crisis, Emotion, Life, Love, Mind Mastery, Stress, Talking, Well-Being

What do you do when the people you love most seem blind to what matters most to you? I have written before on the intensifying differences in our lives today. And I write again because I find one of the hardest emotional challenges in life—when we find ourselves on...

3rd of Top 5 Material Global Crisis Risks for 2024: Societal and Political Polarization

by Madelaine Weiss | Jan 13, 2024 | Crisis, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success, Well-Being

What Does Material Global Crisis Mean? Today someone told me that he thought he needed to talk with someone because the state of our world was making it hard for him to sleep. The ‘idiocy’ of people who didn’t get it the way he did wasn’t helping either. Well, of...

73% of Participants Consider Rude Behavior “Not Unusual”; Up from 61% in 2012

by Madelaine Weiss | Sep 10, 2023 | Crisis, Happiness, Life, Mind Mastery, Stress, Well-Being, Work

Why Are We So Rude? “I couldn’t resist. You understand. I just couldn’t help myself.” That’s how one woman explained her rudeness as she closed a door in my face just for fun. Actually, I didn’t understand, any more than some of my clients this week understood why...