by Madelaine Weiss | Jul 7, 2024 | Parenting, Decisions, Emotion, Happiness, Stress
What is Stress Spiraling? Stress spiraling is when a parent’s stress triggers a child’s stress, which then loops back to the parent, affecting the entire family’s dynamic. By stress, we mean the physical, emotional, or mental tension in response to...
by Madelaine Weiss | Apr 29, 2024 | Decisions, Leadership, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success, Well-Being, Work
What is Grit? Grit is a psychological trait popularized by researcher Angela Duckworth’s bestseller: Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance. As the title suggests grit, “a combination of passion and perseverance for a singularly important goal—is the hallmark of...
by Madelaine Weiss | Feb 2, 2024 | Attention, Decisions, Leadership, Mind Mastery, Success, Time, Well-Being, Work
Why Do We Love Nature? Some say it’s because landscapes remind us deeply of the lush habitat of the savanna – the favorable environment in which the biggest part of our evolutionary brain development is said to have taken place. There was 2016 research suggesting that...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jan 21, 2024 | Decisions, Emotion, Happiness, Leadership, Stress, Well-Being
What is Clustering? Brains are into networking just like their humans are. Maybe you’ve heard that neurons that fire together wire together, well so do humans and it’s called “clustering.” According to researchers at Yale and Harvard, their model of how neurons...
by Madelaine Weiss | Dec 13, 2023 | Decisions, Emotion, Happiness, Life, Mind Mastery, Success, Well-Being, Work
Why Do People Procrastinate? Just this week a couple of clients were suffering from procrastination. And just this week there was a study reported, on how to stay on task, that I believe can help us to get started on the tasks too. Naturally, I am intrigued by what...
by Madelaine Weiss | Dec 2, 2023 | Decisions, Emotion, Happiness, Love, Stress, Success, Well-Being, Work
What Drives Us? Different people are driven by different things even though we all have the same drivers within us. And I have some examples for you. But first let’s unpack what we even mean by a driver. Harvard Business School professors, Paul Lawrence and Nitin...
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