by Madelaine Weiss | Sep 17, 2023 | Emotion, Happiness, Leadership, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success, Uncategorized, Well-Being, Work
What Can Be Wrong with Being Nice? Nothing is wrong with being nice unless we are too nice, and then there really can be problems. Last week, we addressed how normal (and toxic) rudeness has become. But if rudeness is a lack of consideration for other people and...
by Madelaine Weiss | Aug 27, 2023 | Crisis, Emotion, Happiness, Life, Mind Mastery, Success, Talking, Well-Being
What are The Stats on Political Polarization? In Social Science and Medicine, Northeastern University researchers report: Participants reporting increase in polarization had 52-57% higher odds of developing depressive disorders and anxiety disorders. Participants...
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 | Jul 31, 2023 | Emotion, Happiness, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success
What is Happiness? Happiness is something that happens in the brain involving the prefrontal cortex, amygdala, hippocampus, anterior cingulated cortex, and insular cortex, and neurotransmitters such as endorphin, dopamine, serotonin, nor-epinephrine, and melatonin....
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 | May 27, 2023 | Emotion, Happiness, Life, Stress, Success, Well-Being, Work
Are We Happy? How are our minds and our moods? To this question, one new study found that 62.3% of workers, men more than women, are saying they are happier than ever on the job. Great to hear, given how much of people’s lives are devoted to work. But a lot of people...
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