Emotion - Mind Over Matters

4 Tips (Including New Science) to Prevail Over Negative Thoughts

by Madelaine Weiss | Sep 29, 2023 | Stress, Emotion, Happiness, Leadership, Mind Mastery, Success, Talking

Who Has Negative Thoughts? I am going to guess that everybody has negative thoughts, at some point or another. I’m guessing because studies are fuzzy on the details. There is a widely quoted study, supposedly from the National Science Foundation, suggesting that...

52% Participants Told They Were “Too Nice” at Work; 50% Believe Overlooked For It

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...

Political Polarization: Making as High as 71% of Americans Sicker

by Madelaine Weiss | Aug 27, 2023 | Emotion, Crisis, 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...

98% of Conversations Are Too Much Talk

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...

Happiness: 3 out of 5 Ways Unsubstantiated and What Really Works

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....

We All Make Mistakes: 2 Ways to Prevent and 2 Ways to Fix

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...