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Kindness v Cynicism? Study Finds We Help Out 79% of The Time

Kindness v Cynicism? Study Finds We Help Out 79% of The Time

by Madelaine Weiss | May 7, 2023 | Emotion, Happiness, Leadership, Stress, Well-Being

Human Kindness In this study, small acts of kindness happened every 2 minutes, 79% said yes to requests for help and, on the rare occasion that a request for help was denied, there was more often than not an explanation to go with it. To support this finding, this...
Smile Makes Humans Look Younger and Thinner—And Why You Might Care

Smile Makes Humans Look Younger and Thinner—And Why You Might Care

by Madelaine Weiss | Apr 16, 2023 | Emotion, Happiness, Leadership, Stress, Success, Well-Being, Work

Why Smile? Well, not everyone cares about looking younger and thinner. But even those who don’t may care that appearing younger and thinner affects how they are perceived and, hence, their satisfaction and success in work and life. Studies Show… ChatGPT just...
How The Inner Critic is Like Gravity and We Can Fly Anyway

How The Inner Critic is Like Gravity and We Can Fly Anyway

by Madelaine Weiss | Apr 9, 2023 | Emotion, Happiness, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success, Well-Being

The Inner Critic and Gravity For years, people have been telling me about the negative thoughts in their heads. Just this week, a client and I noticed together that it tends to flare up every time she is about to take a leap forward in her life, with something like:...
2 Tips to Overcome the Tyranny of The Ego—To Advance and Succeed in Work and Life

2 Tips to Overcome the Tyranny of The Ego—To Advance and Succeed in Work and Life

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...
2 Ideas for Deciding on ‘Everything You Think is Wrong Day’

2 Ideas for Deciding on ‘Everything You Think is Wrong Day’

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...
ChatGPT on Social Comparison: 2 Examples

ChatGPT on Social Comparison: 2 Examples

by Madelaine Weiss | Feb 6, 2023 | Emotion, Happiness, Love, Stress, Success, Uncategorized

What is Social Comparison? A colleague commented on my recent Procrastination post that Procrastination is not his problem, but Social Comparison is. I took this as a call to write something on Social Comparison—and also as an opportunity to play with ChatGPT. I know,...
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