by Madelaine Weiss | Oct 18, 2021 | Emotion, Life, Mind Mastery, Stress
Depression as an Adaptive Strategy Depression is an adaptive life strategy that looks and feels like anything but adaptive. So, here’s how that works. According to psychiatrists Stevens and Price, whether we have lost an attachment and may feel alone and unloveable,...
by Madelaine Weiss | Sep 27, 2021 | Attention, Decisions, Emotion, Life, Mind Mastery, Stress
A Closer Look at Thriving With so much news on how down people are, have to say it was more than a little surprising to read about all this reported Thriving. CNN said the 59.2% number of Americans thriving was the highest measure ever recorded over the 13 years...
by Madelaine Weiss | Aug 16, 2021 | Crisis, Decisions, Emotion, Fitness, Mind Management, Mismatch, Stress
Human Intelligence Every once in a while, I read something that knocks my socks off. This time it was Annie Murphy Paul’s piece on Intelligence in the New York Times, “How to Think Outside Your Brain.” If I understood correctly, the rough idea is that the human brain...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jun 7, 2021 | Attention, Emotion, Life, Mind Mastery, Work
Everyone is saying everyone is suffering burnout. It’s as if you’re nobody if you’re not. Same thing as with haters. You’re nobody if you don’t have any haters. Someone on Clubhouse asked if anyone had any haters to spare; he’d like to buy some, felt he didn’t have...
by Madelaine Weiss | May 3, 2021 | Decisions, Emotion, Life, Love, Stress
One study* finds that participants who either had their pets with them or only imagined their pet were able to generate more life goals and have more confidence in their ability to achieve these goals than participants without pets. This is Rafael Leonardo, who hit...
by Madelaine Weiss | Mar 29, 2021 | Decisions, Emotion, Mind Mastery, Stress
That’s the goal, but here’s the thing: “I am not who you think I am; I am not who I think I am; I am who I think you think I am ” (Thomas Cooley, Chief Justice of Michigan Supreme Court, 1800s) Sartre called it “the look of the other,” which you can read all about in...
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