by Madelaine Weiss | Mar 1, 2024 | Emotion, Happiness, Leadership, Love, Stress, Success, Well-Being
Why Should We Give Compliments? A compliment is: “an expression of esteem, respect, affection, or admiration.” Compliments are free, easy to receive and give, and come with many benefits to both receivers and givers. One study, conducted by social psychologist...
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 | Oct 28, 2023 | Emotion, Leadership, Life, Love, Stress, Success, Well-Being, Work
What is a Promise? I just made a promise not to say anything else about something I have already said enough about, for now anyway. 😉 First and foremost, this is a promise I made to myself. I believe all promises are, first and foremost, promises to oneself to keep...
by Madelaine Weiss | Sep 29, 2023 | Emotion, Happiness, Leadership, Mind Mastery, Stress, 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...
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...
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