by Madelaine Weiss | May 28, 2021 | Crisis, Life, Stress
Did you know that the Statue of Liberty gets hit by lightning bolts 600 times a year, and that the torch sways 5 inches side to side. That doesn’t happen to us. Or does it? How many times a year, or a week even, do we feel like we are getting hit by something, at work...
by Madelaine Weiss | May 10, 2021 | Decisions, Attention, Life, Mind Mastery, Money, Stress, Time, Work
So Much To Decide Of the 35,000 “remotely conscious” decisions we make every day, 226.7 of them are about food alone. That 226.7 seems low to me and other people I know (I asked them). Then again, we also have to decide: What to wear for which part of what day What...
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 | Apr 26, 2021 | Decisions, Life, Mind Mastery, Play, Stress, Time
Deep Time, a $1.5 million research project on human adaptation to 40 days in a damp, dark cave with no clocks, no phones, no contact with outside world—finds 67% of subjects wanted to stay in isolation longer. Staying Connected While Staying In No surprise to me. It’s...
by Madelaine Weiss | Apr 19, 2021 | Attention, Decisions, Life, Mind Mastery
Researchers find that most people add something—rather than take something away—to solve a problem. I never gave that much thought before. Did you? Subtractions But now that I do think about it, I can see that there have been many times when my life improved greatly...
by Madelaine Weiss | Apr 12, 2021 | Decisions, Life, Mind Mastery, Storytelling Animal
Aging Now A Good Thing Did you know that aging is a good thing now? That’s right, a new study found that 71% of American respondents are not only accepting but embracing aging, now more than ever. And, 57% consider the pandemic a wake-up call that has turned...
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