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 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 | Attention, Decisions, 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...
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