by Madelaine Weiss | Nov 8, 2021 | Attention, Mind Mastery, Success, Work
What is Flow? Most of us know what Flow feels like. In the words of recently deceased Csikszentmihalyi, who wrote Flow: The Psychology of Happiness: Concentration is so intense that no attention is left over to think about anything irrelevant or to worry about...
by Madelaine Weiss | Nov 1, 2021 | Emotion, Mind Mastery, Narcissism, Stress, Success
What is Impostor Syndrome? Impostor Syndrome is the idea that you got where you are by luck and it is only a matter of time before everyone finds out that you’re a fraud. Oversimplified for sure, but I do notice something like this a lot in my work. Even though these...
by Madelaine Weiss | Oct 25, 2021 | Decisions, Mind Mastery, Stress
Why So Many Startups? Startups? Well, a lot of people are leaving their jobs: 4.3 million in August, 3% of the workforce. “The Great Resignation.” There is much debate on why people don’t want the jobs they used to have, but here’s what I am seeing. Think...
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 | Sep 20, 2021 | Attention, Life, Love, Mind Mastery
What Does Parasocial Relationship Even Mean? Honestly don’t know how I am just learning about this now. The term “Parasocial Relationships” goes back to the 1950’s, when Donald Horton and R. Richard Wohl described the television obsessed as forming the...
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