by Madelaine Weiss | Nov 29, 2021 | Decisions, Crisis, Happiness, Leadership, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success
Big Decisions on Steroids What used to be just for mid-lifers is now available to everyone—the chronic, if not crippling, weight of decisions about which way to turn in our lives. The great pause of the pandemic gave us all the time and space to do this. People began...
by Madelaine Weiss | Nov 20, 2021 | Attention, Life, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success
Too Much Information Attention is one of the greatest gifts we can give to ourselves and each other. But, of course, we cannot pay attention to ourselves and everyone else in the world all at the same time. In fact, science says that, since our “information speed...
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,...
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