by Madelaine Weiss | Aug 2, 2021 | Attention, Decisions, Leadership, Mind Mastery, Storytelling Animal, Talking, Work
Conversation Situation Less than 2% of conversations end at a point when both people want them to. GASP. Only about 10% of the time did both people wish the conversation had lasted longer. OY. And: The difference between what people wanted and what they got was, “on...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jun 28, 2021 | Decisions, Leadership, Mind Mastery
Caterpillar Groupthink Pine Processionary Caterpillars bring new meaning to the term Groupthink. In Jean-Henry Fabre’s famous experiment, each caterpillar had its head on the butt of the one in front of it, going round and round on the rim of a pot. In the...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jun 21, 2021 | Talking, Attention, Mind Mastery, Work
Communication Struggles? Ever notice how hard it is to stay tuned when people drone on, even if you want to pay attention, which a lot of the time you don’t? The Power Pause Mark Twain may not have known the why but he sure did know the what, when he said: “The...
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 24, 2021 | Leadership, Mind Mastery, Talking
The International Leadership Industry spends about $50 billion/year teaching people authenticity. What does that even mean? What is Authenticity? Here is partial definition from Merriam Webster: 2: not false or imitation : REAL, ACTUAL an authentic cockney accent...
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...
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