by Madelaine Weiss | Jan 24, 2022 | Attention, Emotion, Success
What is Neuroticism? Proud to report that I first began to study personality with my honors thesis advisor, Paul T. Costa, Ph.D, one of the researchers who provided us with the “Big Five” model of personality so widely used today. The 5 Traits are: extraversion (also...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jan 3, 2022 | Attention, Decisions, Happiness, Love, Mind Mastery, Success, Work
‘New Year, New You’? Sounds good only maybe you said that before and, like the majority of people, well you know: 92% of resolutions fail, 80% of them failing by mid-February, and you may be making the same ones over and over again. Why Make Resolutions? Why Set...
by Madelaine Weiss | Dec 30, 2021 | Happiness, Attention, Love, Mind Mastery, Success
Warmest wishes to all for a happy, healthy, prosperous 2022. As for resolutions, consider whether to set one or to set a word of intent instead. I’m doing the latter, and just fyi my word for 2022 is LOVE. Love, Madelaine P.S. There is also the...
by Madelaine Weiss | Dec 20, 2021 | Decisions, Emotion, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success
Decisions Require Emotions If you are one the many who think that decision-making should not be emotional, think again. Beginning with the Psych 101 study of Phineas Gage’s brain, study after study has since shown that—injury to the part of the brain that integrates...
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...
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