by Madelaine Weiss | Sep 17, 2023 | Emotion, Happiness, Leadership, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success, Uncategorized, Well-Being, Work
What Can Be Wrong with Being Nice? Nothing is wrong with being nice unless we are too nice, and then there really can be problems. Last week, we addressed how normal (and toxic) rudeness has become. But if rudeness is a lack of consideration for other people and...
by Madelaine Weiss | Sep 10, 2023 | Crisis, Happiness, Life, Mind Mastery, Stress, Well-Being, Work
Why Are We So Rude? “I couldn’t resist. You understand. I just couldn’t help myself.” That’s how one woman explained her rudeness as she closed a door in my face just for fun. Actually, I didn’t understand, any more than some of my clients this week understood why...
by Madelaine Weiss | Sep 2, 2023 | Decisions, Fitness, Happiness, Leadership, Mind Mastery, Sleeping, Stress, Success, Well-Being
Why Should You Make A New Habit? Here’s why: September is Self-Improvement Month, and making new habits is a really great way to improve yourself and your life. Maybe you thought you had ‘til January 1st to upgrade yourself and your life. But the National...
by Madelaine Weiss | Aug 27, 2023 | Crisis, Emotion, Happiness, Life, Mind Mastery, Success, Talking, Well-Being
What are The Stats on Political Polarization? In Social Science and Medicine, Northeastern University researchers report: Participants reporting increase in polarization had 52-57% higher odds of developing depressive disorders and anxiety disorders. Participants...
by Madelaine Weiss | Aug 20, 2023 | Attention, Emotion, Stress, Talking, Well-Being
Why We Talk? Recently I lost a friend. Actually, he was he was a friend of a friend’s son, and I had not even met him, not even by zoom. Email only. But I cherished Josh (not his real name) because he was of a different political persuasion than almost everyone I...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jul 20, 2023 | Decisions, Leadership, Life, Stress, Success, Well-Being, Work
What Does Being Smart Have To Do With Longevity? Researchers found a link between cognitive ability and survival in gray mouse lemurs. I know, we are not lemurs, but there is research on this that applies to us too: Among the thousands of people studied, those in the...
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