by Madelaine Weiss | Oct 14, 2023 | Emotion, Mind Mastery, Stress, Well-Being, Work
What To Say in Terribly Tender Times? The past week has been so hard for so many that I could not imagine posting any of the usual on what science can tell us about how to live more satisfying and successful lives. Who cares, I thought, what could possibly seem...
by Madelaine Weiss | Sep 24, 2023 | Fitness, Happiness, Stress, Success, Well-Being, Work
What’s Great About Walking? Agency, among other things. Humans love agency. So many clients use the word. Merriam-Webster defines it as “the capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power.” A new study tells us that babies birth their agency very early...
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 | 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...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jun 26, 2023 | Fitness, Sleeping, Stress, Success, Well-Being, Work
Why Nap? Science Daily reported on a study that found regular daytime napping to slow down the brain shrinkage that can happen as we age — “equivalent to 2.6 to 6.5 years of ageing.” That sounds like a very good thing and is only one of a long list of benefits. The...
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