by Lynne Franklin Wordsmith | Mar 2, 2021 | Neuroscience
How Your Presence and Words Connect with Others In her book 7-1/2 Lessons About the Brain, Neuroscientist and Professor Lisa Feldman Barrett makes the case that our brains were designed for one purpose: to manage the energy in our bodies to help us survive. She calls...
by Lynne Franklin Wordsmith | Feb 19, 2021 | Neuroscience
What’s Going on in Others’ Brains — and What You Can Do about It When was the last time you needed to have a tough talk with someone? A friend told me it was Saturday night in the grocery store checkout line. The woman behind her was with a tween-age...
by Lynne Franklin Wordsmith | Dec 15, 2020 | Neuroscience
The email subject line read, “A Gift Has Been Purchased for You” followed by “This is Rachel from Stella on Central Street. A Secret Santa purchased a gift for you. Your Secret Santa asked me to email you to find out a good time to deliver it. Please let me know.” ...
by Lynne Franklin Wordsmith | Dec 1, 2020 | Neuroscience
Here Are the Benefits to Your Brain — and the Brains of Everyone Who Sees You This is a scary statistic. Children smile an average of 400 times a day. (Ultrasounds show they also smile in the womb.) Adults who are known to smile a lot do this about 40 to 50...
by Lynne Franklin Wordsmith | Nov 24, 2020 | Culture, Neuroscience
Why Our Brains Hate This “I’ve got a few minutes,” said my boss, the VP of Communications. “Why don’t you come into my office and we’ll do your first annual performance appraisal interview.” It was a statement, not a question. The Performance Review Ambush I hadn’t...
by mmtech | Oct 5, 2020 | Leadership, Neuroscience, Persuasion, Storytelling, Video
Give Up on Getting It “Right” and Be More Human I thought I’d already learned my lesson. My goal was to do a virtual training on practice development techniques for a law firm’s associates. I’d record that and have some proof that I know how to do online learning...
