by Franklin Wordsmith | Sep 16, 2021 | Communication Silos, Leadership
What a Movie Discussion Group Taught Me I’ve missed watching movies in theaters and talking about them with friends. That made me jump at the chance to join a discussion group. Our first film was the documentary “Misha and the Wolves.” It’s the story of a woman who...
by Franklin Wordsmith | Sep 1, 2020 | Neuroscience
Your Memory IS Playing Tricks on You! When we were kids, my older brother Mark used to say, “You have a great memory. You remember things that never happened!” I used to bristle—and protest—over this. It turns out he was right. Our Flexible Memories It’s called “the...
by Franklin Wordsmith | Mar 12, 2019 | Neuroscience
Why can communication between men and women seem so difficult? A lot of this has to do with the differences in our brains. Here’s one example.Connection Versus FocusThe corpus collosum is a band of nerve fibers that connects your right and left brains. This is 25-40%...
by Franklin Wordsmith | Sep 27, 2017 | Neuroscience
When we were kids, my older brother Mark used to tease me. If an adult would compliment me on being able to remember things, he’d say, “Her memory is so good that she remembers things that never happened!”I’d always bristle at that insult. It turns out he probably was...
by Franklin Wordsmith | Nov 9, 2016 | Neuroscience
Whether or not you’re happy about the results of the 2016 presidential election, it proves two important ideas in neuroscience.We Make Decisions with Our Emotional BrainsWe have three:• Survival brain – where we have three choices: fight, flight or freeze• Emotional...
