by Franklin Wordsmith | Oct 12, 2021 | Leadership, Neuroscience
How My Mother Still Teaches Me about This My mother has Alzheimer’s. I don’t tell you this for sympathy or a donation, but because it sparked my need to better understand kindness. Most people struggle to define kindness—ending up with “I know it when I see it.” After...
by 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 Franklin Wordsmith | Oct 14, 2019 | Neuroscience
I grew up in the communications agency world. That meant tracking how I spent my time at work in 15-minute increments. It also started me on creating monthly and weekly “to do” lists to stay on track.Your Brain on “To Do”We all know the pleasure of crossing off a task...
by Franklin Wordsmith | Feb 20, 2018 | Culture, Neuroscience
It’s one of my favorite phrases: amygdala hijack. That’s when a part of your brain believes that you’re under too much stress, so it shuts down two thirds of your brain: your emotional and your human brain. All you have left is fight, flight or...
