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 | Feb 11, 2020 | Neuroscience
How this Affects You and Your Team and What to Do about It For years I’ve bastardized that children’s rhyme to remember the days in the month: “30 days hath September, April June and November. All the rest of 31—except January and February, which have 80.” For we in...
by Franklin Wordsmith | Apr 19, 2018 | Neuroscience
I’ve had the flu for almost a week, with a buzzy and stuffy head.When I picked up my office phone this morning, there was no dial tone, and the static made me feel as if I was in the center of a bowl of Rice Crispies.It had snowed overnight and there was only a...
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...
