The Power of a Smile

August 20, 2012 By 2 Comments

 

“You’ll find that life is still worthwhile if you just smile…”

So goes the last line of the popular Charlie Chaplin composition Smile (1954). While it may have been used to generate emotions and profit in the movies at that time, it looks like it has some scientific truth to it.

Smiling helps improve your health and uplift other people’s spirits. Read more about this on Smile and Others Smile with You: Health Benefits, Emotional Contagion, and Mimicry.

 

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Communication Values Article on 2KnowMyself

July 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment

 

Innovativeness, consideration, clarity, and consistency are some values that I think we should put into practice when communicating with someone. Read more about these in my article Communication Values – Reminders from My Toddler, my guest post on 2KnowMyself, the website of one of our longtime readers, M. Farouk Radwan.

 

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