The Hidden Power of Smiling

So it’s Friday today, at least it is where I am. Let’s all pause and smile. We can’t always be about business planning and entrepreneurship and small business. Life matters too.

Amazing facts, all from the video embedded here:

  • The width of a random smile correlates with the length of life;
  • A single smile can give you as much energy as 1,000 bars of chocolate.
  • Children smile on average about 400 times a day. Adults smile on average only about 15.

Those are just quick tidbits of research and advice shared by Ron Gutman in this 7-minute TED talk:

In case you can’t see it here, you can click here for the original on the TED.com site.

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