Shawn Achor
Shawn Achor
Shawn Achor is an American happiness researcher, author, and speaker known for his advocacy of positive psychology. He authored The Happiness Advantage and founded GoodThink,Inc. His TEDxBloomington talk "The Happy Secret to Better Work" is one of the 20-most viewed TED talks...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
CountryUnited States of America
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choices brain world
Scientifically, happiness is a choice. It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its finite resources as you process the world.
brain why-not fuel
You spend money on Internet connection for your employees. Why not spend money on the energy that fuels their brains?
thinking anxiety brain
Happiness is such an incredible advantage in our life. When the human brain is positive, our intelligence rises, we stop diverting resources to think about anxiety.
brain modern economy
The greatest competitive advantage in our modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.
brain stressed negative
Your brain at positive is 31% more productive than your brain at negative, neutral or stressed.
creative waiting brain
Waiting to be happy limits our brain's potential for success, whereas cultivating positive brains makes us more motivated, efficient, resilient, creative, and productive, which drives performance upward.
work-out brain being-positive
You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body.
individual-choice giving choices
Happiness is actually an individual choice, even in the midst of negative circumstances. It's not something our employers can give to us, though they can limit and influence that choice.
strong jobs land
I've worked with farmers in Zimbabwe who've lost their lands. I've worked with people in Venezuela, under threat of kidnappings, whose external world is unstable. But they have very strong social connections with their family and friends. And as a result, they're able to maintain a greater level of happiness and optimism than I've seen from bankers, consultants, or salespeople who are on the road all the time, who follow jobs separated from their families, and, as a result, find themselves missing out on the happiness that comes from those very connections that they severed.
loss thinking world
As we got more interested in time management and productivity, we lost the individual, and with that individual loss, we lost happiness as well. So I think the world has actually been malnourished as we've focused so much on productivity and ignored happiness and meaning to our own detriment.
mean successful goal
Most people keep waiting on happiness, putting off happiness until they're successful or until they achieve some goal, which means we limit both happiness and success. That formula doesn't work.
joy strive feels
Happiness is the joy we feel striving after our potential.
finding-happiness ifs hard
It's hard to find happiness after success if the goalposts of success keep changing.
forever study gravity
You can study gravity forever without learning how to fly.