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
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.
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.
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.
meaningful way paychecks
The fastest way to disengage an employee is to tell him his work is meaningful only because of the paycheck.
inspire productivity
Happiness inspires productivity.