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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meaningful past thinking
For two minutes a day, think of one positive experience that's occurred during the past 24 hours. Bullet point each detail you can remember. It works, because the brain can't tell the difference between visualization and actual experience. So you've just doubled the most meaningful experience in your brain.
journey mindset results
Happiness is a mindset for your journey, not the result of your destination.
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.
educational reality views
[It's] the lens through which your brain views the world that shapes your reality. And if we can change the lens, not only can we change your happiness, we can change every single educational and business outcome at the same time.
success stress successful
We become more successful when we are happier and more positive.
motivation stress creativity
Constantly scanning the world for the negative comes with a great cost. It undercuts our creativity, raises our stress levels, and lowers our motivation and ability to accomplish goals.
meaningful creating people
Happiness is a social creature. If you try to pursue it in a vacuum, it's very difficult to sustain it. But as soon as you get people focused on creating meaningful connections in the midst of their work, or increasing the meaning and depth of their relationships outside of work, we find happiness rising in step with that social connection.
motivation inspiration average
If we study what is merely average, we will remain merely average.
disease absence
The absence of disease is not health.
successful opportunity glasses
Focusing on the good isn’t just about overcoming our inner grump to see the glass half full. It’s about opening our minds to the ideas and opportunities that will help us be more productive, effective, and successful at work and in life.
leadership motivation skills
When a manager openly expresses his faith in an employee's skill, he doesn't just improve mood and motivation; he actually improves their likelihood of succeeding.
meaningful way paychecks
The fastest way to disengage an employee is to tell him his work is meaningful only because of the paycheck.
precursor
Happiness is the precursor to success.
finding-happiness ifs hard
It's hard to find happiness after success if the goalposts of success keep changing.