Shawn Achor Quotes
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Happiness inspires productivity.
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So many people are struggling to create happiness while their brain is inundated by noise. If your brain is receiving too much information, it automatically thinks you're under threat and scans the world for the negative first. Because the brain is limited, whatever you attend to first becomes your reality.
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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.
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Success does not mean happiness. Check out any celebrity magazine to look for examples to disabuse you of thinking that being beautiful, successful or rich will make you happy.
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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.
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The absence of disease is not health.
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By changing our mindset and habits, we can actually dramatically change the course of life, improve intelligence, productivity, improve the quality of our lives, and improve every single education and business outcome.
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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.
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Happiness is a mindset for your journey, not the result of your destination.
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The greatest competitive advantage in our modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.
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One of the most powerful forces in human nature is our belief that change is possible.
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We not only need to work happy, we need to work at being happy.
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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.
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Positivity is such a high predicator of success rates.
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We become more successful when we are happier and more positive.
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You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body.
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Happiness is the joy we feel striving after our potential.
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Beliefs are so powerful because they dictate our efforts and actions.
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The way we define happiness is the joy you feel striving toward your potential
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The idea of investing in the positivity of employees is often low down on companies' priority lists.
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..the more you believe in your own ability to success the more likely it is that you will.
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It's hard to find happiness after success if the goalposts of success keep changing.
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You can eliminate depression without making someone happy. You can cure anxiety without teaching someone optimism. You can return someone to work without improving their job performance. If all you strive for is diminishing the bad, you'll only attain the average and you'll miss out entirely on the opportunity to exceed the average.
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You can study gravity forever without learning how to fly.