Shawn Achor Quotes
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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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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.
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The absence of disease is not health.
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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 inspires productivity.
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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.
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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 greatest competitive advantage in our modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.
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Positivity is such a high predicator of success rates.
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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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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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One of the most powerful forces in human nature is our belief that change is possible.
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The way we define happiness is the joy you feel striving toward your potential
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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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Beliefs are so powerful because they dictate our efforts and actions.
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Happiness is a mindset for your journey, not the result of your destination.
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Happiness is the joy we feel striving after our 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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It's hard to find happiness after success if the goalposts of success keep changing.
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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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You can study gravity forever without learning how to fly.
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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.