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Shawn Achor
American
Educator
Happiness
Happy
People
Positive
Work
You
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Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.
Shawn Achor
Happiness
Success
Daily
Our
Impact
Both
Habits
Huge
Huge Impact
Decisions
Levels
Positivity is such a high predicator of success rates.
Shawn Achor
Success
Positivity
High
Rates
Turnover can be one of the most expensive problems at a company.
Shawn Achor
Problems
Most
Expensive
Turnover
Company
You've probably noticed how when someone says hello or smiles at you, your automatic reaction is to say hello or smile back.
Shawn Achor
Smile
You
Back
Say
Says
Someone
Reaction
Smiles
How
Automatic
Noticed
Your
Hello
Taking a vacation can actually increase the likelihood of getting a raise or a promotion.
Shawn Achor
Increase
Promotion
Taking
Likelihood
Getting
Actually
Vacation
Raise
Too many people limit their happiness and success by assuming that taking time off from work will send a negative message to their manager and slow their career advancement.
Shawn Achor
Happiness
Success
Work
Time
People
Too Many People
Negative
Will
Slow
Too
Assuming
Advancement
Taking
Taking Time
Message
Limit
Off
Send
Manager
Many
Career
To be truly engaged at work, your brain needs periodic breaks to gain fresh perspective and energy.
Shawn Achor
Work
Needs
Perspective
Energy
Periodic
Fresh
Truly
Brain
Gain
Breaks
Engaged
Your
The idea of investing in the positivity of employees is often low down on companies' priority lists.
Shawn Achor
Employees
Down
Positivity
Investing
Idea
Priority
Often
Lists
Low
Companies
You spend money on Internet connection for your employees. Why not spend money on the energy that fuels their brains?
Shawn Achor
You
Money
Internet
Employees
Energy
Spend
Brains
Fuels
Your
Connection
Why
Why Not
For me, meditation's hard because I feel like I have developed 'cultural attention-deficit disorder,' where, because we have so much stimulation, I feel like I have trouble focusing on things for very long. So when I try to meditate, my brain gets so scattered.
Shawn Achor
Me
Try
Long
Trouble
Meditation
Focusing
Scattered
Developed
Feel
Like
Because
Stimulation
Cultural
Brain
Very
Gets
Where
Much
Disorder
Hard
Things
Meditate
Joy is something you can experience even when life is not pleasurable. Even in the midst of a long run, when your legs are burning, you can still feel joy.
Shawn Achor
Life
You
Experience
Joy
Long
Pleasurable
Run
Something
Long Run
Feel
Still
Legs
Burning
Midst
Your
Even
What we've been finding is people are afraid of happiness. They're afraid of happiness because they think we'll stagnate or we'll be blind: that if I'm happy now, I won't keep fighting as hard. If I'm happy now, I won't push as hard to make a better world. That's what pleasure does. Joy does the exact opposite.
Shawn Achor
Happiness
Happy
People
Joy
World
Better
Better World
Fighting
Think
Pleasure
Exact
Exact Opposite
Finding
Push
Blind
Make
Because
Does
Opposite
Been
Afraid
Hard
Keep
Now
Joy makes us want to invest more deeply in the people around us. It makes us want to learn more about our communities. It makes us want to be able to find ways of being able to make this a better external world for all of us.
Shawn Achor
People
Joy
World
Better
Our
Ways
Find
Able
About
More
Invest
Make
Learn
Around
Makes
Being
Want
Us
Communities
Deeply
External
External World
We know that recognition and intrinsic motivation are important to our success, but the key is finding ways to effectively operationalize them.
Shawn Achor
Success
Key
Important
Our
Ways
Recognition
Intrinsic
Finding
Know
Motivation
Effectively
Them
Not every vacation is equal. And theory - the idea that vacations should increase happiness - doesn't always translate to reality.
Shawn Achor
Happiness
Reality
Every
Increase
Idea
Equal
Always
Translate
Should
Theory
Vacation
Vacations
Traveling the world can be an amazing - and even better - a happy experience. You just have to do it the right way.
Shawn Achor
You
Happy
Experience
World
Better
Amazing
Way
Right Way
Just
Happy Experience
Even
Traveling
Right
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