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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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Shawn Achor
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: March 9
Author
Psychologist
Waco
Texas
Likely
Ability
Success
Believe

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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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The best leaders are the ones who show their true colors not during the banner years but during times of struggle.
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Happiness is the joy we feel striving after our potential.
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The way we define happiness is the joy you feel striving toward your potential
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If we study what is merely average, we will remain merely average.
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Study after study shows that happiness precedes important outcomes and indicators of thriving.
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Spend two minutes a day scanning the world for three new things you're grateful for. And do that for 21 days, The reason why that's powerful is you're training your brain to scan the world in a new pattern, you're scanning for positives, instead of scanning for threats. It's the fastest way of teaching optimism.
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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.
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You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body.
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Habits are like financial capital – forming one today is an investment that will automatically give out returns for years to come.
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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 greatest competitive advantage in our modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.
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Happiness inspires productivity.
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The absence of disease is not health.
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Beliefs are so powerful because they dictate our efforts and actions.
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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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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.
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