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We not only need to work happy, we need to work at being happy.
Shawn Achor
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Shawn Achor
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: March 9
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Waco
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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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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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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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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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You can study gravity forever without learning how to fly.
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Successful people see adversity as a stepping stone rather than a stumbling block.
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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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The greatest competitive advantage in our modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.
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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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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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