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The way we define happiness is the joy you feel striving toward your potential
Shawn Achor
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Shawn Achor
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: March 9
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Waco
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Study after study shows that happiness precedes important outcomes and indicators of thriving.
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Happiness is the joy we feel striving after our potential.
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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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It's hard to find happiness after success if the goalposts of success keep changing.
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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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You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body.
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Happiness is the precursor to success.
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You can study gravity forever without learning how to fly.
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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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The fastest way to disengage an employee is to tell him his work is meaningful only because of the paycheck.
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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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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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You spend money on Internet connection for your employees. Why not spend money on the energy that fuels their brains?
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When we encounter an unexpected challenge of threat the only way to save ourselves is to hold on tight to the people around us and not let go.
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The absence of disease is not health.
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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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Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.
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