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Happiness inspires productivity.

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Shawn Achor
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: March 9
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Psychologist
Waco
Texas
Happiness
Inspires
Productivity
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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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Happiness is the precursor to success.
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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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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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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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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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The fastest way to disengage an employee is to tell him his work is meaningful only because of the paycheck.
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The absence of disease is not health.
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The greatest competitive advantage in our modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.
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We not only need to work happy, we need to work at being happy.
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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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Successful people see adversity as a stepping stone rather than a stumbling block.
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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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..the more you believe in your own ability to success the more likely it is that you will.
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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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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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Study after study shows that happiness precedes important outcomes and indicators of thriving.
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