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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.

Shawn Achor

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Shawn Achor
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: March 9
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Psychologist
Waco
Texas
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