Shawn Achor Quotes

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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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  Powerful, Teaching, Grateful

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• Happiness is a mindset for your journey, not the result of your destination.

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  Journey, Mindset, Results

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• Your brain at positive is 31% more productive than your brain at negative, neutral or stressed.

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  Brain, Stressed, Negative

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• You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body.

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  Inspirational, Fitness, Work Out

  FaceBook post by Shawn Achor from May 23, 2014

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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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  Motivation, Stress, Creativity

  "The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work". Book by Shawn Achor, 2010.

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• Happiness is the precursor to success.

  Shawn Achor

  Precursor

  Shawn Achor (2011). “The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology that Fuel Success and Performance at Work”, p.3, Random House

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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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  Years, Giving, Today

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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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  Impact, Decision, Levels

  FaceBook post by Shawn Achor from Sep 26, 2016

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• For two minutes a day, think of one positive experience that's occurred during the past 24 hours. Bullet point each detail you can remember. It works, because the brain can't tell the difference between visualization and actual experience. So you've just doubled the most meaningful experience in your brain.

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  Meaningful, Thinking, Past

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• Waiting to be happy limits our brain's potential for success, whereas cultivating positive brains makes us more motivated, efficient, resilient, creative, and productive, which drives performance upward.

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  Creative, Waiting, Brain

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• The contents of the glass don’t matter; what’s more important is to realize there’s a pitcher of water nearby. In other words, we have the capacity to refill the glass, or to change our outlook.

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  Glasses, Water, Important

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• We become more successful when we are happier and more positive.

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  Happiness, Success, Stress

  "The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work". Book by Shawn Achor, September 14, 2010.

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• [It's] the lens through which your brain views the world that shapes your reality. And if we can change the lens, not only can we change your happiness, we can change every single educational and business outcome at the same time.

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  Educational, Reality, Views

  "The happy secret to better work". TEDxBloomington Talk, www.ted.com. May 2011.

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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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  Successful, Opportunity, Glasses

  Shawn Achor (2011). “The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology that Fuel Success and Performance at Work”, p.104, Random House

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• Successful people see adversity as a stepping stone rather than a stumbling block.

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  Block, Adversity, Successful

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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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  Mean, Successful, Goal

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• Happiness is not the belief that we don't need to change; it's the realization that we can.

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  Needs, Realization, Belief

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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.

  Shawn Achor

  Quality, Outcomes, Habit

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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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.

  Shawn Achor

  Struggle, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• The greatest competitive advantage in our modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.

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  Brain, Modern, Economy

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• Each one of us is like that butterfly the Butterfly Effect . And each tiny move toward a more positive mindset can send ripples of positivity through our organizations our families and our communities.

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  Moving, Butterfly, Positivity

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• Research shows you get multiple tasks done faster if you do them one at a time. It also decreases stress and raises happiness.

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  Stress, Tasks, Done

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• Beliefs are so powerful because they dictate our efforts and actions.

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  Powerful, Effort, Belief

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• It's hard to find happiness after success if the goalposts of success keep changing.

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  Finding Happiness, Hard, Ifs

  "5 Ways to Turn Happiness Into An Advantage" by Shawn Achor, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2011.

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• Study after study shows that happiness precedes important outcomes and indicators of thriving.

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  Important, Outcomes, Study

  Shawn Achor (2011). “The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology that Fuel Success and Performance at Work”, p.42, Random House

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