Shawn Achor Quotes
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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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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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The greatest competitive advantage in our modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.
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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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Happiness is such an incredible advantage in our life. When the human brain is positive, our intelligence rises, we stop diverting resources to think about anxiety.
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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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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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We not only need to work happy, we need to work at being happy.
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Successful people see adversity as a stepping stone rather than a stumbling block.
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We become more successful when we are happier and more positive.
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Happiness is the joy we feel striving after our potential.
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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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Happiness is a mindset for your journey, not the result of your destination.
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Happiness inspires productivity.
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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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It's hard to find happiness after success if the goalposts of success keep changing.
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Beliefs are so powerful because they dictate our efforts and actions.
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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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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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You can study gravity forever without learning how to fly.
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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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Positivity is such a high predicator of success rates.
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When a manager openly expresses his faith in an employee's skill, he doesn't just improve mood and motivation; he actually improves their likelihood of succeeding.
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Just as our view of work affects our real experience of it, so too does our view of leisure. If our mindset conceives of free time, hobby time, or family time as non-productive, then we will, in fact, make it a waste of time.
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Happiness is the precursor to success.
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As we got more interested in time management and productivity, we lost the individual, and with that individual loss, we lost happiness as well. So I think the world has actually been malnourished as we've focused so much on productivity and ignored happiness and meaning to our own detriment.
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Study after study shows that happiness precedes important outcomes and indicators of thriving.
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The absence of disease is not health.
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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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