Quotes by Shawn Achor

About Shawn Achor:

Shawn Achor is an American corporate trainer, author, and speaker known for his advocacy of positive psychology. He authored The Happiness Advantage and founded the Institute of Positive Research and GoodThinkInc. His TEDxBloomington talk "The Happy Secret to Better Work" is one of the 20-most viewed TED talks.
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Because in life, knowledge is only part of the battle. WITHOUT ACTION, KNOWLEDGE IS OFTEN MEANINGLESS. As Aristotle put it, to be excellent we cannot simply think or feel excellent, we must act excellently. Yet the action required to follow through o...

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The idea of investing in the positivity of employees is often low down on companies' priority lists.

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As Harvard Business School professor Peter Bregman advises, 'Don't write a book, write a page...Don't expect to be a great manager in your first six months, just try to set expectations well.

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Here was someone who had dismissed most of what I had just been saying as too obvious to even discuss; yet apparently it wasn't obvious enough. I realized that he was the living embodiment of one of the greatest paradoxes of human behavior: Common se...

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You can study gravity forever without learning how to fly.

Shawn Achor

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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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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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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Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and 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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You spend money on Internet connection for your employees. Why not spend money on the energy that fuels their brains?

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Positivity is such a high predicator of success rates.

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

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We not only need to work happy, we need to work at being happy.

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Author Bio

  • NameShawn Achor
  • DescriptionAmerican educator and author