Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work | TED Talk | TED.com: "In this fast-moving and entertaining talk, psychologist Shawn Achor argues that actually happiness inspires productivity. (Filmed at TEDxBloomington.)"
"If happiness is on the opposite side of success, your brain never gets there. What we've done is pushed happiness over the cognitive horizon..."
"...what that question assumes is that our external world is predictive of our happiness levels, when in reality, if I know everything about your external world, I can only predict 10% of your long term happiness. 90% of your long term happiness [is predicted by] the way your brain processes the world."
Why are some people stuck in their ways? A Q&A with Shawn Achor | ideas.ted.com: "“We think we have to be successful, then we’ll be happier. But the real problem is our brains work in the opposite order,” said Shawn Achor in his charming, immensely popular TED Talk from TEDxBloomington, “The happy secret to better work.” Achor is the CEO of consulting firm Good Think, which conducts research on positive psychology and helps people apply it to be happier and more effective at work...
Can anyone make a change for the better? Does positive psychology apply to everyone?
Universally we found that people, cross culture, cross industry, cross country, have actually been able to make these changes at any point in their life, from four years old up to 84 years of age."
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