Summary of Shawn Achor's The Happiness Advantage

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Get the Summary of Shawn Achor's The Happiness Advantage in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.Original book introduction: In the book that inspired one of the most popular TED Talks of all time, New York Times bestselling author Shawn Achor reveals how rewiring our brain for happiness helps us achieve more in our careers and our relationships and as students, leaders, and parents.

Conventional wisdom holds that once we succeed, we'll be happy; that once we get that great job, win that next promotion, lose those five pounds, happiness will follow. But the science reveals this formula to be backward: Happiness fuels success, not the other way around.

Research shows that happy employees are more productive, more creative, and better problem solvers than their unhappy peers. And positive people are significantly healthier and less stressed and enjoy deeper social interaction than the less positive people around them.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Feb 6, 2021
• ISBN: 9781638153757

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The Happiness Advantage

The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work

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The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work (2010) is a bestselling book by Shawn Achor which posits that happiness is a precursor to success. Achor outlines practical steps that individual workers and team leaders can take to increase the odds of positive outcomes and professional advancement. The book is based on the science of positive psychology, a fairly new field of research that focuses on human potential.

The first of the seven principles of positive psychology is the definition of happiness as the experience of positive emotions—pleasure combined with deeper feelings of meaning and purpose. Happiness has been shown to activate sections of the brain that are responsible for performance. This phenomenon, which puts happy people