Shawn Achor
You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body.Collection: Positive
Positivity is such a high predicator of success rates.Collection: Success
You've probably noticed how when someone says hello or smiles at you, your automatic reaction is to say hello or smile back.Collection: Smile
Positive and engaged brains are a company's greatest assets. More than time and even more than productivity, people must be happy.Collection: Positive
The greatest competitive advantage in the modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.Collection: Positive
The more we can lower or even eliminate the activation energy for our desired actions, the more we enhance our ability to jump-start positive change.Collection: Positive
Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.Collection: Success
Happiness is a mindset for your journey, not the result of your destination.Collection: Journey
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.Collection: Powerful
Your brain at positive is 31% more productive than your brain at negative, neutral or stressed.Collection: Brain
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.Collection: Motivation
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.Collection: Successful
Habits are like financial capital – forming one today is an investment that will automatically give out returns for years to come.Collection: Years
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.Collection: Creative
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.Collection: Glasses
Happiness is the precursor to success.Collection: Precursor
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.Collection: Meaningful
We become more successful when we are happier and more positive.Collection: Happiness
[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.Collection: Educational
Successful people see adversity as a stepping stone rather than a stumbling block.Collection: Block
Happiness is not the belief that we don't need to change; it's the realization that we can.Collection: Needs
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.Collection: Mean
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.Collection: Quality
The greatest competitive advantage in our modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.Collection: Brain
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.Collection: Struggle
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.Collection: Moving
Research shows you get multiple tasks done faster if you do them one at a time. It also decreases stress and raises happiness.Collection: Stress
Beliefs are so powerful because they dictate our efforts and actions.Collection: Powerful
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.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Real
The way we define happiness is the joy you feel striving toward your potentialCollection: Joy
One of the most powerful forces in human nature is our belief that change is possible.Collection: Powerful
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.Collection: Beautiful
We not only need to work happy, we need to work at being happy.Collection: Needs
Happiness is a social creature. If you try to pursue it in a vacuum, it's very difficult to sustain it. But as soon as you get people focused on creating meaningful connections in the midst of their work, or increasing the meaning and depth of their relationships outside of work, we find happiness rising in step with that social connection.Collection: Meaningful
You can eliminate depression without making someone happy. You can cure anxiety without teaching someone optimism. You can return someone to work without improving their job performance. If all you strive for is diminishing the bad, you'll only attain the average and you'll miss out entirely on the opportunity to exceed the average.Collection: Jobs
..the more you believe in your own ability to success the more likely it is that you will.Collection: Believe
The best leaders are the ones who show their true colors not during the banner years but during times of struggle.Collection: Struggle
If we study what is merely average, we will remain merely average.Collection: Motivation
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.Collection: Letting Go
The absence of disease is not health.Collection: Disease
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.Collection: Leadership
Happiness is actually an individual choice, even in the midst of negative circumstances. It's not something our employers can give to us, though they can limit and influence that choice.Collection: Individual Choice
Happiness is the joy we feel striving after our potential.Collection: Joy
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.Collection: Choices
The idea of investing in the positivity of employees is often low down on companies' priority lists.Collection: Positivity
Study after study shows that happiness precedes important outcomes and indicators of thriving.Collection: Important
The fastest way to disengage an employee is to tell him his work is meaningful only because of the paycheck.Collection: Meaningful
It's hard to find happiness after success if the goalposts of success keep changing.Collection: Finding Happiness
Happiness inspires productivity.Collection: Inspire