Top 90 Shawn Achor Quotes

#1. Researcher Richard Wiseman, in his article "The Luck Factor," says that if you are an apple picker and you keep coming back to the same trees every day, eventually you're going to run out of fruit.

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#2. And only when we choose to believe that we live in a world where challenges can be overcome, our behavior matters, and change is possible can we summon all our drive, energy, and emotional

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#3. put the desired behavior on the path of least resistance,

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#4. Remember, happiness is not just a mood - it's a work ethic.

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#5. Why did some of the impoverished children in Indonesia create a happy playtime with only some sticks and string, while others sat bored and sullen?

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

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#7. Positivity is such a high predicator of success rates.

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#8. 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.

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#9. If we study what is merely average, we will remain merely average.

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#10. Study after study shows that happiness precedes important outcomes and indicators of thriving.

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#11. Even the smallest shots of positivity can give someone a serious competitive edge. Two

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#12. When our brains constantly scan for and focus on the positive, we profit from three of the most important tools available to us: happiness, gratitude, and optimism.

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#13. Success is about more than simple resilience. It's about using that downward momentum to propel ourselves in the opposite direction. It's about capitalizing on setbacks and adversity to become even happier, even more motivated, and even more successful. It's not falling down, it's falling up.

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#14. Technology may make it easier for us to save time, but it also makes it a whole lot easier for us to waste it.

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#15. One of the most powerful forces in human nature is our belief that change is possible.

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#16. The reason some people see the world so differently from others is that the human brain doesn't just take a picture of the external world like a camera; it is constantly interpreting and processing the information it receives.

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#17. The primary one among executives, she says, is an inability to rely on other people: when most executives face a massive challenge or stressor, they try to figure out how to solve the problem alone.

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#18. The Cleveland Clinic Foundation funded a study in which one group of healthy volunteers spent fifteen minutes a day practicing "finger abductions," which are basically like a biceps curl but with one finger.

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#19. We often feel the most stress, or the most emotionally hijacked, when we stare into the void of our jam-packed to-do list, in-box, or desk top. One look at the towering pile of papers looming on our desk, or the 300 unread e-mails, and our feelings of control fly right out the window.

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#20. All it takes is consciously remembering that we need to include others in our reality.

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#21. This is why Sonja Lyubomirsky, a leader in the scientific study of well-being, has written that she prefers the phrase "creation or construction of happiness" to the more popular "pursuit," since "research shows that it's in our power to fashion it for ourselves."13

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#22. 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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#23. Yet hundreds of years ago cartographers from Europe decided that Madrid was above Rio de Janeiro and that Australia should be way "down under." From then on, we have always looked at the world from the same fixed viewpoint.

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#24. What identity are you wearing today?

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#25. As Aristotle put it, to be excellent we cannot simply think or feel excellent, we must act excellently.

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#26. 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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#27. Happiness inspires productivity.

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#28. Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.

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#29. studies have determined that happiness functions as the cause, not just the result, of good health.

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

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#31. Turn on the news, and the majority of airtime is spent on accidents, corruption, murders, abuse. This focus on the negative tricks our brains into believing that this sorry ratio is reality, that most of life is negative.

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#32. Your brain at positive is 31% more productive than your brain at negative, neutral or stressed.

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#33. 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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#34. Amazingly, their belief in their own ability was an even stronger predictor of job performance than the actual level of skill or training they had. More

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#35. The best leaders are the ones who show their true colors not during the banner years but during times of struggle.

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#36. Happiness is not the belief that we don't need to change; it's the realization that we can.

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#37. As St. Francis of Assisi in the thirteenth century said it best, "Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive.

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#38. and for that, every single one of your direct descendants had to overcome dangers, looks, and sickness long enough to be able to have sex.

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#39. happiness is the precursor to success, not merely the result. And that happiness and optimism actually fuel performance and achievement - giving us the competitive edge that I call the Happiness Advantage.

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#40. The absence of disease is not health.

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#41. Psychologists have found that people who watch less TV are actually more accurate judges of life's risks and rewards than those who subject themselves to the tales of crime, tragedy, and death that appear night after night on the ten o'clock news.32

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#42. 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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#43. 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 sense is not common action.

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

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#45. 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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#46. 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.

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#47. the happy doctors made the right diagnosis much faster and exhibited much more creativity.

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#48. By changing the way we perceive ourselves and our work, we can dramatically improve our results. USING

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#49. 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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#50. 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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#51. But the most successful people invest in their friends, peers, and family members to propel themselves forward.

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#52. It's for this reason that, however counterintuitive it may seem, psychologists actually recommend that we fail early and often.

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#53. We are taught to believe that total makeovers of house, body, and psyche are possible all in a 30-minute episode (minus commercials). But in the real world, this all-or-nothing mindset nearly guarantees failure.

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#54. Happiness implies a positive mood in the present and a positive outlook for the future.

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#55. 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 on what we know is often the hardest part.

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#56. even though doctors know better than anyone the importance of exercise and diet, 44 percent of them are overweight.1

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#57. It's hard to find happiness after success if the goalposts of success keep changing.

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#58. As a society, we know very well how to be unwell and miserable and so little about how to thrive.

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#59. 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.

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#60. 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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#61. The typical approach to understanding human behavior has always been to look for the average behavior or outcome.

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#62. So when a colleague stops you in the hallway at work to say hello and ask about your day, the brief interaction actually sparks a continual upward spiral of happiness and its inherent rewards.

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#63. 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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#64. Believing that, for the most part, our actions determine our fates in life can only spur us to work harder; and when we see this hard work pay off, our belief in ourselves only grows stronger.

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#65. We become more successful when we are happier and more positive.

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#66. Luckily, I was in a unique position to conduct this research.

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#67. 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.

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#68. 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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#69. One of the very first things students in intro psychology, statistics, or economics courses learn is how to "clean up the data.

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#70. You spend money on Internet connection for your employees. Why not spend money on the energy that fuels their brains?

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#71. He more you believe in your own ability to success the more likely it is that you will.

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#72. 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.

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#73. only when we choose to believe that we live in a world where challenges can be overcome, our behavior matters, and change is possible can we summon all our drive, energy, and emotional and intellectual resources to make that change happen.

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#74. The mental construction of our daily activities, more than the activity itself, defines our reality.

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#75. You can study gravity forever without learning how to fly.

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#76. When you write down a list of "three good things" that happened that day, your brain will be forced to scan the last 24 hours for potential positives -

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#77. The way we define happiness is the joy you feel striving toward your potential

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#78. The fastest way to disengage an employee is to tell him his work is meaningful only because of the paycheck.

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#79. our fear of consequences is always worse than the consequences themselves - can

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#80. 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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#81. Because our brain's resources are limited, we are left with a choice: to use those finite resources to see only pain, negativity, stress, and uncertainty, or to use those resources to look at things through a lens of gratitude, hope, resilience, optimism, and meaning.

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#82. Happiness is a mindset for your journey, not the result of your destination.

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#83. Barbara Fredrickson, a researcher at the University of North Carolina and perhaps the world's leading expert on the subject, describes the ten most common positive emotions: "joy, gratitude, serenity, interest, hope, pride, amusement, inspiration, awe, and love.

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#84. Fortune 500 companies are still using incentive programs that were proven ineffective almost a generation ago.

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#85. reality" is merely our brain's relative understanding of the world based on where and how we are observing it.

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#86. 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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#87. Happiness is the joy we feel striving after our potential.

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#88. Successful people see adversity as a stepping stone rather than a stumbling block.

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#89. statistical analysis revealed that the training was responsible for the positive effects.

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#90. [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.

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