Shawn Achor quotes

Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success. (Shawn Achor)

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

Shawn Achor

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.

Shawn Achor

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

Shawn Achor

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

Shawn Achor

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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Positivity is such a high predicator of success rates.

Shawn Achor

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

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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.

Shawn Achor

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.

Shawn Achor

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. (Shawn Achor)

Habits are like financial capital – forming one today is an investment that will automatically give out returns for years to come.

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The greatest competitive advantage in our modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.

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

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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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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.

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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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.

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

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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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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. (Shawn Achor)

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

Shawn Achor

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

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You can study gravity forever without learning how to fly.

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Shawn Achor

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Occupation: American Educator
Born: March 9, 1978
Quotes count: 24

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