Welcome to our collection of quotes by Shawn Achor
Wikipedia Summary for Shawn Achor
Shawn Achor (born March 9, 1978) is an American author, and speaker known for his advocacy of positive psychology. He authored The Happiness Advantage and founded GoodThink, Inc.
Positive vacations have a significant effect upon energy and stress.
Not every vacation is equal. And theory -- the idea that vacations should increase happiness -- doesn't always translate to reality.
Smart vacations lead to greater happiness and energy at work and, therefore, greater productivity, intelligence, and resilience.
We know that recognition and intrinsic motivation are important to our success, but the key is finding ways to effectively operationalize them.
Joy is something you can experience even when life is not pleasurable. Even in the midst of a long run, when your legs are burning, you can still feel joy.
If you've ever tried to start up the habit of early-morning exercise, you have probably encountered how easy it is to get derailed by too much choice.
I'd love it if every company could give raises to the average worker for doing good work.
The research says that being successful doesn't automatically make you happier, but being happier -- being more positive -- makes you more successful.
Positive and engaged brains are a company's greatest assets. More than time and even more than productivity, people must be happy.
Taking a vacation can actually increase the likelihood of getting a raise or a promotion.
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.
Too many people limit their happiness and success by assuming that taking time off from work will send a negative message to their manager and slow their career advancement.
The greatest competitive advantage in our modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.
The greatest competitive advantage in the modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.
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.
Joy makes us want to invest more deeply in the people around us. It makes us want to learn more about our communities. It makes us want to be able to find ways of being able to make this a better external world for all of us.
It's hard to find happiness after success if the goalposts of success keep changing.
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.
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.
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.
Study after study shows that happiness precedes important outcomes and indicators of thriving.
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.
Happiness is not the belief that we don't need to change; it's the realization that we can.
The fastest way to disengage an employee is to tell him his work is meaningful only because of the paycheck.
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.
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.
The best leaders are the ones who show their true colors not during the banner years but during times of struggle.
Traveling the world can be an amazing -- and even better -- a happy experience. You just have to do it the right way.
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.
To be truly engaged at work, your brain needs periodic breaks to gain fresh perspective and energy.
Happiness is the precursor to success.
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.
For me, meditation's hard because I feel like I have developed 'cultural attention-deficit disorder,' where, because we have so much stimulation, I feel like I have trouble focusing on things for very long. So when I try to meditate, my brain gets so scattered.
When people exercise, we talk about endorphins, but endorphins are just short-term. The reason why exercise is valuable is it trains your brain to believe, 'My behavior matters,' which is optimism.
Successful people see adversity as a stepping stone rather than a stumbling block.
Turnover can be one of the most expensive problems at a company.
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.
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.
Happiness is a mindset for your journey, not the result of your destination.
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.
You've probably noticed how when someone says hello or smiles at you, your automatic reaction is to say hello or smile back.
You spend money on Internet connection for your employees. Why not spend money on the energy that fuels their brains?
The idea of investing in the positivity of employees is often low down on companies' priority lists.
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.
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.
We not only need to work happy, we need to work at being happy.
Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.
Positivity is such a high predicator of success rates.
You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body.
Research shows you get multiple tasks done faster if you do them one at a time. It also decreases stress and raises happiness.