Shawn Achor Quotes - Page 2

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

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

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.

Positivity is such a high predicator of success rates.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

The absence of disease is not health.

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.

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 the joy we feel striving after our potential.

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.

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

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

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

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

You can study gravity forever without learning how to fly.

Happiness inspires productivity.

I've worked with farmers in Zimbabwe who've lost their lands. I've worked with people in Venezuela, under threat of kidnappings, whose external world is unstable. But they have very strong social connections with their family and friends. And as a result, they're able to maintain a greater level of happiness and optimism than I've seen from bankers, consultants, or salespeople who are on the road all the time, who follow jobs separated from their families, and, as a result, find themselves missing out on the happiness that comes from those very connections that they severed.

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.

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