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Shawn Achor

Дата рождения: March 09, 1978 – Waco, Texas, United States

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Shawn Achor is an author and speaker focused on positive psychology, happiness, and human performance. He is best known for The Happiness Advantage, along with Before Happiness and Big Potential. His work helped popularize research on how mindset influences success and well-being, and The Happiness Advantage has been translated into dozens of languages.

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Shawn Achor built his public career at the intersection of positive psychology, education, and workplace performance. Educated at Harvard, where he graduated magna cum laude, he later earned a master’s degree from Harvard Divinity School in Christian and Buddhist ethics and remained at the university for roughly twelve years as a teacher, researcher, proctor, and lecturer in positive psychology. Those years were decisive. Watching high-achieving students struggle under pressure helped lead him to the idea that the usual formula for achievement was backwards: success did not reliably create happiness; rather, happiness, optimism, and social connection could help produce stronger performance in the first place. ((https://www.ted.com/speakers/shawn_achor?utm_source=openai))

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We think we have to be successful, then we’ll be happier. But the real problem is our brains work in the opposite order
-You too can be happy. Really
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What your brain attends to becomes your reality
-What You Need To Do Before Experiencing Happiness
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The biggest misconception of the happiness industry is that happiness is an end, not a means
-Happiness isn’t the Absence of Negative Feelings
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If we could change that lens some incredible things could happen
-Be happy through success or find success through happiness?
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As happiness researchers, we know that, scientifically, happiness is a choice
-Happify
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Eliminating the choices and reducing the activation energy made getting up and going to the gym the default mode
-The Happiness Advantage
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We need to stop trying to be faster alone, and start working to become stronger together
-Big Potential
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Happiness is perhaps the most misunderstood driver of performance
-Success brings happiness, right?
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Don’t turn a blind eye to the world, but focus on the things that are meaningful
-Tune Out Distractions – and Tune into Happiness

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Master productivity, psychology, & happiness

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"This book is another reminder of the inspiring power of Shawn Achor"

Daniel H. Pink

"Shawn Achor is a positive genius who is capable of taking complex academic research and making it come to life in companies and schools across the globe"

Tony Hsieh

"Shawn Achor is funny, self-deprecating, and devastating to my notions of what his field is all about"

Boston Globe

"With enticing stories, fresh studies, contagious enthusiasm, and immensely practical tips, this is Shawn Achor at his best"

Adam Grant

"In Before Happiness, Shawn Achor provides simple, scientifically sound strategies built around three key factors most of us undervalue"

Tony Schwartz

"With cutting-edge research, penetrating insights, and practical examples, Shawn Achor describes a new conception of success"

Gretchen Rubin

"With his characteristic blend of academic rigor and twinkle in the eye, Shawn Achor will change your view of happiness"

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