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Happiness is not the belief that we don't need to change; it is the realization that we can.
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#6: The 20-Second Rule
If you want to create a new habit, you have to make it easy to integrate by decreasing the activation energy for the habits you want to implement. In a nutshell: the less time it takes to get done (ideally 20 seconds or less), the more likely you’re going to do it!
The 20-s...
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#7: Social Investment
When over a thousand highly successful professional men and women were interviewed as they approached retirement and asked what had motivated them the most, throughout their careers, overwhelmingly they placed work friendships above both financial gain and individual status.
The mor...
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#4: Falling up
There are 3 types of reaction when we face failure -(1) No change, (2) More bad things happening - Worse than before, and -
(3) Falling Up: Accepting the failure, learning from the mistakes, the failure makes us stronger.
Falling Up is the way to respond to any failur...
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Raise Your Happiness Level
- Meditation: Studies show that after meditation you experience feelings of calm and contentment. 5 minutes of meditation is enough.
- Find something to look forward to.
- Commit conscious acts of kindness.
- Infuse positivity
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"Happiness is not the other side of success. Success does not create happiness. Happiness creates Success."
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#1: The Happiness Advantage
We think the happiness equation looks like this
Work Hard -> Success -> Happiness
But in reality:
Happiness + Positive Mindset -> Success
'Waiting to be happy limits our brain potential for success, whereas cultivating positive positive br...
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5 key ideas
- Happiness is not just a mood - it's work ethic.
- By changing our reaction to every action, we can change our viewpoint to process the world.
- Try to scan for positive - You'll be able to experience happiness, gratitude, and optimism.
- Take Failure as an opportunity to gr...
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"The most successful people often see adversity not as a stumbling block, but as a stepping stone to greatness."
SHAWN ACHOR
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#3: The Tetris Effect
Just like the game of Tetris, you can think that every block that is falling makes your position better or worse than before. If you consider it to be 'Better' then it's The Positive Tetris Effect.
In life, if you go along with the 'Positive Tetris' mindset i.e, everything that is h...
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“The most successful people invest in their friends, peers, and family members to propel themselves forward.”
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"Happiness is not all about yellow smiley faces and rainbows. For me, happiness is the joy we feel after striving our potential."
SHAWN ACHOR
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#5: The Zorro Circle
“The most successful people, in work and in life, are those who have what psychologists call an ‘internal locus of control,’ the belief that their actions have a direct effect on their outcomes.”
By tackling one small challenge at a time—a narrow circle that slowly expands outward
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#2: The Fulcrum and the Lever
"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." --Archimedes
The fulcrum is actually our mindset and the lever is the power or potential. This principle teaches us how to adjust our way of thinking in such a way that it offers u...
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A learner who loves to share wisdom on personal growth, happiness, and success on Deepstash. Topics include motivation, habits, goals, and mindset. Believes that everyone can achieve their dreams with the right attitude and action.
"Happiness Advantage" by Shawn Achor posits that happiness leads to success, not the other way around. It provides strategies for maintaining positivity and increasing happiness to enhance performance and achieve success.
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Psychological immune system & Synthetic happiness
- Natural happiness - what we get when we get what we wanted.
- Synthetic happiness - what we make when we don't get what we wanted. It is as real & enduring as natural happiness because our psychological immune system works best when we are stuck.
Negative Emotions as Motivation
If we can reframe difficult or negative emotions as part of the bigger picture of overall happiness, they can instruct us that a change is needed and we need to act on the negative behavior to create the change that would lead us to further happiness.
This approach sees us embracing adversi...
1. Choose happiness
The most important thing to realize about happiness is that it is not an outcome of current circumstances. Just the opposite, happiness is a choice. Is this easier on some days than others? Absolutely. But if you get caught in the trap of thinking your circumstances need to change be...
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