"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." --ArchimedesThe 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 us the power to be more fulfilled and successful.We just need to get a long lever (the power) and a fulcrum (mindset) to place (at the right position), and then everything is possible!

#2: The Fulcrum and the Lever

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

<ol><li>Happiness is not just a mood - it's work ethic.</li><li>By changing our reaction to every action, we can change our viewpoint to process the world.</li><li>Try to scan for positive - You'll be able to experience happiness, gratitude, and optimism.</li><li>Take Failure as an opportunity to grow.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">The most successful people, in work and in life, believe that their actions have a direct effect on their outcomes. </li></ol>

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“The most successful people invest in their friends, peers, and family members to propel themselves forward.”

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-second rule teaches us how to replace bad habits with good ones to create happiness in our lives.

#6: The 20-Second Rule

"The most successful people often see adversity not as a stumbling block, but as a stepping stone to greatness."

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 failure which will make us stronger and happier in the long run.

#4: Falling up

“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—we can relearn that our actions do have a direct effect on our outcomes and that we are largely the masters of our own fates.

#5: The Zorro Circle

"Happiness is not all about yellow smiley faces and rainbows. For me, happiness is the joy we feel after striving our potential."

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 happening to you is making you better than before, then you will see more opportunities and become happier and the inverse is also true (The Negative Tetris Effect)

#3: The Tetris Effect

We think the happiness equation looks like thisWork Hard -> Success -> HappinessBut in reality:Happiness + Positive Mindset -> Success'Waiting to be happy limits our brain potential for success, whereas cultivating positive positive brains makes us more motivated, efficient, resilient, creative & productive which drives performance upward. '

#1: The Happiness Advantage

"Happiness is not the other side of success. Success does not create happiness. Happiness creates Success."

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 more social support you have, the happier you are.

#7: Social Investment

<ul><li>Meditation: Studies show that after meditation you experience feelings of calm and contentment. 5 minutes of meditation is enough. </li><li>Find something to look forward to.</li><li>Commit conscious acts of kindness.</li><li>Infuse positivity into your surroundings.</li><li>Exercise.</li><li>Spend money (but not on stuff).</li><li>Exercise a signature strength.</li></ul>

Raise Your Happiness Level

"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.

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • An engaging, deeply researched guide to flourishing in a world of increasing stress and negativity—the inspiration for one of the most popular TED Talks of all time “Powerful [and] charming . . . A book for just about anyone . . . The philosophies in this book are easily the best wire frames to build a happy and successful life.”—Medium Happiness is not the belief that we don’t need to change; it is the realization that we can. Our most commonly held formula for success is broken. Conventional wisdom holds that once we succeed, we’ll be happy; that once we get that great job, win that next promotion, lose those five pounds, happiness will follow. But the science reveals this formula to be backward: Happiness fuels success, not the other way around.   Research shows that happy employees are more productive, more creative, and better problem solvers than their unhappy peers. And positive people are significantly healthier and less stressed and enjoy deeper social interaction than the less positive people around them.   Drawing on original research—including one of the largest studies of happiness ever conducted—and work in boardrooms and classrooms across forty-two countries, Shawn Achor shows us how to rewire our brains for positivity and optimism to reap the happiness advantage in our lives, our careers, and even our health. His strategies include:   • The Tetris Effect: how to retrain our brains to spot patterns of possibility so we can see and seize opportunities all around us • Social Investment: how to earn the dividends of a strong social support network • The Ripple Effect: how to spread positive change within our teams, companies, and families   By turns fascinating, hopeful, and timely, The Happiness Advantage reveals how small shifts in our mind-set and habits can produce big gains at work, at home, and elsewhere.

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Shawn Achor is an American educator, author, and speaker known for his advocacy of positive psychology. He is best known for his research reversing the formula of success leading to happiness—his research shows that happiness in fact leads to success. Achor spent 12 years studying what makes people happy at Harvard University. He later authored The Happiness Advantage and founded the Institute of Positive Research and GoodThinkInc. His TEDx talk "The Happy Secret to Better Work" is one of the 20-most viewed TED talks.

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