90% of your long-term happiness is predicted not by the external world, but by the way your brain processes the world.
Most companies and schools follow the same formula for success, which is this: ‘If I work harder, I’ll be more successful. And if I’m more successful, then I’ll be happier.’ That undergirds most of our parenting styles, our managing styles, the way that we motivate our behavior. The problem is, it’s scientifically broken and backwards…
If you can raise somebody’s level of positivity in the present, then their brain experiences what we now call a happiness advantage….
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Shawn Achor, in his 12-minute TED talk on happiness and success.
This is a great video, informative and funny too. And in the last 90 seconds or so, he rattles off some potentially life-changing activities. He doesn’t use the phrase “mind hacks” but I think that’s the term some people would use. Great stuff!
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