The Power of Beliefs
How Strengthening Seven Core Beliefs Predicts Greater Success and a Better Life
Grounded in two decades of research, The Power of Beliefs reveals how the beliefs you hold about the world predict not only your experience of the present, but what happens next. It shows how beliefs change the math about what is possible and probable in our lives—and by changing the math, they change our path. In the same world, people with different beliefs create dramatically different outcomes. Scientifically speaking, beliefs don’t just reflect reality—they bend it.
At a time marked by what Shawn Achor calls the “Great Drift”—a rise in burnout, anxiety, loneliness, and depression—this book identifies the seven core beliefs that most powerfully shape our health, success, and well-being. These beliefs can either cap our potential or take the ceiling off what we are capable of achieving.
Through research-backed strategies tested from Fortune 100 companies to schools and global organizations, The Power of Beliefs shows how to strengthen these core beliefs—expanding what feels possible, improving how we perform, and creating a better life for ourselves and those around us.
Shawn Achor is the NY Times bestselling author of The Happiness Advantage and Big Potential.
Shawn has worked in 50 countries with nearly half the Fortune 100 and everywhere from Camp David and Harvard to shantytowns in Zimbabwe and children’s cancer wards in Boston.
Shawn’s TED talk, The Happy Secret to Better Work, has over 25 million views.
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