Paul Mountjoy | WASHINGTON September 18, 2013 Ask anyone what they want in life, and the answer is invariably: “To be happy.” However, the question remains how to achieve this lofty goal and what tools, skills and strategies are necessary to fulfill the goal of personal happiness. This is where best-selling author of The Happiness Advantage and Before…
Ed Frauenheim | September 12, 2013 Happiness guru Shawn Achor is past preaching to the choir. Now he’s going after the skeptics. Achor’s first book, “The Happiness Advantage,” published in 2010, marshaled the latest evidence that positive thinking produces better business results. And his tool kit of happiness habits — such as naming three “gratitudes” a day…
Dan Schawbel | 9 September 2013 I recently spoke to Shawn Achor, who is the author of the new book, Before Happiness: The 5 Hidden Keys to Achieving Success, Spreading Happiness, and Sustaining Positive Change. Shawn is the winner of over a dozen distinguished teaching awards at Harvard University, where he delivered lectures on positive psychology in the…
Amanda Baltazar | August 27, 2013 “If you’re happy in your job, you’re less likely to quit,” says Shawn Achor, one of the designers and teachers of Harvard University’s Happiness course, and author of Before Happiness, to be published this month. Most of us think that if we’re successful at work, we’ll be happy, but…
Kathy Caprino | 8/26/2013 If you conduct a Google search for “great career,” you’ll find over 1.4 million hits – articles, interviews, books, videos, training programs, ads and much more (and some of these will be my own posts about what it takes to have a satisfying career). But the vast majority of these touch on the outer…
Belle Beth Cooper | August 12, 2013 Happiness is so interesting, because we all have different ideas about what it is and how to get it. It’s also no surprise that it’s the Nr.1 value for Buffer’s culture, if you see our slidedeck about it. So naturally we are obsessed with it. I would love to be happier, as…
Rohan Pearce | August 1, 2013 Being successful won’t necessarily make you happy, but according to Shawn Achor, author of The Happiness Advantage and CEO of GoodThink, happiness can help raise levels of success. It’s somewhat of an inversion of what people typically believe – and it has implications for businesses that want to boost what their…
Eloise Marie Valadez | July 29, 2013 Author and positive psychology expert Shawn Achor travels the world to spread his messages on achieving happiness. Achor, cofounder of the Institute of Applied Positive Research and founder of Good Think Inc., was recently in Chicago to speak about his work on the link between happiness, success, and productivity.…
Kare Anderson | July 21, 2013 The second part of this story is the real clincher for considering that happiness can be a choice. An elementary school teacher in rural Arkansas made a bracelet of charms of each student in her class so she could continually remind herself of how she cared about each one, and her…
Jeffrey Goldsmith with Shawn Achor | May 28, 2013 The secret to a more productive, creative, and flexible workforce? M&Ms, thank-you cards, and whatever else makes them smile. In a psychological study, 44 internists are given a hypothetical patient file, including a misdiagnosis from another hospital, and asked to decipher the medical problem at hand. Half of…
