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The Happiness Advantage: Research Linking Happiness and Success

The Happiness Advantage: Research Linking Happiness and Success. Maritz Travel Company April 16, 2014 Shawn Achor Good Think Inc. Researching The Happiness Advantage. Escaping the Cult of the Average. Ripple Effects and Mirror Neurons.

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The Happiness Advantage: Research Linking Happiness and Success

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  1. The Happiness Advantage:Research Linking Happiness and Success Maritz Travel Company April 16, 2014 Shawn Achor Good Think Inc.

  2. Researching The Happiness Advantage

  3. Escaping the Cult of the Average

  4. Ripple Effects and Mirror Neurons Positive individual changes ripple to culture change

  5. Case Study of Positive Outliers

  6. Harvard University

  7. Optimism, The Belief That Your Behavior Matters Strong Social Connection Perceive Stress as a Challenge The Greatest Predictors of Success

  8. The Happiness Advantage • 37% greater sales • 3x more creative • 31% more productive • 40% more likely to receive a promotion • 23% fewer fatigue symptoms • Up to 10x more engaged • 39% more likely to live to age 94 (Achor, HBR, 2012)

  9. The Tetris Effect: Re-training Your Brain

  10. Creating Sustainable Positive Change • 3 Gratitudes(Emmons & McCullough, 2003) • The Doubler(Slatcher & Pennebaker, 2006) • The Fun Fifteen (Babyak et al., 2000) • Meditation(Shapiro & Schwartz, 2005) • Conscious Act of Kindness(Achor, 2010)

  11. Experiment: Commit To Your Habit • Email: • 1 = Gratitudes • 2 = Doubler • 3 = Fun Fifteen • 4 = Meditation • 5 = Email • start@happinessadvantage.com

  12. The 20 Second Rule • Long emails and guitars • Activation Energy • Flow (Csikszentmihalyi, 1990)

  13. For more information and links to research: HappinessAdvantage.com Next steps: Do your Habit Read The Happiness Advantage Share the TED talk

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