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Before Happiness Shawn Achor

Before Happiness By Shawn Achor

Before Happiness by Shawn Achor


$17.49
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Summary

Introduces a theory about success and human potential. This title shows how a positive mindset is the best predictor of motivation, engagement and performance in the workplace and in your personal life and offers five practical, actionable strategies for creating this mindset that can make us successful at work and at home.

Before Happiness Summary

Before Happiness: Five Actionable Strategies to Create a Positive Path to Success by Shawn Achor

Do you want to achieve success in your personal and professional endeavours? The first step is to see a reality where success is possible. Only when we choose to believe we live in a world in which challenges can be overcome, in which our behaviour matters, and in which change is possible can we summon all our drive, energy, and emotional and intellectual resources to make that change possible. In Before Happiness, Shawn Achor, former Harvard professor, and bestselling author of The Happiness Advantage introduces a groundbreaking new theory about success and human potential. Achor shows how a positive mindset is the best predictor of motivation, engagement and performance in the workplace and in your personal life and offers five practical, actionable strategies for creating this mindset that will make us more successful at work and at home: 1)Add vantage points - how to select the most valuable reality 2)Map to success - mapping success greatly increases the chance you will get there 3)Finding the X Spot - proven techniques for harnessing your cognitive abilities 4)Boost the signal by cancelling the noise - how to cancel negative noise 5)Positive Inception - how to spread positive reality to others Backed by science, great stories, and research-based strategies, by the time you finish this book, you will have a complete understanding of exactly how to create a better reality and magnify the volume of happiness and success in your life, and equally important, transfer that positive reality to others.

About Shawn Achor

Shawn Achor is CEO of consultancy firm Good Think Inc. He gives 150 lectures a year on the science of human potential, speaking to audiences recently at Google, Adobe, UBS and Johnson and Johnson. He is a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review and Psychology Today. His TED talk on the Happiness Advantage has been viewed over 3 million times.

Additional information

GOR005914290
9780753541852
0753541858
Before Happiness: Five Actionable Strategies to Create a Positive Path to Success by Shawn Achor
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Ebury Publishing
2013-09-12
272
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This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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