Before Happiness by Shawn Achor

Before Happiness by Shawn Achor

Why are some people able to make positive change while others remain the same?

In his international bestseller, The Happiness Advantage, Harvard trained researcher Shawn Achor described why happiness is the precursor to greater success. This book is about what comes before both. Because before we can be happy or successful, we need to first develop the ability to see that positive change is possible. Only once we learn to see the world through a more positive lens can we summon all our motivation, emotion, and intelligence to achieve our personal and professional goals.

In Before Happiness, Achor reveals five actionable, proven strategies for changing our lens to positive:

- The Most Valuable Reality: See a broader range of ideas and solutions by changing the details on which your brain chooses to focus
- Success Mapping: Set goals oriented around the things in life that matter to you most, whether career advancement or family or making a difference in the world
- The X-spot: Use success accelerants to propel you more quickly towards those goals, whether finishing a marathon, reaching a sales target, learning a language, or losing 10 pounds
- Noise-Canceling Boost the signal pointing you to opportunities and possibilities that others miss
- Positive Inception Transfer these skills to your team, your employees, and everyone around you

By mastering these strategies, you'll create an renewable source of positivity, motivation, and engagement that will allow you to reach your fullest potential in everything you do.

Shawn Achor, a member of Oprah's SuperSoul 100, has won more than a dozen distinguished teaching awards at Harvard University, where he taught positive psychology in Harvard's most popular class. Shawn has established himself as one of the world's foremost experts on the link between happiness and achievement. His happiness research was featured on the cover of Harvard Business Review, and his TED talk, which has over 7 million views, is one of the most popular of all time. His lecture on PBS has also been seen by millions. Shawn teaches in the Wharton Business School's Advanced Management Program and collaborates on research with Yale and Columbia Universities. Shawn started Good Think in 2007 to share his knowledge with the rest of the globe.

Shawn has now taught or conducted research in 51 countries, speaking to CEOs in China, schoolchildren in South Africa, doctors in Dubai, and farmers in Zimbabwe, among others. He's spoken to Abu Dhabi's Royal Family, as well as specialists at St. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, as well as the U.S. Happiness is promoted by the Department of Health.

Shawn was a part of the Everyday Matters campaign, which was launched in 2012 by the National MS Society and Genzyme to illustrate how people living with a chronic condition may choose to be happy. Shawn received a magna cum laude from Harvard and a master's degree in Christian and Buddhist ethics from Harvard Divinity School. Shawn also served as an Officer of Harvard for seven years, residing in Harvard Yard and guiding students through their first-year concerns. Shawn continues to do unique psychology research on happiness and organizational accomplishment in cooperation with Yale University and the Institute for Applied Positive Research, despite the fact that he now travels widely for his job.

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ISBN 13	9780770436735
ISBN 10	0770436730
Title	Before Happiness
Author	Shawn Achor
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Currency
Year published	2013-09-10
Number of pages	272
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