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 Positive individual changes ripple to culture change
Case Study of Positive Outliers
Harvard University
The Greatest Predictors of Success 1. Optimism, The Belief That Your Behavior Matters 2. Strong Social Connection 3. Perceive Stress as a Challenge
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)
The Tetris Effect: Re-training Your Brain
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)
Experiment: Commit To Your Habit
Email:
1 = Gratitudes 2 = Doubler 3 = Fun Fifteen 4 = Meditation 5 = Email
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The 20 Second Rule
Long emails and guitars
Activation Energy
Flow (Csikszentmihalyi, 1990)
For more information and links to research:
HappinessAdvantage.com Next steps: 1.
Do your Habit
2.
Read The Happiness Advantage
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Share the TED talk
