TEDxBloomington – Shawn Achor – “The Happiness Advantage: Linking Positive Brains to Performance”
Shawn Achor is the winner of over a dozen distinguished teaching awards at Harvard University, where he delivered lectures on positive psychology in the most popular class at Harvard.
His research and lectures on happiness and human potential have received attention in The New York Times, Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, as well as on NPR and CNN Radio, and he travels around the United States and Europe giving talks on positive psychology to Fortune 500 corporations, schools, and non-profit organizations.
Achor graduated magna cum laude from Harvard with a BA in English and Religion and earned a Masters degree from Harvard Divinity School in Christian and Buddhist ethics.
Now he is the CEO of Aspirant, a Cambridge-based consulting firm which researches positive outliers-people who are well above average-to understand where human potential, success and happiness intersect. Based on his research and 12 years of experience at Harvard, he clearly and humorously describes to organizations how to increase happiness and meaning, raise success rates and profitability, and create positive transformations that ripple into more successful cultures.
In Shawn’s TEDxBloomington presentation, he says that most modern research focuses on the average, but that “if we focus on the average, we will remain merely average.” He wants to study the positive outliers, and learn how not only to bring people up to the average, but to move the entire average up.
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Shawn Achor: The Happiness Revolution
I know and understand what he is saying is true, but it left me frustrated. At the very end of the talk he outlined the "recipe" for reprogramming the brain and gave a hint as to the individual ingredients are – but what's next? Where do I go from here?
Fulfilled: It is the way we feel when our minds are completely open to life; we become “filled” with life. Being filled with life makes you feel the way you want to feel all the time. Fulfillment is true happiness. Chemicals such as endorphins, adrenaline, serotonin and dopamine make you feel good, but they do it by just allowing you to feel a little true life. Like all drugs, the effect is temporary, and it has a balancing downside. The ultimate truth is not temporary and has no down side. No drugs are necessary. The Ultimate Truth is the key to positive psychology, it will change your mind into your friend instead of the enemy it is now. Google TruthContest read the Present
thanks, this video is very helpful. presentation was spot on.
great, but talks TOO FAST!
This was an awesome talk!
that annoying bitch talking in the audience is super distracting
Gratitude is so powerful, great talk!
TEDx strikes again!
This moron never heard of the USA presidential elections (just the simplest example). No matter how "POSITIVE" the candidates are, no matter how huge support they get, no matter how much money they put in, ONLY ONE will be "successful”! The others will be failures.
Happiness is mostly relative. When the source of pain goes away, you are "happy". Which state erodes quickly.
Success NEVER depends on yourself alone. You live in a complex world, in a complex Universe. You always depend on the others. Nothing (or only a few things) go as planned. Your success is often the failure of another human. Can you get happiness when you hurt somebody else?
But you should have identified the shammer just by listening to his teleshopping-scammer-style discourse.
He's not happy, he is "excited".
I wonder how happy will he be when his wife dies. How positively will he be thinking?
Great talk! The presenter speaks very fast though – a bit hard to absorb his words. Otherwise, a speech well-done.
really nice
I do all the things Shawn mentoined in the talk and it is really sci fi! I keep going an go beyond!
There are many factors in becoming successful. These include:
Taking control of your own health.
Learning about the power of the mind.
Following in the tracks of successful people.
One resource I found that merges these is the Magic Progress Shortcut (google it if you're interested) without a doubt the most useful course on success that I have ever seen. look at this amazing resource.
This is so true, we need to be more conscience of how we are thinking!
Shawn it was wonderful talk…keep doing…
Bravo!!!
While i watch this, i make tea: my yogi tea quote of the day is "Joy is the essence of success".
This is blowing my mind.
Best TED Talks, I've seen!
Loved your talk Shawn, keep up the great work.