Shawn Achor gave a TED talk about, “The happy secret to better work.”
He said,
“90% of your long-term happiness is predicted not by the external world, but by the way your brain processes the external world.”
The truth is that society has it backward. We focus on achieving success first in hopes that we will be happy. However, studies show that if we are happy, we are more likely to be successful. So, allow yourself to be happy without the success.
Just change your formula you use for success. Here is the suggestion:
YES: Be happy >> Get success
NO: Be successful >> Get happy
He presented various ways to be happy.
- Gratitude
- Journaling happy events (re-live them)
- Exercise
- Meditation
- Random acts of kindness
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