Embracing the Happiness Advantage: Insights from "The Happiness Advantage" by Shawn Achor
14 snippets on Happiness From Happiness Advantage and Tips to Find Time for Reading books
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Weekly Book Highlights from The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor.
Tips on finding time to Read Books
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📚 Weekly Book Highlights
In this week's edition of Curiosity Logs, we're immersing ourselves in the world of positive psychology with insights from "The Happiness Advantage" by Shawn Achor.
From cultivating a positive mindset to leveraging happiness as a competitive advantage, "The Happiness Advantage" offers invaluable insights for living a more fulfilling and productive life.
Here is some interesting snippets from the book👇
If you work hard, you will become successful, and once you become successful, then you’ll be happy….Success first, happiness second….The only problem is that this formula is broken.
But with each victory, our goalposts of success keep getting pushed further and further out, so that happiness gets pushed over the horizon.
the formula is broken because it is backward.
happiness is the precursor to success, not merely the result.
The students who were so focused on the stress and the pressure—the ones who saw learning as a chore—were missing out on all the opportunities right in front of them.
I became fascinated with what caused those high potential individuals to develop a positive mindset to excel, especially in such a competitive environment.
If we study merely what is average, we will remain merely average.
You can study gravity forever without learning how to fly.
In their pursuit of high achievement, they had isolated themselves from their peers and loved ones and thus compromised the very support systems they so ardently needed.
Countless studies have found that social relationships are the best guarantee of heightened well-being and lowered stress
they had been taught that if you work hard you will be successful—and only then, once you are successful, will you be happy.
We become more successful when we are happier and more positive.
It turns out that our brains are literally hardwired to perform at their best not when they are negative or even neutral, but when they are positive.
Yet in today’s world, we ironically sacrifice happiness for success only to lower our brains’ success rates
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Struggling to find time for Reading?
I used to be in the same boat. But not anymore.
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1.Keep the momentum by reading at least one page or 5 minutes every day.
↳ Consistency breeds habit.2.Enable the "Time left in chapter" feature and strive to finish each chapter. ↳ Winning feeling motivates you to keep going.
3.Ride that wave of small wins to start the next book and continue your reading journey.
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