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Shawn Achor
American • Educator
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Showing 34 quotesNot every vacation is equal. And theory - the idea that vacations should increase happiness - doesn't always translate to reality.— Shawn Achor
To be truly engaged at work, your brain needs periodic breaks to gain fresh perspective and energy.— Shawn Achor
Too many people limit their happiness and success by assuming that taking time off from work will send a negative message to their manager and slow their career advancement.— Shawn Achor
The greatest competitive advantage in the modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.— Shawn Achor
Positive and engaged brains are a company's greatest assets. More than time and even more than productivity, people must be happy.— Shawn Achor
The decision to use recognition as an on-the-spot bonus instead of merely pay increases is a fascinating one, because pay increases can create new mental anchors for how much the person feels happy earning, whereas the social recognition program is ongoing, unexpected, and harder to form a mental anchor around.— Shawn Achor
Joy makes us want to invest more deeply in the people around us. It makes us want to learn more about our communities. It makes us want to be able to find ways of being able to make this a better external world for all of us.— Shawn Achor
What we've been finding is people are afraid of happiness. They're afraid of happiness because they think we'll stagnate or we'll be blind: that if I'm happy now, I won't keep fighting as hard. If I'm happy now, I won't push as hard to make a better world. That's what pleasure does. Joy does the exact opposite.— Shawn Achor
When people exercise, we talk about endorphins, but endorphins are just short-term. The reason why exercise is valuable is it trains your brain to believe, 'My behavior matters,' which is optimism.— Shawn Achor
If you've ever tried to start up the habit of early-morning exercise, you have probably encountered how easy it is to get derailed by too much choice.— Shawn Achor
The idea of investing in the positivity of employees is often low down on companies' priority lists.— Shawn Achor
Success does not mean happiness. Check out any celebrity magazine to look for examples to disabuse you of thinking that being beautiful, successful or rich will make you happy.— Shawn Achor
Joy is something you can experience even when life is not pleasurable. Even in the midst of a long run, when your legs are burning, you can still feel joy.— Shawn Achor
The more we can lower or even eliminate the activation energy for our desired actions, the more we enhance our ability to jump-start positive change.— Shawn Achor