Shawn Achor, a member of Oprah's SuperSoul 100, 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. Shawn has become one of the world's leading expert on the connection between happiness and success. His research on happiness made the cover of Harvard Business Review, his TED talk is one of the most popular all time with over 4 million views, and his lecture airing on PBS has been seen by millions. Shawn teaches for the Advanced Management Program at Wharton Business School, and collaborates on research with Yale and Columbia University.
In 2007, Shawn founded Good Think to share his research with the world. Subsequently, Shawn has lectured or researched in 51 countries, speaking to CEOs in China, school children in South Africa, doctors in Dubai, and farmers in Zimbabwe. He has spoken to the Royal Family in Abu Dhabi, doctors at St. Jude Children's Hospital, and worked with the U.S. Department of Health to promote happiness. In 2012, Shawn helped lead the Everyday Matters campaign with the National MS Society and Genzyme to show how happiness remains a choice for those struggling with a chronic illness.
Shawn graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and earned a Masters degree from Harvard Divinity School in Christian and Buddhist ethics. For seven years, Shawn also served as an Officer of Harvard, living in Harvard Yard and counseling students through the stresses of their first year. Though he now travels extensively for his work, Shawn continues to conduct original psychology research on happiness and organizational achievement in collaboration with Yale University and the Institute for Applied Positive Research.
Our most commonly held formula for success is broken.
Conventional wisdom holds that if we work hard we will be more successful, and if we are more successful, then we’ll be happy. If we can just find that great job, win that next promotion, lose those five pounds, happiness will follow. But recent discoveries in the field of positive psychology have shown that this formula is actually backward: Happiness fuels success, not the other way around. When we are positive, our brains become more engaged, creative, motivated, energetic, resilient, and productive at work. This isn’t just an empty mantra. This discovery has been repeatedly borne out by rigorous research in psychology and neuroscience, management studies, and the bottom lines of organizations around the globe.
In The Happiness Advantage , Shawn Achor, who spent over a decade living, researching, and lecturing at Harvard University, draws on his own research—including one of the largest studies of happiness and potential at Harvard and others at companies like UBS and KPMG—to fix this broken formula. Using stories and case studies from his work with thousands of Fortune 500 executives in 42 countries, Achor explains how we can reprogram our brains to become more positive in order to gain a competitive edge at work.
Isolating seven practical, actionable principles that have been tried and tested everywhere from classrooms to boardrooms, stretching from Argentina to Zimbabwe, he shows us how we can capitalize on the Happiness Advantage to improve our performance and maximize our potential. Among the principles he outlines:
•The Tetris Effect: how to retrain our brains to spot patterns of possibility, so we can see—and seize—opportunities wherever we look.
•The Zorro Circle: how to channel our efforts on small, manageable goals, to gain the leverage to gradually conquer bigger and bigger ones.
•Social Investment: how to reap the dividends of investing in one of the greatest predictors of success and happiness—our social support network
A must-read for everyone trying to excel in a world of increasing workloads, stress, and negativity, The Happiness Advantage isn’t only about how to become happier at work. It’s about how to reap the benefits of a happier and more positive mind-set to achieve the extraordinary in our work and in our lives.
發表於2025-04-15
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這本書是積極心理暗示的一本書,非常有啓迪性。它講瞭七條法則,我並不想一條一條挨著贅述。 做每件事前,積極主動的看待這件事,想象自己做的非常好。 壓力中,睏難中,積極主動,專注於自己的優勢(演講時我說話渾厚好聽)(手術時我的手法非常細緻)。 對待每件事,每個情緒...
評分為瞭戰勝拖延癥,纔看看此書。 每次打開電腦,都習慣先看看新聞,逛逛論壇,消耗不少時間。 裏麵的一個觀點很有效果,為這些習慣的事情增添障礙。比如把默認的主頁變成空白頁,不要是那種導航頁。這樣一來,每次要去訪問那些網站,都得敲網站地址。 相反,把迫切要做得活動,...
評分對於我的讀書效率這件事,我就不找什麼藉口瞭:我讀書確實太慢! 《快樂競爭力》是去年夏天開學的時候林正剛老師推薦的N本書之一,後來在其微博的正能量係列薦書中也有列及。講得是如何提升幸福感,一個人要先覺得快樂瞭,纔能更好的追求的成功的意思。 很多時候我們覺得去...
評分《快樂競爭力》這本書是由美國哈弗幸福課的創始人shawn achor著作。 該書首先講述瞭快樂的心理為什麼可以提高淨競爭力,並且可以使用7種方式提升幸福的基準綫。 七種方法分彆是: 1、2.9013 積極互動和消極互動對績效的比例是2.9013,意思是一個消極互動引起的減退效應必須要用...
圖書標籤: 積極心理學 心理學 psychology 心理 正嚮心理學 成功 英文 思維
書的很多內容都是common sense. 但是又有很多research to back it up. 生活中需要有這種被彆人告知的時候 嘿 繼續開心下去吧 不會有壞處的
評分集閤各路研究成果,並無新觀點;語言絮叨;小故事很多,並不都切中論點;七個原則的取名非常不直觀。閱讀輕鬆,心情好。
評分not bad at all, easy read and good points, just not much new stuff in it
評分作者的TED演講是20個the most popular TED talks之一。對我來說,“20秒規則”這一章可以說是醍醐灌頂,光這一章就值迴整本書瞭!
評分not bad at all, easy read and good points, just not much new stuff in it
The Happiness Advantage 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載