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2025-04-26
The Happiness Advantage 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
Shawn Anchor 主要傳達的訊息是,根據 20 年來 (正嚮) 心理學的研究證實,一般認為的快樂公式是錯的: (不快樂的) 努力工作 → 成功 → 快樂 (X) 主要有 2 個原因: 1. 這樣的方式不見得能夠導緻成功,反而容易較快陣亡 (如憂鬱癥, 壓力大, 身心癥) 2. 即使成功瞭,舉例來說...
評分"多虧前沿的科學研究,我們現在認識到,快樂是成功的先鋒,而不僅僅是結果;快樂和樂觀實際上能提高業績和成就,讓我們獲得競爭優勢,我稱之為“快樂優勢”。 Thanks to this cutting-edge science, we now know that happiness is the precursor to success, not merely the...
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...
評分這本書我看瞭一半左右,濃濃的商業書籍的味道,在我看來,和其他成功學書籍沒什麼兩樣. 這本書先是抨擊隻有成功瞭纔會快樂的觀點,然後說服我們要先快樂纔能成功,所以我們為瞭成功要追求快樂, 可是我們為什麼要追求成功呢,因為成功纔能快樂. 所以這也是所有成功學書籍的可笑之處: ...
評分幸福在哪裏呀,幸福在哪裏,幸福就在你的生活裏。啥,你覺得幸福在彼岸?請問,你注意到瞭最近葉子幾時綠的嗎?請問,你注意到瞭最近那些花兒幾時開的嗎?請問,你還記得白米飯的味道是什麼樣的嗎? 如果,你的迴答是肯定,那麼恭喜你。如果,你無...
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
not bad at all, easy read and good points, just not much new stuff in it
評分easy read (listen) 很多都是老生常談,總的來說社交很重要,positive psychology 也很重要。
評分書的很多內容都是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
評分概念是好的,就是作者話有點多啊
The Happiness Advantage 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載