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The Happiness Advantage - How a Positive Brain Fuels Success in Work and Life

Shawn Achor

Summary

Key Insights from "The Happiness Advantage"

  1. Principle of the Happiness Advantage: Happiness leads to success, rather than success leading to happiness.
  2. The Tetris Effect: Training your brain to capitalize on possibility thinking and recognize patterns of opportunity.
  3. Falling Up: The ability to perceive stress and failure as opportunities for growth and learning.
  4. The Zorro Circle: The concept of gaining control over your life and focusing on small, manageable goals to achieve larger ones.
  5. The 20-Second Rule: Making positive habits easier and negative habits harder to adopt can create lasting change.
  6. Social Investment: Investing in relationships is key to weathering...

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