Why are some people able to make positive change while others remain the same?
In his international bestseller, The Happiness Advantage, Harvard trained researcher Shawn Achor described why happiness is the precursor to greater success. This book is about what comes before both. Because before we can be happy or successful, we need to first develop the ability to see that positive change is possible. Only once we learn to see the world through a more positive lens can we summon all our motivation, emotion, and intelligence to achieve our personal and professional goals.
In Before Happiness, Achor reveals five actionable, proven strategies for changing our lens to positive:
· The Most Valuable Reality: See a broader range of ideas and solutions by changing the details on which your brain chooses to focus
· Success Mapping: Set goals oriented around the things in life that matter to you most, whether career advancement or family or making a difference in the world
· The X-spot: Use success accelerants to propel you more quickly towards those goals, whether finishing a marathon, reaching a sales target, learning a language, or losing 10 pounds
· Noise-Canceling: Boost the signal pointing you to opportunities and possibilities that others miss
· Positive Inception: Transfer these skills to your team, your employees, and everyone around you
By mastering these strategies, you’ll create an renewable source of positivity, motivation, and engagement that will allow you to reach your fullest potential in everything you do.
To read more about Shawn Achor or BEFORE HAPPINESS please visit Crown Publishing at www.crownpublishing.com
Why are some people able to make positive change while others remain the same?
In his international bestseller, The Happiness Advantage, Harvard trained researcher Shawn Achor described why happiness is the precursor to greater success. This book is about what comes before both. Because before we can be happy or successful, we need to first develop the ability to see that positive change is possible. Only once we learn to see the world through a more positive lens can we summon all our motivation, emotion, and intelligence to achieve our personal and professional goals.
In Before Happiness, Achor reveals five actionable, proven strategies for changing our lens to positive:
· The Most Valuable Reality: See a broader range of ideas and solutions by changing the details on which your brain chooses to focus
· Success Mapping: Set goals oriented around the things in life that matter to you most, whether career advancement or family or making a difference in the world
· The X-spot: Use success accelerants to propel you more quickly towards those goals, whether finishing a marathon, reaching a sales target, learning a language, or losing 10 pounds
· Noise-Canceling: Boost the signal pointing you to opportunities and possibilities that others miss
· Positive Inception: Transfer these skills to your team, your employees, and everyone around you
By mastering these strategies, you’ll create an renewable source of positivity, motivation, and engagement that will allow you to reach your fullest potential in everything you do.
To read more about Shawn Achor or BEFORE HAPPINESS please visit Crown Publishing at www.crownpublishing.com
Why are some people able to make positive change while others remain the same?
In his international bestseller, The Happiness Advantage, Harvard trained researcher Shawn Achor described why happiness is the precursor to greater success. This book is about what comes before both. Because before we can be happy or successful, we need to first develop the ability to see that positive change is possible. Only once we learn to see the world through a more positive lens can we summon all our motivation, emotion, and intelligence to achieve our personal and professional goals.
In Before Happiness, Achor reveals five actionable, proven strategies for changing our lens to positive:
· The Most Valuable Reality: See a broader range of ideas and solutions by changing the details on which your brain chooses to focus
· Success Mapping: Set goals oriented around the things in life that matter to you most, whether career advancement or family or making a difference in the world
· The X-spot: Use success accelerants to propel you more quickly towards those goals, whether finishing a marathon, reaching a sales target, learning a language, or losing 10 pounds
· Noise-Canceling: Boost the signal pointing you to opportunities and possibilities that others miss
· Positive Inception: Transfer these skills to your team, your employees, and everyone around you
By mastering these strategies, you’ll create an renewable source of positivity, motivation, and engagement that will allow you to reach your fullest potential in everything you do.
To read more about Shawn Achor or BEFORE HAPPINESS please visit Crown Publishing at www.crownpublishing.com
{ If you want to change your life, you first have to change
your reality.
In my fi rst book, The Happiness Advantage, I described the re-
search on how a happy brain reaps a massive advantage in the workplace. I wrote about how, when we fi nd and create happiness in our work, we show increased intelligence, creativity, and en- ergy, improving nearly every single business and educational out- come. In short, that book was about how happiness comes before success. This book is about what comes before both. If you want to create positive change in your life, you fi rst have to change your reality. To be honest, I think I’ve learned more about happiness over the past five years than I did in a decade sitting in labs and teach- ing in classrooms at Harvard. During this time, I have had the
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opportunity to travel to fi ft y-one countries, speaking at compa-
nies and schools and learning more about this connection be- tween success and happiness. But each place I visited pushed me harder. The more I observed, the more I wanted to understand how we can positively change people’s view of the world to make them not just happier in the moment but more engaged, more motivated, more alive—permanently. I wanted to learn how we could help people not just succeed at certain tasks, or accomplish certain goals, but reach entirely new levels of success. But over the course of my travels I also found that it wasn’t enough to study success and happiness where it was easiest: in a controlled experi- ment with privileged university students as subjects. I wanted to test my theories where it was hardest. So to my mother’s dismay, I was driven to lectures in Venezu- ela in bulletproof cars to speak with leaders under threats of “ex- press kidnappings” about the research on resilience. I slept in huts in Tanzania surrounded by the biggest spiders I’ve ever seen (and I’m from Texas, so that’s saying something) to hear from people who had been kicked off their land but who remained optimistic. I spoke about happiness at a public school assembly on the one- year anniversary of a mass shooting at the school. In a shanty- town in Kenya I met with illiterate mothers, one of whom was determined that her eight-year-old daughter would go to Harvard someday. I was the positive psychology expert for the Everyday Matters campaign to see if happiness remains a choice for indi- viduals with a chronic neuromuscular disease. I worked with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in the midst of an epidemic of depression, and Freddie Mac in the midst of a mortgage crisis. My company began working on an ambitious ini- tiative at Walmart aimed at raising the happiness levels of their
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1.5 million associates who are struggling to make ends meet in
the face of complicated family and educational issues. And I met with doctors attempting to cure terminal cancer in children at St. Jude and Boston Children’s Hospitals to fi nd out why sick four- year-olds are more likely to tell their parents that “everything will be okay” than the reverse. At the other end of the spectrum, I was invited to work with Google and Facebook as they dealt with the confusing in- flux of wealth that was, ironically, sapping employees of their engagement and motivation. What did I learn? That for all my research about the connection between success and happiness, I was missing something important. Happiness led to success, true, but what gave someone— especially someone facing obstacles and hardships—the under- standing that happiness was possible in the fi rst place? Why did achievement and happiness seem like a possibility to one person but impossible to someone else in the same position or situation? Why did some illiterate mothers believe their children could get into Harvard, while others couldn’t fathom the idea? Why did some of the impoverished children in Indonesia create a happy playtime with only some sticks and string, while others sat bored and sullen? Why could missing out on a bonus inspire one leader at a UK fi nancial services company to work better and harder, while causing another leader at the same company to give up and stop trying? Why did some people diagnosed with MS suddenly start training for marathons, while others remained mired in the belief that they’d lost the ability to participate fully in life? Soon it became clear. The reason some people were thriving while others—people in the exact same situation—were stuck in hopelessness was that they were literally living in different
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realities. Some were living in a reality in which happiness and suc-
cess seemed possible, despite the obstacles. Others were living in a “reality” where it was not. After all, how could someone expect to achieve happiness or success when stuck in the mindset that neither was possible? I began to realize that if we wanted to create a real, long- lasting, and sustainable change, we needed to show people how to fundamentally change their reality—the entire lens through which they viewed their world. Of course, there are certain objective facts we must accept about our lives. Those kids in Tanzania are poor. Those UK bank- ers did miss out on those bonuses. Those MS sufferers are sick. But how we choose to look at those objective facts is in our minds. And only when we choose to believe that we live in a world where chal- lenges can be overcome, our behavior matters, and change is possible can we summon all our drive, energy, and emotional and intellectual resources to make that change happen. My research over the past five years, coupled with other amaz- ing research emerging from positive psychology labs all over the globe, helped me understand what I had been missing: that before happiness and success comes your perception of your world. So before we can be happy and successful, we need to create a positive reality that allows us to see the possibility for both. This book is the culmination of my research showing that there is a simple five-step process for raising our levels of success and happiness by changing our reality to positive. But to be clear, when I say, “creating a positive reality,” I don’t mean simply being optimistic. I also don’t mean adopting some sort of deluded view of the world in which simply wishing for wealth will suddenly result in a windfall of millions, or simply
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envisioning your cancer disappearing will cure you forever. Th is
is neither positive nor productive. When I talk about a positive reality, I’m not talking about one in which good things magically happen by the sheer power of positive thinking; I’m talking about one in which you can summon all your cognitive, intellectual, and emotional resources to create positive change, because you believe that true change is possible. The consistent ability to create this kind of reality is called positive genius, and it turns out to be the greatest precursor of success, performance, and even happiness. In this book I’ll share five practical, research-based steps to help you raise your levels of positive genius and, in turn, your rates of success. The steps are:
1. Choose the most valuable reality : How to see multiple re-
alities and select the one that leads to positive growth.
2. Map your meaning markers: How to identify and chart
the best route to accomplishing your goals.
3. Find the X-spot: How to use success accelerants to pro-
pel you more quickly toward your goals.
4. Cancel the noise: How to boost the signal that points to
greater opportunities, possibilities, and resources.
5. Create positive inception: How to amplify the effects of
a positive mindset by transferring your positive reality to others.
Before potential, there is a motivation. Before motivation,
there is an emotion. And before emotion, there is your reality.
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This reality is the difference between fleeting happiness and a
permanent mindset that fosters success in every personal and professional endeavor. The goal of this book is to help you become a positive genius so that you can achieve true greatness in every aspect of your life and career.
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