Embracing the Happiness Advantage: Insights from "The Happiness Advantage" by Shawn Achor

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In today's issue we will discuss

• Weekly Book Highlights from The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor.

• Tips on finding time to Read Books

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📚 Weekly Book Highlights

In this week's edition of Curiosity Logs, we're immersing ourselves in the world of positive psychology with insights from "The Happiness Advantage" by Shawn Achor.

From cultivating a positive mindset to leveraging happiness as a competitive advantage, "The Happiness Advantage" offers invaluable insights for living a more fulfilling and productive life.

Here is some interesting snippets from the book👇

1. If you work hard, you will become successful, and once you become successful, then you’ll be happy….Success first, happiness second….The only problem is that this formula is broken.

2. But with each victory, our goalposts of success keep getting pushed further and further out, so that happiness gets pushed over the horizon.

3. the formula is broken because it is backward.

4. happiness is the precursor to success, not merely the result.

5. The students who were so focused on the stress and the pressure—the ones who saw learning as a chore—were missing out on all the opportunities right in front of them.

6. I became fascinated with what caused those high potential individuals to develop a positive mindset to excel, especially in such a competitive environment.

7. If we study merely what is average, we will remain merely average.

8. You can study gravity forever without learning how to fly.

9. In their pursuit of high achievement, they had isolated themselves from their peers and loved ones and thus compromised the very support systems they so ardently needed.

10. Countless studies have found that social relationships are the best guarantee of heightened well-being and lowered stress

11. they had been taught that if you work hard you will be successful—and only then, once you are successful, will you be happy.

12. We become more successful when we are happier and more positive.

13. It turns out that our brains are literally hardwired to perform at their best not when they are negative or even neutral, but when they are positive.

14. Yet in today’s world, we ironically sacrifice happiness for success only to lower our brains’ success rates

P.S. I’d love to know: What is the single snippet above that sounds most interesting or impactful to you? Share in comments or reply this email.

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