“As Harvard Business School professor Peter Bregman advises, 'Don't write a book, write a page...Don't expect to be a great manager in your first six months, just try to set expectations well.”
Shawn Achor“You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body.”
Shawn Achor“Research shows you get multiple tasks done faster if you do them one at a time. It also decreases stress and raises happiness.”
Shawn Achor“Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.”
Shawn Achor“Because in life, knowledge is only part of the battle. WITHOUT ACTION, KNOWLEDGE IS OFTEN MEANINGLESS. As Aristotle put it, to be excellent we cannot simply think or feel excellent, we must act excellently. Yet the action required to follow through on what we know is often the hardest part.”
Shawn Achor, The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work“Happiness is the joy you feel striving toward your potential”
Shawn Achor, The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work“Here was someone who had dismissed most of what I had just been saying as too obvious to even discuss”
yet apparently it wasn't obvious enough. I realized that he was the living embodiment of one of the greatest paradoxes of human behavior:Common sense is not common action.