115 Quotes by Shawn Achor

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    As we got more interested in time management and productivity, we lost the individual, and with that individual loss, we lost happiness as well. So I think the world has actually been malnourished as we've focused so much on productivity and ignored happiness and meaning to our own detriment.

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    Most people keep waiting on happiness, putting off happiness until they're successful or until they achieve some goal, which means we limit both happiness and success. That formula doesn't work.

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    The fastest way to disengage an employee is to tell him his work is meaningful only because of the paycheck.

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    Study after study shows that happiness precedes important outcomes and indicators of thriving.

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    Happiness is not the belief that we don't need to change; it's the realization that we can.

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