115 Quotes by Shawn Achor

Spend two minutes a day scanning the world for three new things you're grateful for. And do that for 21 days, The reason why that's powerful is you're training your brain to scan the world in a new pattern, you're scanning for positives, instead of scanning for threats. It's the fastest way of teaching optimism.

All it takes is consciously remembering that we need to include others in our reality.

This is a very important study because it shows that when we perceive a reality in which success is likely, that success become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I defined happiness as “the joy we feel moving toward our potential.

The person we have the greatest power to change is ourselves.

The way we define happiness is the joy you feel striving toward your potential.

Meditate. Neuroscientists have found that monks who spend years meditating actually grow their left prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain most responsible for feeling happy. But don’t worry, you don’t have to spend years in sequestered, celibate silence to experience a boost. Take just five minutes each day to watch your breath go in and out.

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.

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