How to be Happy and Succssful.

How to be happy. A Ted Talk of  highly intelligent and  humorous proportions featuring Shawn Achor.

http://www.bakadesuyo.com/2014/09/be-more-successful/
http://www.bakadesuyo.com/2014/09/be-more-successful/


Be More Successful: New Harvard Research Reveals A Fun Way To Do It.

1) Success Brings Happiness? No. Happiness Brings Success.

We all chase success hoping it will make us happy:

1. I’ll be happy once I get that promotion.
2. I’ll be happy once I get that raise.
3. I’ll be happy once I lose 15 pounds.

But the research shows that isn’t true. You achieve a goal and you’re briefly happier… but then you’re looking toward the next big thing.

What Shawn’s research showed was when you flip the formula and focus on increasing happiness, you end up increasing success.

If we can get somebody to raise their levels of optimism or deepen their social connection or raise happiness, turns out every single business and educational outcome we know how to test for improves dramatically. You can increase your success rates for the rest of your life and your happiness levels will flatline, but if you raise your level of happiness and deepen optimism it turns out every single one of your success rates rises dramatically compared to what it would have been at negative, neutral, or stressed.