The Happiness Advantage: Research Linking Happiness and Success Maritz Travel Company April 16, 2014 Shawn Achor Good Think Inc.

Researching The Happiness Advantage

Escaping the Cult of the Average

Ripple Effects and Mirror Neurons Positive individual changes ripple to culture change

Case Study of Positive Outliers

Harvard University

The Greatest Predictors of Success Optimism, The Belief That Your Behavior Matters Strong Social Connection Perceive Stress as a Challenge

The Happiness Advantage 37% greater sales 3x more creative 31% more productive 40% more likely to receive a promotion 23% fewer fatigue symptoms Up to 10x more engaged 39% more likely to live to age 94 (Achor, HBR, 2012)

The Tetris Effect: Re-training Your Brain

Creating Sustainable Positive Change 3 Gratitudes (Emmons & McCullough, 2003) The Doubler (Slatcher & Pennebaker, 2006) The Fun Fifteen (Babyak et al., 2000) Meditation (Shapiro & Schwartz, 2005) Conscious Act of Kindness (Achor, 2010)

Experiment: Commit To Your Habit Email: 1 = Gratitudes 2 = Doubler 3 = Fun Fifteen 4 = Meditation 5 = Email start@happinessadvantage.com

The 20 Second Rule Long emails and guitars Activation Energy Flow (Csikszentmihalyi, 1990)

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