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

2. Researching The Happiness Advantage

3. Escaping the Cult of the Average

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

5. Case Study of Positive Outliers

8. Harvard University

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

10. 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)

11. The Tetris Effect: Re-training Your Brain

12. 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)

13. Experiment: Commit To Your Habit
1 = Gratitudes
2 = Doubler
3 = Fun Fifteen
4 = Meditation
5 =

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

15. HappinessAdvantage.com For more information and links to research:
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