9 Quotes & Sayings By Shawn Achor

Shawn Achor is an American author, speaker, and social psychologist. He was born in Boston and raised in New York. He graduated from Brown University in 1996 with a degree in English and went on to receive his PhD in Social and Personality Psychology from MIT in 2002. He currently teaches at Cambridge University, where he has worked since 2003. His TED Talk on The Happiness Advantage has been viewed over 45 million times.

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Happiness is the joy you feel striving toward your potential Shawn Achor
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You can study gravity forever without learning how to fly. Shawn Achor
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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. Shawn Achor
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Because in life, knowledge is only part of the battle. WITHOUT ACTION, KNOWLEDGE IS OFTEN MEANINGLESS. As Aristotle put it, to be excellent we cannot simply think or feel excellent, we must act excellently. Yet the action required to follow through on what we know is often the hardest part. Shawn Achor
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Just as our view of work affects our real experience of it, so too does our view of leisure. If our mindset conceives of free time, hobby time, or family time as non-productive, then we will, in fact, make it a waste of time. Shawn Achor
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Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success. Shawn Achor
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Research shows you get multiple tasks done faster if you do them one at a time. It also decreases stress and raises happiness. Shawn Achor
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You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body. Shawn Achor