Tag: Before Happiness

4 Ways to Make Yourself Immune to Secondhand Stress

Shawn Achor

Make Yourself Immune to Secondhand Stress by Shawn Achor and Michelle Gielan was first published on Harvard Business Review.  Over the past decade, we have learned how our brains are hardwired for emotional contagion. Emotions spread via a wireless network

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Shawn Achor on How to Be Happier at Work

Shawn Achor

This article was originally published on Forbes, by Dorie Clark. Does an overflowing inbox stress you out? You’re not alone – but according to Shawn Achor, author of Before Happiness: The 5 Hidden Keys to Achieving Success, Spreading Happiness, and Sustaining Positive

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Use Psychology to Reach Your Goals Faster: 3 Ways

Shawn Achor

This article was originally published at Tech Cocktail, written by Kira M. Newman When I picked up Shawn Achor’s book Before Happiness, I thought I was reading a book about positivity. It turns out, it’s also a book about success –

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Oprah & Shawn Achor on the Secret of Happy People

“Super Soul Sunday – Oprah & Shawn Achor: The Secret of Happy People”  Super Soul Sunday Episode Summaries Part 1: Aired Sunday, May 25 at 11 a.m. ET/PT on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network Oprah sits down with Shawn Achor, a Harvard-trained researcher and the New

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6 Ways to Press Mute on Brain Noise

In today’s world of smartphones and 24-hour news channels, we’ve become addicted to information. I found myself filling all my micro-moments each day with stuff that blocked me from forward progress. Brain “noise” is any information that is irrelevant, useless,

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