Tag: Shawn Achor

  • The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work – Shawn Achor

    From amazon.com: Shawn Achor is the winner of over a dozen distinguished teaching awards at Harvard University, where he delivered lectures on positive psychology in the most popular class at Harvard. Today Shawn travels around the world giving talks on positive psychology to Fortune 500 companies, schools, and non-profit organizations. He has worked with doctors…

  • Best “Personal Development” books I read in 2012

    The year 2012 is coming to an end and a part of my reflection process is to look back on books I’ve read this year. Some of them I even read twice.. & some I have blogged about. Anyways here is my top 20 list The Emotional Life of Your Brain: How Its Unique Patterns…

  • Habit #7 – Falling Up – update

    This is not a daily habit.. hopefully. But it’s a good habit to learn.. we all “fall” now and then. It’s about using that downward momentum to propel ourselves in the opposite direction. It’s about capitalizing on setbacks and adversity to become even happier, even more motivated, and even more successful. It’s not falling down,…

  • Shawn Achor @ ted.com

    ted bio: Shawn Achor is the winner of over a dozen distinguished teaching awards at Harvard University, where he delivered lectures on positive psychology in the most popular class at Harvard. He is the CEO of Good Think Inc., a Cambridge-based consulting firm which researches positive outliers — people who are well above average —…