Get Happy & Do It Soon, cause it’s awesome!

Shawn Achor and the Happiness Advantage

A famous presentation on TED, Shawn is an author and speaker known for his advocacy of positive psychology.  His his energy for the material and enthusiasm pushes through the you tube boundaries and makes you wanna have him over for dinner.

This TED talk is a great intro to his work, his book

and his business.  A graduate of Harvard’s Divinity School his voice is a refreshing perspective of the world we live in.  

“Every time your brain has a success, you just changed the goalpost of what success looked like. You got good grades, now you have to get better grades, you got into a good school and after you get into a better one, you got a good job, now you have to get a better job, you hit your sales target, we’re going to change it. And if happiness is on the opposite side of success, your brain never gets there. We’ve pushed happiness over the cognitive horizon, as a society. And that’s because we think we have to be successful, then we’ll be happier.”

Shawn breaks down the discipline of building happiness with a finite set of exercises.   Get Happy! & Do it Soon!