by Shawn Achor
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Key Ideas:
Happier people have more energy, creativity and are more productive.
Prestige and external success won’t make you happy.
To be happier, journal, exercise, meditate, do random acts of kindness.
Other interesting notes:
Write down three new things that you’re grateful for, 21 days in a row. At the end of that, their brain starts to retain a pattern of scanning the world, not for the negative, but for the positive first.
Journaling about one positive experience you’ve had over the past 24 hours allows your brain to relive it.
Exercise teaches your brain that your behavior matters.
Meditation allows your brain to get over the cultural ADHD that we’ve been creating by trying to do multiple tasks at once and allows our brains to focus on the task at hand
Random acts of kindness makes you happier.
Find something to look forward to.
Exercise a signature strength.
Thoughts on the book:
*Didn’t need to be a book, in fact it’s well summarised in the last 2 minutes of the TED talk.
Longer summary/notes: SD
If you like this, you’ll probably like: Stumbling on happiness, Guide to the good life, TED talk, books
Leo :) 