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Found 23 comments on The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work:

u/Magzter · 110 pointsr/Frugal

If anyone is intersted in this then I highly suggest you watch this TED talk with Shawn Achor. It goes on to explain positive psychology, a relatively new field in psychology that has confirmed that people need to be happy in order to maximize their potential to be successful and not successful to obtain happiness, as is widely believed and virtually how the majority of the worlds work force is managed.

If you enjoy that than I advise you to check out his book "The Happiness Advatnage". It's a great read. Perspective really does change the reality in front of us.



u/takeachancethrowaway · 12 pointsr/lawschooladmissions

- Amy Cuddy's book and TED Talk (tl;dr: your body language shapes how you feel; pose like Wonder Woman and fake it until you become it)
- Shawn Achor's book and TED Talk

- pretty much everything by Brené Brown, but The Gifts of Imperfection is a good place to start

- find a therapist trained in CBT who can help you identify and reframe negative thoughts. If working with a therapist IRL isn't possible right now, try an app like Joyable

- law school specific book recommendations: How to be Sort of Happy in Law School and The Anxious Lawyer. I've also heard good things about this podcast.

u/nofap_lurker · 11 pointsr/NoFap

part 2 How I achieved my streak


The only way I was able to beat my masturbation addiction was to replace the bad habit with good ones. I devoured information, clips, books, articles anything someone recommended I checked out to see if it could help me. I developed exercise habits, I now jog regularly. I cleaned up my diet. I quit coca cola, I change to the Paleo diet, cutting out Gluten, and eating many more healthy fats. I started supplementing my diet and Ive turned my life around. Each success fuelled another success. Not masturbating, lead to Exercising. Running meant I eat heathily. A clean diet, free of brain fog meant I picked up a book. Reading lead to mindfulness. Being aware of my self image and my thoughts, lead to an increased confidence and lessened anxiety. This fuelled my desire not to partake in MO. The cycle continues. Each new habit compounded the others until I was a completely different person in such a short space of time.


I’m going to list a few of the key resources I used.


Some of you I’m sure will like reading, some prefer visual stuff so here are some of the things I use.


Jim Rohn-Best life Ever- (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwXxhgCbVLk)


Browsing one of the other subs someone mentioned this seminar as one of the most influential things they’d come across. As soon as I started watching it I knew I had to not only watch it but make notes. I now have it downloaded from torrents and as an mp3 on my phone. Please please don’t be put off by its length. Everytime I watch it I gain something new. This nofap journey is not something that you will conquer overnight, and if you cant watch the above lecture in a few sittings I promise you wont be able to abstain from wanking for 30 days let alone 90/200 plus. I cant cliff the lecture but I used it now, as jim states in the talk to alter my personal philosophy to my betterment. If I had watched this as a 21 year old I have no doubt that my life would be extremely different than is today.


A further inspirational Jim Rohn Speech (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFEqiDRwXcM)


If your still with me please now watch this clip. Internalise it and make it your mantra. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p13UFYTQG8)


When I was a kid, Will smith was the fresh prince and an absolute joker, but in my 20 years from adolescence to adulthood, he became arguably the biggest star in Hollywood. Although you may not respect him as a philosopher and he can come across somewhat corny, ignore your instinctual pessimism and listen to the message he says. Again I wish I’d heard this in my late teens.


Running


I started my No fap Journey weighing 230lbs or 105kg. I’m now down to 187lbs or 85kg. I was drastically unfit. How did I do this. I began running. Started off slowly, followed a program and was consistent. Running to me has always been something I thought I naturally couldn’t do. The program I followed was the Couch to 5k one. The beauty of this is that it everything is prescribed. You literally cannot fail if you follow each session. Every time you complete a week not only will your fitness increase to be able to take on the next week of the course, so too does your confidence in your running ability. I have to tell you the satisfaction I felt after completing the final week, was something I hadn’t experienced in over a decade. I liked that feeling so much it spurred me to help with other challenges. Since completed C25km, Ive also done my first 10km race. I now run 5km 4-5 times a week and honestly I love it.


Reading


One of the takeaways from the best life ever Jim Rohn, was his stance on reading. In it he asks the question “ how many books have you read in the last 90 days?” well for me it was the same answer as the last decade. ZERO. This revelation startled me. I knew this had to change. So in keeping with the other improvements I was making I decided to research the best books on personal development. Here are a couple that I would absolutely recommend that I have finished in the last 250 days. – Ive linked the wikis I would recommend each of the books to help with your own personal development
Psycho cybernetics
The Slight Edge
Happiness Advantage
Power of Now
Models
Learned Optimism
Furthermore I have compiled a massive library of books that I am planning to read. Again having not Engaged my brain in this pursuit for the past decade this has been a real struggle for me. However turning up and being consistent, making time for this instead of watching Netflix is an investment in myself and I cant emphasis how crucial to my success this has been.

u/thebuddy · 11 pointsr/DecidingToBeBetter

I have found that becoming happier is the key to achieving more:
(Here's a highly-recommended book about that very topic: http://www.amazon.com/The-Happiness-Advantage-Principles-Performance/dp/0307591549)

  • Smile more often. Smiling releases endorphins and serotonin. Even fake smiling. Smiling begets more smiling.

  • Start and/or end your day by writing about the positive things that happened to you that day. Many people write a list of things they're grateful for. Personally, I just write about the positive things I encountered each day. I prefer to do this at the beginning of each day. It puts you in a positive mindset to start your day.

  • Start each day with a 'win'. Achieve or overcome something early in the day, especially if it's something you didn't want to do. This can help put you in a positive mindset to start your day.

    Read self-help books. As people, we know very little. Accept that and revel in the fact that you can spend your life learning from other people's mindsets and perspectives.

    Some recommendations:

  • How to Win Friends and Influence People (Learn how to deal with people better. Maybe the Holy Grail of self-help books. Having better interactions with people makes you a happier person and boosts your confidence.)

  • The Power of Habit (Work on building good habits. This book also talks about an important principle, a "keystone habit" - a strong habit to adopt that shows you that you can make other improvements in your life and as a result motivates you to do so.)

  • Think and Grow Rich (Become more motivated and believe more in yourself. Not just about becoming rich.)

  • The Happiness Advantage (Learn more about positive psychology and the power of happiness as a motivational factor in your life.)

  • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

    I have found that most things I've read in these books are things I already "knew", but didn't really internalize until reading about them.

    You can use an app/website like Blinkist to get the key insights of many of these books summarized for you. I find that doing that in addition to reading/listening to the book really helps you absorb the information better.



u/nodamnsgiven · 6 pointsr/suggestmeabook

The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor.
In the book you learn to see success as something that follows happiness, not the reverse. This book cites many studies and positive psychology concepts. The ideas are easy to swallow and easy to apply. I am adopting a positive mindset and taking steps to improve myself and my professional performance. Overall, I have better days and see fewer reasons to feel depressed or sorry for myself and feel hopeful for my future.

u/SucklemyNuttle · 6 pointsr/consulting

Man, I'm so late to this thread but hope this doesn't get buried--what you talk about is covered at great length alongside a TON of other empirical evidence and research in a book I love called "The Happiness Advantage."

The argument there is: we think achieving goals makes us happy, but in reality, achieving a state of happiness in life helps us achieve goals. It's a ton of eye-opening research, advice, etc. that I've passed along to others as well as the book itself. Cheers!

u/bhrgunatha · 5 pointsr/suggestmeabook
  • A quick read with some easily adopted things to try: Shawn Achor - The Happiness Advantage - seven usable habits that have scientific research backing them up. That doesn't mean they're infallible, but the book gives you plenty of suggestions for things that will give you a boost.

  • It's a bit of a cliché now, but for long term growth: Stephen Covey - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Even if you can only take on board one or two of these habits, they can have a good effect on you. I struggled with the way he presents the habits, but I think they are valid and solid ideas for expansion. The story of Victor Frankl alone in the early part of the book had a profound and long lasting effect on me for example.
u/Winnarly · 5 pointsr/GetMotivated

22 here and a semester away from finishing a degree in bio engineering. I go in cycles of being extremely motivated to being extremely sedentary, and for a long time this stressed me out like crazy. I used to be obsessed with figuring out how to trigger my motivated-self and how to keep from drifting out of it and it drove me nuts because it seemed like I couldn't do anything to control myself. It wasn't until my third year of college that I decided to simply have faith in myself and stop worrying about it. This marked a pretty incredible change for me. I still went in cycles, but the lows weren't nearly as low or long or miserable and the highs were higher and longer.

You need to stop beating yourself up over not living up to your potential or whatever. You're 17. A slump now is not going to ruin your life.

You know that Chinese proverb, "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step"? If you like a task is overwhelming, then break it down until you find something you can handle. It doesn't matter if you're deciding you want to become an astronaut or if you want to clean your room. Doesn't matter how silly it might be that a task seems overwhelming, the way you get past that feeling is to break it down. Whenever I don't want to get up and go for a jog I will focus on simply standing up, or shutting my laptop, or putting on shoes. Anything that gets me one step closer towards that jog is 99% of the time all I need before the momentum/motivation gets me running.

By the way, listen to this TEDxTalk by Shawn Achor and if you really like it then get a copy of his book The Happiness Advantage. I'm about halfway through it and I already think everyone should read it.

Hope that helps.

u/kaswing · 4 pointsr/intj

I'd be down! I'm in the DC metro, if anyone wants to meet someone local.

A bit about me:

  • My partner of 2 years is also an INTJ: we are a great team. (Also, I'm not here looking for a romantic connection.)

  • It is important to me organize my life to support happiness because of the evidence that happiness leads to success (rather than the other way around). Here's a book about it.. This pursuit has changed my life, as my natural tendency is to the cynical and detached.

  • I moved to the DC area from southern CA to pursue an interdisciplinary, mixed-methods social science PhD about 6 months ago. I'm really happy with it and excited to pursue research as a career.

  • I come from a really religious, fairly conservative household, and I'm learning how to navigate my relationships with my family as a relatively newly-minted liberal wackjob.

  • I have a cat. Her name is Mandelbrot (after this guy). When she is being a pest, I call her "Mandible-beeblebrat."

  • My primary hobby is visual art. I do a lot of monochromatic, 2D stuff but I work in lots of different media: pen, india ink, watercolor, and most recently, textiles. I'm learning to use Illustrator right now.

  • While I've been writing this my Spotify played Tom Petty, Rod Stewart, Sylvan Esso, Justin Timberlake, Elvis, and Die Antwoord. I'm not embarrassed; take that how you will :)

  • I'll turn 30 this year. This year was the best of my life, so I look forward to seeing how next year will beat it.
u/DummyDepression · 4 pointsr/DecidingToBeBetter

Yep, Visualization did jack shit for me too. I've read many self-help books, and so far the only ones that have helped me were those written by scientists who have researched their field for a long time, and people recommend them, that also had practical exercises in them. Very specific, but that's the truth. Here's a list:

u/KevType9 · 3 pointsr/financialindependence

Go take some time to yourself man. Figure out some ways to make yourself happier in the present. Take a look at The Happiness Advantage if you haven't in the past, it is a very scientific book that outlines proven ways to improve your current happiness.

I'm a big believer in the hedonic treadmill. Be wary of any time you are sacrificing your happiness now in order to become happier in the future. You COULD be making a mistake.

EDIT: and if you do decide to go the lower-income route, make sure to sub to /r/leanfire!

u/pixelneer · 3 pointsr/Design

OH No doubt. As I said.. you STILL have to pay fair wages...

Actually just started reading The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work

This guy proposes that our model is wrong.. we chase money thinking that more will bring us happiness... which it never does. Instead, we focus on being happy and by doing so, we inevitably make more money because we are more productive etc. (I KNOW sounds like total self help BS) but, Google, Coca-Cola and others have this guy come in and model their 'cultures' following the same principles...

Actually found him via his TED talk ...


EDIT sorry.. thanks /u/julian88888888 nice article.. clipped to my evernote on this very topic..

u/BasicDesignAdvice · 2 pointsr/getdisciplined

mostly meditation, exercise, and a positive journal. i try and meditate twenty minutes daily and i also write one page in my journal everyday. i also exercise for a half hour every day (alternating running and body weight training). my journal entries start with three things i am grateful for and/or make me happy, followed by one in detail description of something positive from the last twenty four hours. both range from large things to small, as long as they make me happy. both of these train your brain to scan the environment for positive things.

all of this is stuff i learned from The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor, whom i discovered via his TED talk.

if you like i can send you the ebook version that i have. that book really changed my perspective on my own thoughts. overall a hugely rewarding read. i think i liked the book so much because it was exhaustively cited. Achor himself is pretty accomplished in the field of positive psychology.

u/greatjasoni · 2 pointsr/JordanPeterson

That's called imposer syndrome. Look it up. Literally every graduate student has it. It's very normal.

Creatine is a substance found in high end red meat and fish that most people are deficient in. It's usually taken by bodybuilders as a workout supplement but many people take it for their brain. It's pretty much like taking a vitamin. You can find it at mist pharmacy's or on Amazon. People who are deficient in creatine, which is most of the population, can see about a 5iq point boost. It's one of the most well studied substances that exists, there's 0 downside to it as far as I can tell. (Omega 3 is good as well, but it's less dramatic and more well known)

Depression can also lower your iq by a good few points. Although if you already exercise you're probably doing most of what you can to manage it. A dietary change can help a lot with your overall brain power too. Look into a keto diet, or read an experiment to find a good diet, and you'll have a lot more energy to get things done. You said you have a healthy diet so you're probably good on this, but if you're still feeling bad the diet might not be healthy enough even if you think it is. Many people react differently to different things and there's a ton of misinformation as to what constitutes healthy.

Being a graduate student is a miserable job. You're working absurd hours for bad pay and expected to do amazing things with low odds of success. It's normal to feel the way you feel. Maybe get a therapist. Even if you're not depressed, just talking this stuff through will help you feel better and thus be more productive. Happy people tend to be significantly better at their jobs than unhappy ones so if you can learn to be happy it'll help quite a lot.

I'd recommend the book feeling good, as well. It's basically a guide to doing cognitive behavioral therapy on yourself. I disagree with the philosophy of the book, it maintains that its irrational to be unhappy regardless of circumstance. It's something Jordan Peterson is completely opposed to. However the methods of the book are scientifically sound and Peterson has vouched for the utility of cbt and uses it himself depending on the patient. It'll help you notice a lot of bad and irrational thought patterns and counter then with thoughts more congruent with reality.

u/JeepGuide · 1 pointr/AskProgramming

Since you brought up wellness, I'll also suggest looking into the Happiness Advantage. "Your brain at positive performs significantly better than at negative, neutral, or stressed." TED talk: http://on.ted.com/Achor (I recommend watching the entire thing, but specifically start at 9:15 if you're stretched on time). One of Shawn Achor's books:
http://amzn.com/0307591549

u/nafai · 1 pointr/selfhelp

I'm in the middle of reading The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor which has been my first exposure to Positive Psychology and I feel like he has done a great job of introducing the topic. He does reference other leaders in the field, so I'm going to try to use it as a jumping off point to other resources.

u/Macromancer11235 · 1 pointr/GetMotivated

Yes and no, to those hypothetical scenarios, as hypothetically, everything is possible, impossible, true, and not true, so I'm sorry I ever used an allegory-example. :p
But you've clearly misunderstood everything I've said (which is probably my fault); especially that part about a goal; there really is no goal. Though, a point of life-retirement usually comes naturally with older age and/or much experience, and so a dying passion for life; unless one is severely unhappy, though I, of course, can't speak for everyone. How could one truly be uninterested in life without experiencing much of it? Let me put some more emphasis on the word truly.

Again, the word "success" is very subjective; I guess my definition of "success" is synonymous with "happiness", which is a means, not a goal; goals are illusions. Studies have shown that when we're happy, we naturally expand ourselves, and so those around us who's willing. If we're not, then we won't, and create a (illusory) comfort zone and (illusory) ego.

PLEASE just check out some basic Neuroplasticity and at least a synopsis of the book "The Happiness Advantage", and re-read my posts. :)

Book: http://www.amazon.com/The-Happiness-Advantage-Principles-Performance/dp/0307591549
Neuroplasticity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroplasticity
Relevant article: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/use-your-mind-change-your-brain/201305/is-your-brain-meditation

u/[deleted] · 1 pointr/science

Shawn Achor's book "The Happiness Advantage" is really fascinating. I saw a lecture he gave on PBS and I was amazed at some of the results of his studies:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Happiness-Advantage-Principles-Performance/dp/0307591549/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1382888692&sr=8-1&keywords=the+happiness+advantage

u/lucasandrew · 1 pointr/DecidingToBeBetter

I would recommend The Happiness Advantage. Still one of the best books I've read and really helped me, specifically for putting my problems in perspective.

u/4Nuts · 1 pointr/BettermentBookClub



>Don’t Try
Don’t try to achieve this more and more mentality society tells you to do

  • isn't hope, the interest to have more a motivation for life?
    If you don't want more, you are losing interest out of life; you are mentally dead. Wanting more is normal and natural.

    >Happiness is the problem
    >Find something worth struggling for, not what makes you happy

    The science is clear: happiness helps to achieve; to be more productive. You can check out the happiness advantage (https://www.amazon.com/Happiness-Advantage-Principles-Psychology-Performance/dp/0307591549) if you think happiness is irrelevant. Indeed, the happiness of an individual is a predictor of his success in many aspects of his/her life.

    >You are not special
    >The first step for meaningful self-improvement is admitting you’re normal

    Well, unless I am a narcissist, I admit that some part of me is normal; and some part of me is specific to myself. Isn't it a biological reality that every individual is unique to some degree (specific DNA)? how about people are not normal? What if I have a lower IQ than the regular people, am I supposed to consider myself as "normal"?
    This is a stupid generalized advice without considering the reality about each individual.



    This is fucking childish book. I don't want to waste my time pointing out every fucking flawed advise (claim).
u/camonz · 1 pointr/pics

actually… While the concept of 'weak mind asking for attention' is certainly a falacy you should read this The Happiness Advantage. Here's a video presentation of the book