February 13, 2014 – Goodthink Inc.

SUCCESS: Holiday Cheer

Business, Health & Wellness, RelationshipsBy February 13, 2014

Holiday Cheer: Small steps can bring a little more joy to the world. Shawn Achor History offers some dramatic examples of how the human brain is designed for emotional contagion. Perhaps the craziest on record is the Dancing Plague of 1518. It reportedly began when a woman, Frau Troffea, started dancing in the streets of Strasbourg,…

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: Are Happy People Dumb?

Business, Health & WellnessBy February 13, 2014

“Happy people are not the smart people.” I was talking to a stock trader shortly before giving a lecture at a large bank in New York. I think he thought I was a fellow trader, but I felt a little awkward at this turn in the conversation… as my lecture topic was the research case…