Consuming Negative News Can Make You Less Effective at Work Harvard Business Review, Shawn Achor & Michelle Gielan September 2015 We’ve known for some time now that hearing negative news broadcasts can have an immediate effect on your stress level, but new research we just conducted in partnership with Arianna Huffington shows how significant these negative…
Locke Hughes | Greatist, August 2015 6 Small Shifts to the Way You Talk That Will Make You (and Everyone Else) Happier at Work Ask us how we’re doing at the end of a long, stressful workday, and chances are you’ll hear, “I’ve been better” or some equally snippy response. Although it may be unintentional,…
Brigid Schulte | Washington Post, August 2015 A great tip for improving your day: Start it by reading ‘transformative’ news, researchers find The old news adage, “If it bleeds, it leads,” underlies a belief that sensational, often negative news is what appeals to people, and what sells advertising. In her new book, Broadcasting Happiness, journalist-turned-happiness…
Make Yourself Immune to Secondhand Stress Harvard Business Review, Shawn Achor & Michelle Gielan September 2015 Over the past decade, we have learned how our brains are hardwired for emotional contagion. Emotions spread via a wireless network of mirror neurons, which are tiny parts of the brain that allow us to empathize with others and…
The Upside of Being Under Pressure Together Success Magazine, Shawn Achor September 8, 2015 As part of an ROTC scholarship, I spent a summer during college in naval training. It taught me a lot about dealing with adversity. Every night of boot camp, we would go to bed fully clothed for a 4 a.m. wakeup. We were…
Jennifer Moss | HBR, August 20, 2015 Happiness isn’t the Absence of Negative Feelings Happiness feels intolerably elusive for many of us. Like fog, you can see it from afar, dense and full of shape. But upon approach, its particles loosen and suddenly it becomes out of reach, even though it’s all around you. We…
Why You Need Positive People in Your Life Success Magazine, Shawn Achor August 24, 2015 One big mistake people make is not realizing that happiness is an individual choice. But every choice is influenced by the people in our lives. If you change your life influencers for the better, you can dramatically increase your chances for happiness…
These Two Minute Daily Habits Will Make You Happier Immediately, Researchers Say Brigid Schulte | Independent, July 2015 To those who think of happiness as a “nice to have” luxury or something that comes after a lifetime of sacrifice of single-mindedly driving to achieve a goal, happiness researcher Shawn Achor, head of Goodthink and author…
What You Think You Become Success Magazine, Shawn Achor July 2, 2015 “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve,” Napoleon Hill once said. “The mind is everything. What you think, you become,” Buddha taught. You’ve heard high-minded quotes like these all your life. Now science has caught up. We can finally quantify and…
Kathy Caprino | Forbes, June 2015 When I was in my corporate life years ago, I could see very clearly how bad news and rampant negativity could crush an organization and everyone in it. I didn’t understand until I became a therapist and career coach, however, exactly what to do about it – in other…
