Thanks I needed that. Been depressed lately. Change is possible.

Always great to hear Shawn Achor's inspiring conversation on happiness!

Shawn Achor makes my heart happy :) Watching this seminar while working on a friday at work = definitely the best way to end the work week!

Happiness can be measured by the lack of stress. You are right, happiness should not be gauged by pleasure. I'm happiest when I have no worries.

Happiness is a choice!

* Write down 3 new things you are grateful for each day into a journal. * Write for 2 minutes a day describing one positive experience you had over the last 24 hours. * Exercise for 10 minutes a day (at least). * Meditate for 2 minutes, focusing on your breathing. * List 3 Great Things you encountered or accomplished yesterday. * What are you looking forward to tomorrow? What would make your day awesome? * What are two things that make you exceptional? * Write a message on FB first thing in the morning thanking or praising a friend. * Smile at strangers.

@gangstersayfock

7 жыл бұрын

Great! Thanks for sharing! I Do them all :D

@ngocthanhvyphan1357

5 жыл бұрын

Great! Thanks a lot. But how can do all? How many things i should do at least?

@davidzhorwath

3 жыл бұрын

So, what’s happiness?

@jdt8983

2 жыл бұрын

And then combine this with some Dr Huberman podcast tips and become a happiness ninja

had to watch it back to back.. incredible. there is a potential revolution instilled within Shawn's philosophy and findings, and i hope I am privileged to live in the world that is a display of such principles and virtues.. share, but ACT

It's always a pleasure to hear Shawn Achor discussing happiness!

Shawn Achor is one of my speakers that has a lot of good information. There is so much bad news anymore we must get his information out to people. The news media loves bad news. In fact, I've heard it said that "bad news" is "good news" for the "bad news industry" like NBC, ABC and Fox news. That's why I like social entrepreneur work.

That was empowering and inspiring Shawn, Thank you.

Thank you so much Shawn.

I have watched this talk a lot the last two years! I think something like 15-20 times and I learn everytime some new things and I try do implent the things they talk about in my daily live. I succeed in doing the 10 to 5 way in my neighbourhood and it is really nice! I have benefit a lot from it! I also think a lot of times: "I wish for that person he or she will be happy". I do it usually when I am with a group of people like on a birthday or when I have Floorball (sport) training on university. I notice that I feel more happy and that the atmosphere changes for the better. I am very gratefull for that exercise and it helped me a lot! I also sent those thank messages where Shawn Talks about. It helped me a lot and made me more happy. I also made a lot of other people happy and it feels great to open my mailbox, because I really got a nice respons of people. Thanks for sharing this video and thanks Shawn for your research!

I absolutely love this guy. Shawn's pretty cool, too. ;)

He was very enlightening and refreshing. Very thought provoking.

from the ancient greek,the joy that we feel striving for our potential

Great talk Shawn, thanks for sharing your insights and wisdom.

amazing talk! so glad you got him on!

We can tell you're happy, because your brain is smiling!

I love your talks!!! You're terrific! Who you are makes a difference!! Thank you for sharing. I wish I was in the room, in Abu Dhabi, when you were here. I live in AD!!! Please come back!!! Stay well and keep sharing your message! :D Aloha, Denise

as soon as he started talking about productivity I just bowed out

I'm feeling joy watching this :)

Happy Thanksgiving!

This is such a fantastic discussion. We are actually starting up a tech company in Waterloo that is dedicated to building software that will support this kind of thinking both individual and organizational happiness. Shawn and Meng are both champion exemplars of how life should be lived and we should be grateful as a race to have them leading the charge.

I’ll start genuinely smiling! Loved tha ending ‘ gratefulness’ story

Thanks Shawn for your story! I am very gratefull that told it in this video and i am looking forward to read your book the hapiness adventage! I learned a lot from you!

Enjoy your videos - saw one 12 minute video of yours, and went out and bought 2 of your books immediately.

Amazing 🤩 l listened to the Ted Talk and sent it to my boss and we are going to start implementing a happiness way at work. Being in the travel industry it has been a huge challenge and I am so grateful to have found this talk. 🙏

What a wonderful talk this is. Lots of information on how to make better decisions. I like how he is advocating taking a frame of reference and using that to solve for your own situations rather than a list of things to do to be more happy. He still gives some tips but each one is linked to the ideas so you can see how it fits. Give people the tools and they fashion solutions that are right for them.

Excellent !! It was wonderful.

Thank you Shawn Achor.

Fantastic.

Love it. Happiness must be studied!

One of my lessons is - if you lack notoriety borrow it from others - this is an excellent example with the host "riding on" the notoriety of Shawn Achor - another example is myself, sharing this.

Very insightful

amazing talk thanks

I love this video!!!

Wonderful.

Smile, mirror, success: optimism, social, stress. Architect positive stuff over and over, privilege, rational optim

21:00 Gold

Nice Humanistic thoughts and thinking in relationship to life, but it really boils down to is Attitude, The longer I live the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. "Attitude to me is more important than facts, its more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. Its more important the appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company...a church...a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. the only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude...I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you...we are in charge of our attitudes." Chuck Swindoll

@michelleconen6993

4 жыл бұрын

D Jeff well said, I totally agree with you 🤩🤩🤩

Happiness comes when you have meaning in ypur life. Pleassure is not happiness. Pleassure can be addictive and is instant cratfication. Its not long term. Keep growing and your happiness will grow too

@GrowthMindsetChannel

5 жыл бұрын

You are right! Well said

What positive habits programs are available in the Google work environement? Thank you,

51:33-What I find interesting is how often that saying comes up in the Google discussions. "I heard the saying, 'You are the average of the 5 people you associate with the most."

I wish there was a way to leave more than one likes!

amazing. Thank you 2304234234234 times

KEN!

I would like social psychologists to also study people who are choosing more hedonistic paths. Say - people who are into hook up culture etc. Seems like a subcategory of that culture, "pick up artists," are generally unhappy. Maybe too machiavellian. Wondering how certain athletes (say MMA fighters) stack up too (although those guys get brain damage so it's hard to have a base line). Lots of negativity in the UFC. Stephen Wonderboy Thompson being an exception. Or military even. Probably a difference between a guy who goes to war believing in the cause vs someone who just can't afford college

Shawn Achor inspired a few of us at the University of Virginia. We decided to conduct a social experiment during finals week. It was a success. Feel free to check it out on my channel. Stay tuned for more...

Stephen Nock I think you may enjoy this when you find an hour.

I'm kind of frustrated with this. Shawn keeps talking about a "program" or a "plan" that folks can do to put these theories into practice. He talks about sending out three positive emails every morning, physical exercise, writing down what you are grateful for and he alludes to a 7 (?) part program. So I went out and bought all his books, studied, highlighted, etc. But I cannot find anything written about this plan that he speaks of and how to do it!?!?

@captaincarl1

7 жыл бұрын

* Write down 3 new things you are grateful for each day into a journal. * Write for 2 minutes a day describing one positive experience you had over the last 24 hours. * Exercise for 10 minutes a day (at least). * Meditate for 2 minutes, focusing on your breathing. * List 3 Great Things you encountered or accomplished yesterday. * What are you looking forward to tomorrow? What would make your day awesome? * What are two things that make you exceptional? * Write a message on FB first thing in the morning thanking or praising a friend. * Smile at strangers. (Reposted from Above)

@anastasiamelnikova7599

7 жыл бұрын

captaincarl1

@MargotAntonella

7 жыл бұрын

He guides you through this in his book "Before Happiness"

Need to have a Cal Newport and Shawn Achor roundtable. Cal Newport's ideas appear to conflict greatly and I think Cal presents the stronger case.

“Love will do that which argument will fail to accomplish. But a moment’s petulance, a single GRUFF ANSWER, a lack of Christian politeness and courtesy in some small matter, may result in the loss of both friends and influence.” --VSS 82.2 Wow when you called that guy who didn’t buckle his seat belt an “Idiot.” It was hard to listen to you like i did before. You may want to choose another word to describe him and others who may have interpreted your message wrongly.

best moment [19:30]

Is it plain or "plane"

he literally just spoke for an hour, memorizes everything he was gonna say, did not drink any water or seem tired... an hour?!?!

@kristianlysgaard5204

8 жыл бұрын

+Steven Lee He really is amazing.. If you watch a lot of his videos you can see his strategy.. In the beginning when he is asked about his earlier book he immediately switch over to the talk(s) he has been doing for years.. even the timing and the jokes are the same.. Pretty annoying when you want to hear something new :) but also a pretty good strategy as he doesnt have to come up with a new way to say the same thing every time..

@suavedave69

8 жыл бұрын

+Kristian Lysgaard Why do you keep listening to him then, if he says the same thing every time? Haven't you learned his message yet?

@MsGnor

8 жыл бұрын

+SuaveDave She's optimistic? :))

@lindyvandenbosch9539

5 жыл бұрын

Its called passion

Bunu Türkçeye çevirebilecek biri var mı. İzleyecek çok kişi olacaktır eminim ki

Epigenetic’s now prove that yr genetic structure is variable

Don't be an irrational optimist.

It's an unintelligent and weird psychology that we should just "imagine" to be happy and be happy when he states that we are determined by our genes and environment anyway.

@willianrosales3330

10 жыл бұрын

You are subject to your environment and the physical aspects of your life but you can think of your senses like winds and your mind like a sailboat. There is absolutely nothing you can do about these winds that are outside your control circle but just like in the ocean you can use these winds to push your in the direction you want to go. If you merely sit there and never learn to channel your environment, you will be all over the place and never feel like you're going anywhere because you have abosultely no control of your sailboat (your mind). Happiness is not an obtainable object, happiness is the natural state of your mind. When you add stress, anxiety, anger and frustration then you are knocked off your still state and get cought in the storm. So learn from yourself and from what's around you to take control.

9 жыл бұрын

Willian Rosales beautiful comparison!

Ironic how the author of the book on happiness, whos main message is to be kind and thankful managed to include so many jabs and demeaning comments about the groups of people he lectured, from Wall Street types, Asian businessmen to the guy who offered him a ride to the airport and wanted to hire him to better his startup. What happened to his happiness, joy and gratefulness? Even more interesting the very smart people at Google, surely thought something along the lines ´the way he talks about other groups, what is he going to say about us.´ Achor´s next book should be: ¨ After Egotism: ¨Why I am superior, and you are dumb.¨

@1TicTacPat

9 жыл бұрын

Interesting interpretation. Well he is right when it comes to taking in life through different lenses. Our interpretations and reactions to this Q and A where totally different from one another. I found him to be quite funny and thought provoking. Your view was a result critical thinking. Don’t get me wrong critical thinking is a very important skill to practice, but doesn't easily identify his ironic and sarcastic humor. Watch some of his other videos, he is delivering a very beautiful message and does it in a humorous way.

@rodneysanchez2939

9 жыл бұрын

Sal Cha Who hurt you?

@nbson9715

9 жыл бұрын

Pirilu 23 you're obviously a pessimist! It's just a speach Pirilu23- he uses it to keep the audience engaged and laughing- light hearted. If you remember, he went on to explain about the guy not wearing a seatbelt as being an irrational optimist- an example where people can take this idea out of context just as you are with his speach tecniques.

@pirilu2371

9 жыл бұрын

Lol... i´m glad you are such an a new wave optimist... i didn´t know that putting people down or offending cultures was a cool way to engage audiences. Go Happiness!

@nbson9715

9 жыл бұрын

Pirilu 23 I'd like to see a few speeches from yourself-- you seem to have all the optimism we all apparently seek. Hopefully my sarcasm isn't offensive to you as well...maybe you can continue on with your Britney Spears and Mariah Carey youtubing adventures to keep you occupied in your own perfect bubble world, my friend.

I don't see why short-term happiness is bad? If you know what you're doing.

@Dman9fp

3 жыл бұрын

It's just not sustainable in the long haul and is far less rewarding than meaningful pursuits that foster growth is the issue. Just a hypothetical example: if someone is chasing sex flings to be happy, the cycle just continues on and at best they are just satisfied. But that will end one day, whether by inability to find partners or the satisfaction doing the same activities repeatedly make the activity dull. Whereas in a meaningful pursuit with opportunities for loads more creativity and growth- there is still a chance for stagnation but also loads more chances for happiness. I've realized this before, the chase for fleeting pleasures eventually becomes futile for most people, but chasing meaningful fulfillment is very worth it (even if not always successful/ can be more painful than rewarding at times, but the long term trends are usually better) so I'm glad someone is expressing this