For two minutes a day, think of one positive experience that's occurred during the past 24 hours. Bullet point each detail you can remember. It works, because the brain can't tell the difference between visualization and actual experience. So you've just doubled the most meaningful experience in your brain.
Shawn AchorThe idea of investing in the positivity of employees is often low down on companies' priority lists.
Shawn AchorScientifically, happiness is a choice. It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its finite resources as you process the world.
Shawn AchorWhen a manager openly expresses his faith in an employee's skill, he doesn't just improve mood and motivation; he actually improves their likelihood of succeeding.
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