Study after study shows that happiness precedes important outcomes and indicators of thriving.

As we got more interested in time management and productivity, we lost the individual, and with that individual loss, we lost happiness as well. So I think the world has actually been malnourished as we've focused so much on productivity and ignored happiness and meaning to our own detriment.

Waiting to be happy limits our brain's potential for success, whereas cultivating positive brains makes us more motivated, efficient, resilient, creative, and productive, which drives performance upward.

Scientifically, happiness is a choice. It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its finite resources as you process the world.

You can study gravity forever without learning how to fly.

The greatest competitive advantage in our modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.

Happiness is not the belief that we don't need to change; it's the realization that we can.