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The Jordan Harbinger Show

614: Shawn Achor | Leveraging the Happiness Advantage

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Jordan Harbinger

Education, Business, Science

4.812.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Shawn Achor (@shawnachor) is one of the world’s leading experts on the connection between happiness and success, and is the author of Big Potential, Before Happiness, and The Happiness Advantage: How a Positive Brain Fuels Success in Work and Life.

What We Discuss with Shawn Achor:
  • What did Shawn have to teach Pentagon bigwigs about happiness?
  • The science behind the contagiousness of happiness.
  • The importance of mirror neurons.
  • What is the 10-5 Way, and how can it improve your life?
  • At what point in her career was Oprah most depressed, and why should you care?
  • And much more...

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Coming up next on the Jordan Harbinger Show.

0:02.8

Doing each of these habits, what we find is your brain actually starts to create a new pattern

0:07.4

for how you look at the world. Instead of looking the world and saying,

0:10.5

here are all the mistakes I see, here are all the fires I need to put out first.

0:14.8

If you do that, your brain never sees the positive. But if you start with a positive scanning for it,

0:19.2

it turns out not only do you see that, but you have the energy and the intelligence to then start

0:23.2

solving the problems you see within that environment as well. Welcome to the show, I'm Jordan Harbinger.

0:31.9

On the Jordan Harbinger Show we decode the stories, secrets and skills of the world's most

0:35.7

fascinating people. We have in-depth conversations with people at the top of their game.

0:39.8

Astronauts, entrepreneurs, spies and psychologists, even the occasional former G-Hadi,

0:44.7

national security advisor or music mogul. Each episode turns our guests wisdom into practical

0:50.3

advice that you can use to build a deeper understanding of how the world works and become a better

0:55.0

critical thinker. If you're new to the show or you want to tell your friends about it,

0:58.5

we've got our episode starter packs. These are collections of top episodes organized by topic

1:03.1

that will help new listeners get a taste of everything we do here on the show. Just visit

1:07.3

jordanharbinger.com slash start to get started or to help somebody else get started.

1:12.8

Today we're talking with Sean Acor. When we recorded five, six years ago on happiness,

1:16.8

this was really popular when it first aired. We decided to remaster it, re-edit it for you

1:21.2

here this week, giving me more time to change diapers on our two-week-old daughter who was born

1:25.6

over the break. He's a New York Times best-selling author of both the happiness advantage and before

1:30.0

happiness. So, he's a happiness researcher. At Harvard, no less. He now consults at the NFL,

1:35.0

NBA, DOD, lots of other three-letter places and he's got a documentary on PBS and HBO.

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