675: How to Boost Your Brain for Better Happiness & Performance with Eric Karpinski
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 10 June 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Eric Karpinski reveals why investing in your happiness leads to better performance at work.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The secret to boosting your brain power at work
2) The one question to jumpstart your happiness habit
3) How to make stress work for you
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— ABOUT ERIC —
Eric Karpinski has been on the cutting edge of bringing positive psychology tools to workplaces for over 10 years, with clients that include Intel, Facebook, TIAA, IBM, T-Mobile, Kaiser Permanente, SAP, Deloitte, Eli Lilly, Genentech and many others.
He is a key member of Shawn Achor’s GoodThink team, and developer of the Orange Frog in-house certification program, where he’s trained more than 100 facilitators to lead positive cultural transformation at their organizations. He was trained as a scientist at Brown University and has an MBA from the Wharton School.
• Book: Put Happiness to Work: 7 Strategies to Elevate Engagement for Optimal Performance
• Book Website: PutHappinessToWork.com
• Resource: PutHappinessToWork.com/resources
• Website: EricKarpinski.com
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• Product: Flow Hive
• TED Talk: Shawn Achor
• Term: Pecha Kuchas
• Past episode: 087: More Positivity with Michelle Gielan
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required |
| 0:08.6 | to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.2 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.2 | With your host, Pete McHydus. |
| 0:16.2 | Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 675 of the Eric Karpinski. |
| 0:24.4 | Eric shares why investing in your happiness makes your brain work better and you work |
| 0:29.1 | better at work. |
| 0:30.1 | So you'll learn one, the secret to boosting your brain power at work. |
| 0:33.3 | Two, the one question to jumpstart your happiness habit and three, how to make stress work |
| 0:38.3 | for you. |
| 0:39.3 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to outings we've |
| 0:41.7 | referenced, please drop on by awesome at your job.com slash EP 675. |
| 0:47.2 | And if you're at awesome at your job.com, I encourage you to check out our gold nugget email |
| 0:50.7 | list, which gives you a summarized right up of Eric's wisdom in your email inbox. |
| 0:56.3 | You can reach in about three minutes. |
| 0:58.0 | And that also unlocks the vault of all of these gold nugget writeups. |
| 1:01.3 | And that's called the gold nuggets at awesome at your job.com. |
| 1:04.6 | Now here's Eric's story Eric Karpinski has been on the cutting edge of bringing positive |
| 1:08.3 | psychology tools to workplaces for over 10 years with clients that include Intel, Facebook, |
| 1:12.7 | IBM, and many others. |
| 1:14.6 | He's a member of Sean Acor's good thing team and developer of the orange frog in house |
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