Shawn Achor: ...the importance of spending time with the right people

Nobody Told Me!

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The connection between happiness and success is the topic with our guest, Shawn Achor, the best-selling author of “The Happiness Advantage” and “Big Potential: How Transforming the Pursuit of Success Raises Our Achievement, Happiness, and Well-Being”.

You can learn more about Shawn on his website: http://www.shawnachor.com.

(This is a repost of a previously aired episode with Shawn.)

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Jan Black. And I'm Laura Owens. How would you like to unlock hidden sources of potential in yourself and in others?
0:21.9	Our guest, Sean Acor, feels it's possible to do just that, and he's written about it in his
0:27.0	latest book entitled Big Potential, How Transforming the Pursuit of Success, raises our
0:32.9	achievement, happiness, and well-being.
0:35.6	Sean is a best-selling author and one of the world's leading experts on the
0:39.0	connection between happiness and success. Sean, thank you so much for joining us.
0:44.1	Oh, thank you so much for having me. Tell us how you became interested in the connection
0:49.4	between happiness and success. That's fascinating to us. So it was a little bit of a journey.
0:56.6	I grew up in Waco, Texas, and I applied to Harvard University
1:01.6	on Adair and got in, but then couldn't afford it
1:05.0	and got a military scholarship to go there.
1:06.8	So for me, it was just such an incredible honor
1:09.2	and privilege to be there.
1:10.1	I was so grateful for every day I was there.
1:12.5	But as I looked around at the other students, I realized that that mindset wasn't necessarily
1:16.6	shared, that 80% of the students who were going there went through depression, even though
1:22.1	they were at this incredible school and they had had all these successes.
1:26.2	10% of them had contemplated suicide at some time
1:29.1	during their four years there. And I realized something was wrong. And after I graduated, I went to
1:34.7	the Divinity School and looking at religious ethics, looking at your belief systems and how
1:39.3	you, you know, how your mindset changes the actions you make. And while I was doing that,
1:44.2	some people in the psychology department said, hey, we can actually study the connection now
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