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

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

How would you like to unlock hidden sources of potential in yourself and others? Our guest, Shawn Achor, feels it’s possible to do just that. Shawn is the New York Times best-selling author of The Happiness Advantage and Before Happiness and is known as one of the world’s leading experts on the connection between happiness and success. His latest book, Big Potential: How Transforming the Pursuit of Success Raises Our Achievement, Happiness, and Well-Being, is now available on Amazon. 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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