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The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience

The Greatest Competitive Advantage | Summit Keynote Speaker Shawn Achor

The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience

Tom Ferry

Education, Business, Self-improvement

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

What is the greatest competitive advantage in modern economy?   Seems like a loaded question, doesn’t it? But if you ask Shawn Achor, one of today’s leading researchers in the field of positive psychology, the answer is very simple – happiness.   That’s right… Turns out that starting with happiness might just be the key to unlocking your greatest competitive advantage, making you more productive, influential, and successful.   So, how do you unlock happiness before achieving your desired success? That’s what we’re unpacking not only in this episode of the Tom Ferry Podcast Experience, but also at this year’s Success Summit! That’s right…  I’m super excited to announce that Shawn will be our keynote speaker at the 20th anniversary Summit in Dallas, August 22-24!    On this episode, Shawn provides the perfect introduction by sharing with me two behavioral changes and one specific mindset shift that you need to make to open your life up to optimism and joy.   Watch, listen, and start these mental exercises now to fully prepare yourself for when you arrive in Dallas! If you don’t have your ticket yet, grab it today.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So here's the thing, entrepreneurs, leaders, salespeople.

0:05.9

We all want to create consistent, repeatable, and scalable ways to grow our business and

0:10.1

our income.

0:11.1

And we want to do it better, faster, and more seamlessly.

0:14.2

Why?

0:15.2

So we can actually enjoy our lives, take vacations, and spend the quality time that we want

0:18.9

with the people that we love.

0:20.6

How do we do all this without spending a fortune or running ourselves ragged?

0:24.9

That's the big question, and this show is dedicated to the answer.

0:31.0

Hey, so welcome back to the podcast.

0:34.6

I am super excited.

0:37.0

First, that you are listening, and secondly, because of my guests.

0:41.6

Now before I tell you who he is, I'm kind of obsessed with this guy.

0:47.3

And mainly for the work that he's done, one book that I'm not going to hold up yet, because

0:51.3

I don't immediately give it away if you're watching this on YouTube.

0:54.4

But I'll just say it has something to do with something I talk about a lot, which is

0:58.4

just how do we find more joy and happiness as we deal with the stresses of our business

1:03.9

life, our personal life, that, you know, constantly being pulled at as, you know, speaking

1:08.2

to the choir here, you know exactly what I'm saying.

1:11.4

But it's not just that I'm obsessed about his work, but it's that I finally get to share

1:16.3

the stage with him.

1:17.3

Yes, he is our guest speaker.

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