Shawn Achor: The Happiness Advantage
Shawn Achor says that most modern research focus on the average, but that if we focus on the average, we will remain merely average. He wants to study the positive outliers, and learn how not only to bring people up to the average, but to move the entire average up.
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ABOUT Shawn Achor
“His research and lectures on happiness and human potential have received attention in The New York Times, Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, as well as on NPR and CNN Radio, and he travels around the United States and Europe giving talks on positive psychology to Fortune 500 corporations, schools, and non-profit organisations.
Achor graduated magna cum laude from Harvard with a BA in English and Religion and earned a Masters degree from Harvard Divinity School in Christian and Buddhist ethics. Now he is the CEO of Aspirant, a Cambridge-based consulting firm which researches positive outliers-people who are well above average-to understand where human potential, success and happiness intersect.
Based on his research and 12 years of experience at Harvard, he clearly and humorously describes to organisations how to increase happiness and meaning, raise success rates and profitability, and create positive transformations that ripple into more successful cultures.”
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