The Happiness Advantage

This book highlights the science behind positive psychology and its impact on workplace success. It demonstrates how happiness fuels productivity, creativity, and resilience, leading to improved performance and better outcomes.

By cultivating positive emotions and fostering strong relationships, you can create a more supportive and enjoyable work environment for everyone.

This book changed my life. It’s my top recommendation for friends and family and the one I reference most during my leadership workshops. Why? Happiness is truly one of the biggest advantages of life. Not only is it a predictor of career success, but it also paves the way for deeper, more meaningful connections with the people around you.

I’ve probably read Achor’s a dozen times now, and with each reading, I discover some new secret for rewiring my brain to see the best in myself and the world at large. Thanks to the gratitude tools I’ve incorporated from this… show more.

While the title may be the last thing a person experiencing grief wants to read, the science and reasoning behind the recommended habits we can build are practical and useful. This book is not written for a reader who is grieving but more for a person pursuing a more general career and life self-help, so it isn’t full of stories about grief being transformative.

The author is a Harvard lecturer who studies positive psychology. His guidance on pursuing happiness is provided in a way that is actionable and not overwhelming. 

This is another book that can inspire you in your daily life and change your perspective. A call for happiness!

Despite what we believe, happiness breeds success, and not the other way around… quite an important distinction. This very well-researched book by a specialist from Harvard University also argues that our brain is flexible enough to change whatever our age, and that it is always possible to mitigate our negative perception of reality.

This leads to a more positive way of thinking that will create the conditions to achieve what we want and lead an exciting life! After reading this… show more.

Archer’s years as a Harvard professor lend him an effective and authoritative voice, and his message—be happy first—resonates with the philosophies of mindful leadership. His seven principles of positive psychology, from the Tetris Effect to Falling Up, speak to power of our thinking to generate fulfillment and success. He’s precise yet expansive in his examination of how the psychology of happiness impacts our professional lives.

The Happiness Advantage is a simple yet profound book, that allows us to recognize and access those things that make us happy and successful at work. 

In this book, Achor “flips the script.” Conventional wisdom says that happiness is the result of seeing your dreams realized. However, recent discoveries in the field of positive psychology have shown that happiness actually fuels success, not the other way around. And, he proves it through research. When we have a positive outlook on life, our brains are more engaged, we are more resilient and energetic.

Isolating seven practices that can help anyone elevate their happiness, Achor takes the reader down the path of offering practical advice on how you can capitalize on the Happiness Advantage to improve your performance… show more.

When you have happiness as a baseline, life is just better. Shawn takes you through the academics of happiness, and all the research. Like Brene, Shawn is Texan, and they are both gifted storytellers. Easy, fun read. By an academic for regular folk, this book is full of useful information and exercises to make your life better.