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Book Name: The Happiness Advantage
Authors: Shawn Achor
Pages: 225
Genre: Self Help
Publish Date: Sep 30, 2011
Language: English

Book Review:

The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor this formula is not legit sean argues that we actually have the formula backward that success doesn't result in happiness but rather happiness is the key ingredient of success in other words by reversing the formula

We can maximize our own potential and actually the research from over 200 studies on happiness and psychology with over 275 000 participants has shown that happiness leads to success in

So many different domains as sean argue waiting to be happy limits our brain's potential for success whereas cultivating positive brains makes us more motivated efficient resilient creative and productive which drives performance upwards

So that's what sean means by the happiness advantage it's the advantage we have in all of the different domains of our lives from like relationships health jobs creativity productivity like all of the different things and he talks about lots of different evidence-based tactics that we can use to increase our own baseline levels of happiness

The most enjoyable part of an activity is not the activity itself but the anticipation thirdly committing to conscious acts of kindness fourthly exercise and fifthly using a signature character strength which he elaborates more on in the book

So we know that happiness is largely a choice and there are different things we can do to increase our own levels of happiness but sean argues that mindset is one of the most important things and that brings us to point number two in this

Which is the fulcrum and the lever in the immortal words of albus dumbledore give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it and i shall move the world sure argues that our brains operate on

This formula too and he says that our power to maximize our potential is based on two important things firstly the length of the lever i.e how much potential power and possibility we believe we have and secondly the position of our fulcrum which is the mindset with which we generate the power to change sean cites quite

A few studies that support the general view that our mindset changes the way that we experience the world but one of the most famous ones comes from 1979 and that was when researchers found a group of 75-year-old men and told them to pretend as though it was 1959. everything was designed to make them think they were still 55 rather than 75.

After only a week of doing this 20-year time travel experiment thing the researchers measured different physical and mental attributes of the men and they found huge improvements in things like appearance memory and even intelligence and essentially this study illustrates in a really cute way

How if we change our mindset we can actually affect genuine change in ourselves and in the world around us but it's all well and good having a certain mindset but we also want to seize opportunities when they when they come along and that's what sean calls

The tetris effect basically the tetris effect is the idea that our brains are constantly looking for patterns that we can fit to the world around us and what sean says in the book is that there are two sorts of people two different types of tetris mindsets firstly we've got the negative tetris effect which is what happens

When our brains get stuck in patterns that hurt our chances of success and then we have the positive tetris effect which is what happens when our brains have been trained to look for opportunities that increase success

So the idea here is that if we're the sort of person who has a more positive tetris effect mindset depending on how the how the bricks fall we're gonna do what we can our brains have been trained to react to them in a more positive way whereas we'll probably know people

Who have more of a negative tetris effect in their life no matter how the circumstances no matter how the bricks fall they end up their brains end up finding negative patterns but the good news is that we can actually train ourselves into and out of these different mindsets.

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