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The Happiness Advantage
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The Happiness Advantage

How a Positive Brain Fuels Success in Work and Life

by Shawn Achor

Recommended by Nicholas C. Zakas

Recommended by Nicholas C. Zakas

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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Happiness, Motivational, and Personal Development.

Our most commonly held formula for success is broken. Conventional wisdom holds that if we work hard we will be more successful, and if we are more successful, then we'll be happy. If we can just find that great job, win that next promotion, lose those five pounds, happiness will follow. But recent discoveries in the field of positive psychology ha...

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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Happiness, Motivational, and Personal Development.

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