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TEDxBloomington – Shawn Achor – "The Happiness Advantage: Linking Positive Brains to Performance"

Shawn Achor is the winner of over a dozen distinguished teaching awards at Harvard University, where he delivered lectures on positive psychology in the most popular class at Harvard. 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 organizations. 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 organizations how to increase happiness and meaning, raise success rates and profitability, and create positive transformations that ripple into more successful cultures. In Shawn’s TEDxBloomington presentation, he says that most modern research focuses 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. www.aspirantworld.com About …

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Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work

www.ted.com We believe that we should work to be happy, but could that be backwards? In this fast-moving and entertaining talk from TEDxBloomington, psychologist Shawn Achor argues that actually happiness inspires productivity.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http If you have questions or comments about this or other TED videos, please go to support.ted.com

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20. The Good Life: Happiness

Introduction to Psychology (PSYC 110) The last lecture in the course wraps up the discussion of clinical psychology with a discussion of treatment efficacy. Does therapy actually work? Professor Bloom summarizes the different types of influences that clinical interventions might have on people who receive therapy. Professor Bloom ends with a review of one of the most interesting research topics in “positive psychology,” happiness. What makes us happy? How does happiness vary across person and culture? What is happiness for? Students will hear how the most recent research in psychology attempts to answer these questions and learn how people are surprisingly bad at predicting what will make them happiest. 00:00 – Chapter 1. How and Why Therapy Works 07:48 – Chapter 2. Question and Answer on Therapy 11:16 – Chapter 3. Happiness and Positive Psychology 18:58 – Chapter 4. Getting Used to Happiness 42:41 – Chapter 5. Closing Remarks Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: open.yale.edu This course was recorded in Spring 2007.

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The Odyssey of Finding Happiness: An Autistic Manifesto

www.kingmikeforthesakeofargument.blogspot.com This is a Philosophical piece on how I cope with the meaning of life with autism. Feel free to comment if you like. The text for this is down below: This Piece is dedicated to the Many Friends who have stood behind me in times of confusion “Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured. ” Homer, The Odyssey It has been sort of a long bridge in life so far, I say. The Odyssey of my life is very complicated because I guarantee no one would want to be in my shoes with my high-functioning autism. As an out of the closet autistic, I have shared with a lot of people my ability to communicate greatly through writing. The great benefit of this technique is not talking to people face-to-face. I’m rather comfortable with the approach because every time I speak to someone verbally, I often feel like I have to hide in a closet. That sort of feeling drags on and on, and unfortunately, the feeling is a long term feeling. And that feeling is a drug of depression (no, I don’t take any narcotics, it’s a metaphor). I always thought that depression sort of came along with my disability, like I was the only one out of a lot of peers who had a dark feeling of sadness. My illness is sort of chronic; it sort of comes back when Im not expecting it, even when I’m enjoying the company of friends. It stings to a point where I become an eccentric, not wanting to be around anybody. I dare not to shed a tear …