具体描述
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 have shown that this formula is actually backward: Happiness fuels success, not the other way around. When we are positive, our brains become more engaged, creative, motivated, energetic, resilient, and productive at work. This isn’t just an empty mantra. This discovery has been repeatedly borne out by rigorous research in psychology and neuroscience, management studies, and the bottom lines of organizations around the globe.
In The Happiness Advantage , Shawn Achor, who spent over a decade living, researching, and lecturing at Harvard University, draws on his own research—including one of the largest studies of happiness and potential at Harvard and others at companies like UBS and KPMG—to fix this broken formula. Using stories and case studies from his work with thousands of Fortune 500 executives in 42 countries, Achor explains how we can reprogram our brains to become more positive in order to gain a competitive edge at work.
Isolating seven practical, actionable principles that have been tried and tested everywhere from classrooms to boardrooms, stretching from Argentina to Zimbabwe, he shows us how we can capitalize on the Happiness Advantage to improve our performance and maximize our potential. Among the principles he outlines:
•The Tetris Effect: how to retrain our brains to spot patterns of possibility, so we can see—and seize—opportunities wherever we look.
•The Zorro Circle: how to channel our efforts on small, manageable goals, to gain the leverage to gradually conquer bigger and bigger ones.
•Social Investment: how to reap the dividends of investing in one of the greatest predictors of success and happiness—our social support network
A must-read for everyone trying to excel in a world of increasing workloads, stress, and negativity, The Happiness Advantage isn’t only about how to become happier at work. It’s about how to reap the benefits of a happier and more positive mind-set to achieve the extraordinary in our work and in our lives.
作者简介
Shawn Achor, a member of Oprah's SuperSoul 100, 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. Shawn has become one of the world's leading expert on the connection between happiness and success. His research on happiness made the cover of Harvard Business Review, his TED talk is one of the most popular all time with over 4 million views, and his lecture airing on PBS has been seen by millions. Shawn teaches for the Advanced Management Program at Wharton Business School, and collaborates on research with Yale and Columbia University.
In 2007, Shawn founded Good Think to share his research with the world. Subsequently, Shawn has lectured or researched in 51 countries, speaking to CEOs in China, school children in South Africa, doctors in Dubai, and farmers in Zimbabwe. He has spoken to the Royal Family in Abu Dhabi, doctors at St. Jude Children's Hospital, and worked with the U.S. Department of Health to promote happiness. In 2012, Shawn helped lead the Everyday Matters campaign with the National MS Society and Genzyme to show how happiness remains a choice for those struggling with a chronic illness.
Shawn graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and earned a Masters degree from Harvard Divinity School in Christian and Buddhist ethics. For seven years, Shawn also served as an Officer of Harvard, living in Harvard Yard and counseling students through the stresses of their first year. Though he now travels extensively for his work, Shawn continues to conduct original psychology research on happiness and organizational achievement in collaboration with Yale University and the Institute for Applied Positive Research.
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用户评价
我是一个对数据和实证研究非常看重的人，很多“软技能”书籍对我来说常常缺乏足够的信服力，因为它们更多依赖于情感共鸣而非硬核证据。这本书在这方面做得非常出色，它像一座坚固的桥梁，连接了积极心理学的研究成果与日常实践。作者在每一个论断的背后，几乎都能引用到最新的学术研究，这让整个论述体系显得非常严谨和可靠。书中关于“社交资本”和“关系联结”如何成为幸福基石的部分，尤其让我醍醐灌顶。我过去常常把精力集中在个人成就的提升上，而忽略了高质量人际关系的重要性。这本书清晰地阐明了，一个支持性、积极互动的社交网络，不仅是心理上的慰藉，更是应对压力和实现长期成功的强大缓冲器。它让我开始有意识地投入时间去维护和培养那些真正能带来正向反馈的关系，而不是泛泛而交。这种基于科学证据的指导，让我对所采取的行动更有信心，也更愿意长期坚持下去。
如果要用一个词来形容这本书带给我的感受，那就是“结构化的希望”。它并非简单地贩卖廉价的乐观主义，而是提供了一套系统性的、可量化的框架来提升个人的“幸福商数”（Positive Quotient）。书中将幸福感拆解成了几个可操作的变量，并针对每一个变量提供了具体的提升方法，这一点对于我这种习惯于“目标管理”的人来说，简直是雪中送炭。我尤其喜欢其中关于如何设定“精神目标”而非仅仅是物质目标的讨论。它引导我超越了“我需要赚多少钱”或“我需要爬到哪个职位”这样的外部标准，转而关注“我希望成为一个怎样的人”这种内在驱动力。这种深层次的价值重塑，是很多同类书籍无法触及的。它不仅帮助我提高了工作效率，更重要的是，它让我对自己的人生方向感到了前所未有的清晰和满足。读完后，我感觉自己不再是被动地等待好运降临，而是拥有了一套工具，可以主动地、科学地去构建一个更令人满意的现实。
这本书的叙事风格非常引人入胜，读起来完全没有那种枯燥的学术气息，更像是一次与一位睿智朋友的深度对谈。作者非常擅长用生动的故事和恰当的案例来阐述复杂的心理学概念。我特别欣赏作者在书中穿插的那些关于顶尖运动员、商界领袖以及普通人在逆境中如何运用积极心态实现反弹的故事。这些真实案例极大地增强了理论的说服力，让我能够更容易地将书中的原则内化到自己的经验框架中。举例来说，书中关于“习得性乐观”的讨论，让我深刻理解到，我们看待失败的方式，才是决定我们未来走向的关键。过去，我常常将一次挫折视为能力上的永久缺陷，导致在下一次尝试前就心生畏惧。但通过书中的引导，我学会了将失败重新定义为“信息收集”的过程，这让我的韧性得到了极大的提升。阅读体验的流畅性，加上内容的深度，使得这本书成为一本我愿意反复翻阅、每次都能从中汲取新养分的宝藏。
坦白说，我最初拿到这本书时，有点担心它会落入那种老套的励志文学窠臼，充满了鼓舞人心的口号却缺乏实质性的内容。然而，我错了，这本书的深度远超我的预期。它没有简单地告诉你要“想得好”，而是深入剖析了大脑的神经科学基础，解释了为什么保持乐观心态能够增强我们的解决问题的能力和创造力。特别是关于“投入”（Engagement）的那一章，给我留下了极其深刻的印象。作者巧妙地将积极心理学的原理与工作场景下的“心流体验”联系起来，让我开始重新审视自己目前的工作流程。我意识到，很多时候效率低下并非因为能力不足，而是因为任务设置得过于单一或者缺乏即时反馈，无法激发我的全部潜力。这本书提供了一系列构建“积极环境”的策略，从优化工作空间到建立支持性的团队文化，这些建议都具有很强的可操作性，并非空中楼阁。它鼓励读者主动去塑造能让自己处于最佳状态的环境，而不是被动地等待环境的改变。这种主动权被重新交到读者手中的感觉，让人感到振奋和赋能。
这本书简直是打开了我对“成功”这个词的全新认知。我一直以为，努力工作、达成目标是获得幸福的路径，这本书却提出了一个颠覆性的观点：积极的情绪才是驱动我们走向成功的燃料。读完之后，我开始反思自己过去那种“先苦后甜”的心态，发现自己总是把快乐放在遥远的未来，而忽略了当下拥有的微小成就和正面感受。书中对于“正念”和“感恩”练习的阐述，不仅仅是空泛的口号，而是提供了切实可行的操作步骤。我尝试着每天早上花五分钟写下三件值得感激的事情，起初觉得有点做作，但坚持了一段时间后，真的察觉到自己看问题的角度发生了微妙的变化，对那些曾经让我感到烦躁的日常小事，也变得更加宽容和豁达了。这种由内而外的转变，比任何外部的物质奖励都更让我感到踏实和持久。它让我明白，提升幸福感并非奢侈品，而是提高工作效率和人际关系质量的必备“工具”。这不仅仅是一本关于自我提升的书，更像是一本关于如何更聪明地生活、更有效地实现个人潜能的实战指南，其对行为心理学的引用也非常扎实，让人信服。
书的很多内容都是common sense. 但是又有很多research to back it up. 生活中需要有这种被别人告知的时候 嘿 继续开心下去吧 不会有坏处的
看不下去。翻来覆去的讲happiness的好处，大家都happy了，还需要你来提好处么？写书的风格、口气非常像商人。作者不过是《哈佛幸福课》的助教，书中内容多数在Tal Ben-Shahar的《哈佛幸福课》中讲到。
“When we are positive, our brains become more engaged, creative, motivated, energetic, resilient, and productive at work. ” True, to a certain extent. It's also true that people often make stupid mistakes when they are overly happy, like spending too much money or making commitments that they can't keep.
概念是好的，就是作者话有点多啊
第二遍读的时候 又明白好多
