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EDITORIAL REVIEW: **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 coun

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Author

Shawn Achor

Publisher

Broadway Books

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307591555

Category

business

Subjects

Self Help, Psychology, Business

Rating

4.15 / 5 (11,633 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13