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Monday Morning Wake-Up Call…

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25% of job success is predicted by I.Q. 75% is predicted by your optimism levels…

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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.  Worthy video.  I’ve pulled some of his points from the video below:

…Why? Why is it that some of you are so high above the curve in terms of your intellectual ability, athletic ability, music ability, creativity, energy levels, your resiliency in the face of challenge, your sense of humor?

…when I turn on the news, it seems like the majority of the information is not positive, in fact it’s negative.  Most of it’s about murder, corruption, diseases, nature disasters.  And very quickly, my brain starts to think that’s the accurate ratio of negative to positive in the world.  What that’s doing is creating some called the medical school syndrome – which, if you know people who’ve been to medical school, during the first year of medical training, as you read through a list of all the symptoms and diseases that could happen, suddenly you realize you have all of them.

…See what we’re finding is it’s not necessarily the reality that shapes us, but the lens through which your brain views the world that shapes your reality.  And if we can change the lens, not only can we change your happiness, we can change every single educational and business outcome at the same time.

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