How and when happiness can become an asset to generate performance...
Posted
by
Riccardo Paterni
on
02/10/2025
As Martin Seligman, the founder of positive psychology, has been articulating for almost two decades, happiness springs from three key factors: pleasure, engagement and meaning.
Quite often we assosiate happines simply to the first factor that in reality generates some sort of short lived empty happiness, when we find actual engagement and meaning to add they give to it a long lasting powerful boost.
This book by Shawn Achor builds on this and points out a key scientific finding:
happiness at work generates performance and achievememt not the other way around.
Achor points out seven key principles to apply in terms of behavior in order to implement this on a daily basis.
During these times of consistent change and challenges it is well worth learning more about this perspective that can be applied to any sort on context once we are open to the necessary mindshift that engages it.