Month: April 2018

Using the path of least resistance to build new habits — Excerpt from The Happiness Advantage

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In the following paragraphs, Shawn Achor explains how he managed to form a new daily habit by planning ahead and making it easier for him to play his guitar every day. THE 20-SECOND RULE How to Turn Bad Habits into Good Ones by Minimizing Barriers to ChangeD uring one of the first trainings I ever … Read more

Lessons from The Happiness Advantage

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I recently stumbled on Shawn Achor’s Ted Talk about Happiness. I immediately liked what he presented when he talked about the Cult of the average in psychology. What the cult of the average does is, in simple terms, ignore the outliers in our data. Actually in psychology for many years attention was paid to the … Read more