“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” ANNIE DILLARD, IN THE WRITING LIFE Why are some people happier than others? They can’t just have landed with their bums in the butter, because some are happy even in the face of awful circumstances, while others are dogged by unhappiness when everything in their lives seems peachy.
Shawn Achor, bestselling author of Before Happiness and The Happiness Advantage, is one of the world’s leading experts on the connection between happiness and success. A lecturer on positive psychology at Harvard, he left to co-found GoodThink, a company that offers happiness training that ‘bridges the gap between academic research and the real world’. In his brilliantly entertaining TED Talk, ‘The happy secret to better work’, he argues that…
