Leveraging Emotions

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Lessons from Reading 1: The science behind the smile

Short term vs long term happiness

Short term happiness can be caused
by different sources:
Good health
Decent salary/income
Good romantic relationships
The impact of these sources of
happiness reduce after 3 months
Long term happiness can be caused
by smaller things:
Ability to look at the brighter side
of things
Having an appropriate level of
challenges
Having a rich social network

Real vs synthetic happiness

Natural happiness is the feeling we
experience when we get what we
want
This happiness is self generated
Synthetic happiness is what we
produce when we do not get what
we want
Deriving joy from new
circumstances that they face for
the first time
Some people think that synthetic
happiness is delusional
Synthetic happiness can appear
perfectly natural to the person
facing it

Lessons from Reading 1: The science behind

the smile
Happy vs fearful
employees
The miserable or poor
artist is not necessarily
more creative or
productive
Fearful employees are
less efficient than normal
employees
There are several ways to
increase happiness of
employees at work
Offering a task of
appropriate challenge
levels
Rewards work far better
than punishment
Money is often not the
best motivator at work

Focused vs wandering
mind
Mind wandering on job
reduces productivity and
happiness
Our minds wander for
almost 50% of the time
Wandering to
unpleasant topics can
lead to sharp decrease
happiness
Straying to positive
topics has no effect
Different types of work
lead to different levels
of mind wandering
A focused mind leads to
higher level of happiness
and productivity at work

Sources of happiness
Simple behaviors can
lead to long lasting
happiness
Commit to simple
behaviors
Meditate
Exercise regularly
Get enough sleep
Practice altruism
Volunteer at charitable
institution
Build rich social
relations
Write down things you
are grateful for

The secret to happy life is

not a secret at all

Lessons from Reading 2: Positive Intelligence

When people work with a positive
mind-set, performance on every
levelproductivity, creativity,
engagement improves
Yet happiness is perhaps the most
misunderstood driver of
performance

Help Your
Co-workers
Develop New
Habits

Change
Relationship
with Stress

Lessons from Reading 2: Positive Intelligence

Develop New Habits
Jot down three things
you were grateful for
Write a positive
message to someone
in your social support
network
Meditate at your desk
for two minutes
Exercise for 10
minutes

Help Your CoWorkers

Social support
providers people who
picked up slack for
others, invited coworkers to lunch, and
organized office
activities were 10
times more likely to
be engaged at work
and 40% more likely
to get promotion

Change Relation with

Stress
Stress is not just an
obstacle to growth; it
can be fuel for it
People get stressedout about being
stressed out
Situations involving
great stress helps
people grow; few
people grow on
vacation

The Happiness Advantage

For generation led to believe that happiness orbited
around success
But opposite is true.
Positive psychology has showed that success orbits around
happiness.

Putting the horse before the cart

Ways to create
positive workplace
Create
positive
workplace

Interact with
positive tone and
facial expressions

Lessons from Class: Evolution of Brain Structure

An Amygdala Hijack in Action!

For example: WRITING AN

ANGRY EMAIL IN CAPS
AND THEN SENDING IT!

Lessons from Class

Reaction vs Response

For example: When you REACT, you

are giving away your power. When
you RESPOND, you are staying in
control of yourself
Respond, Don't React
When you react to something someone says
or does, you may have a problem with
boundaries. If someone is able to cause
havoc by doing or saying something, she is in
control of you at that point and your
boundaries are lost.
When your respond you remain in control
with options and choices. If you feel yourself
reacting, step away and regain control of
yourself so family members cant force you to
do or say something you do not want to do or
say; and something that shows your
separateness. .
When you have kept your boundaries,

Activation Energy

For example: Personal

Hobbies

Shawn Achor The Happy Secret To Better Work

The LENS
What we find is not necessarily the reality
that shapes
Brain judges what it sees
The IIMB journey Success and happiness
External world can predict only 10% of the
happiness
90% of long term happiness depends on
how our brain processes the world
If we can change our formula for happiness
and success, we can affect the reality
The absence of disease is not health

Benefits of a Positive Outlook

Brain is 31 % more productive in
positive
than
in
negative
environment
Only 25% of the job successes is
predicted by IQ level, while 75%
of
the
job
successes
are
predicted by
- By your optimising level
- By your social support
- By your ability to see stress
as a challenge instead as a
threat
You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body

Capitalizing on the Happiness Advantage

Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our
levels of happiness and success

Meditation

Act of kindness

Spend money

Anticipate
future rewards

Positive
surroundings

Exercise

Exercise
signature
strength

By doing these exercises we can train our mind as we train our body and then we can reverse the
formula of happiness and success. By doing so we can not only create ripples of positivity but