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Happiness Advantage

This is one of the best TED talks ever! Shawn Achor has a wonderful way to explain his research topic “positive psychology”. First he rises the energy levels in the audience by telling a wonderful story from his early childhood and once everyone is waiting for the next joke to arise he explains his research findings over the last years. Here some quotes out of his talk:

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.

90 percent of your long-term happiness is predicted not by the external world, but by the way your brain processes the world.

We’ve found that there are ways that you can train your brain to be able to become more positive.

By doing these activities and by training your brain just like we train our bodies, what we’ve found is we can reverse the formula for happiness and success, and in doing so, not only create ripples of positivity, but create a real revolution.

Very inspiring talk and a great summary of his book: “Happiness Advantage

Leave your comment what you think about this talk and maybe you have another awesome TED talk to share.

Where is home?

After traveling to so many amazing places and living at great destinations for months this question was in my head for a while and I didn’t have a great answer.

Then I stumbled on this awesome and very inspiring TED talk: “Where is home?” from Pico Iyer and he came up with a great definition for me as well

“Home is where you become yourself”

Another great quote from Pico Iyer is about traveling which holds true for myself as well:

“Traveling is a little bit like being in love, all your senses are turned on”

or

” Traveling is not like seeing new sights it is looking with new eyes”

If you get the chance watch this great and inspiring TED talk, or some of the others TED talks