Shawn Achor TED Talk: The happy secret to better work

In this video, Shawn Achor explained how we can change the current formula of attaining happiness and also how one can become happier and successful. Here are some of the key points from the video. 

Amy unicorn 

• Shawn's younger sister fell from the top of the bed and crashed to the floor with all four legs and hands instead of letting her sister cry and wake up their parents, shawn manipulated and told her sister how she's like a unicorn
•  her sister's thought immediately changed 

Current formula 

• students has this mindset of "if work harder, i'll be more successful and when i'm more successful, i'll be happier" 
• they tend to set their mind of what happiness is and they increase it's standard of attaining it
• for example if they get good grades, the next time they need to get better grades this mindset or formula does not really helps in attaining happiness 

New formula

• Shawn stated that if one can influence and raise the positivity of someone, then that someone will get a happier advantage 
• the brain performs better with positivity rather than under negativity or stress with positivity, the brain is much more productive where your intelligence and creativity increases 

To sum up, Shawn really did the opposite thing. He countered the current formula and created his own based on statistics. Personally, I found and agree on one of his statement of that the brain tends to be less productive when under negativity or stress because I encountered it before. His new formulas are what people to observe and try it out.