Thursday, September 1, 2011

Wisdom of Play, by Shawn Acher


In Shawn Archers video he discuses’ how the relationship between success and happiness has been corrupted over the years. People have allowed the amount of money and their success defines if they are happy or not. Once you achieve something there is momentary bliss and then you are stressed again trying to be more successful.  At the end of his speech he challenges the listeners to be a part of a 21 day challenge where you use one of his five research habits to try and find happiness in your daily life. I am going to try it but using the first option and write down three things each day that I am thankful for. Doing this is supposed to show an improvement in your optimism and increase your success rates. The other four are writing for two minutes a day to describe a positive experience from that day, to increase work happiness; or exercise for 10 minutes a day to train your brain to believe that behavior matters in your success; or meditate for 2 minutes a day to undo the negative effects of multi-tasking in your life, this decreases stress; and the last one ids to write an email or note the first thing in the morning to someone in your life praising them or thanking them.

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