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    The Happiness Advantage | Summary
    The Happiness Advantage | Summary
    The Happiness Advantage | Summary
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    The name of Shawn Achor’s first book is “The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology that Fuel Success and Performance at Work” and it was released in September of 2010. This book was published by Random House LLC and it has remained on the bestseller list for quite some time. This book is responsible for changing the way that people from all over the world conduct their lives and careers. This book starts out with Shawn explaining his experience at Harvard University. He explained how his gratitude for being able to attend one of the best universities in the world caused him to fall in love with the school. Looking back, he was able to determine that his experience at Harvard was significantly impacted by his enormous sense of gratitude for being selected to attend. This insight was partly responsible for the inspiration behind the topics he would chose to research. Shawn points out the fact that Harvard is a very demanding university and most of the students who attend experience a great deal of stress due to these high expectations. A theory was formed and it basically stated that the students who do not have a sense of gratitude for being at Harvard become stressed easier.

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    PublisherSummary Station
    Release dateApr 6, 2016
    ISBN9781311538536
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      I heard the audiobook and this summary was of great help because it gave me the highlights I needed of every principle.
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      I generally don't like summaries, but this book seemed suitable for being summarized. The core message is: Happiness comes before success. It is the prerequisite of success.

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    The Happiness Advantage | Summary - Summary Station

    Summary and Analysis of "The Happiness Advantage:

    The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology that Fuel Success and Performance at Work" by Shawn Anchor

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    Copyright © 2014 by Summary Station

    All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof

    may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever

    without the express written permission of the publisher

    except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

    Printed in the United States of America

    First Printing, 2014

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    Table of Contents

    Summary and Analysis of The Happiness Advantage

    Part 1: What is the Happiness Advantage?

    Positive Psychology

    Tal Ben-shahar

    Part 2: The 7 Principles of happiness

    The First Principal

    The Second Principal

    The Third Principal

    The Fourth Principal

    The Fifth Principal

    The Sixth Principal

    The Seventh Principal

    Summary and Conclusion

    Thanks for Reading

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    Summary and Analysis of The Happiness Advantage

    Part 1: What is the Happiness Advantage?

    The name of Shawn Achor’s first book is The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology that Fuel Success and Performance at Work and it was released in September of 2010. This book was published by Random House LLC and it has remained on the bestseller list for quite some time. This book is responsible for changing the way that people from all over the world conduct their lives and careers.

    This book starts out with Shawn explaining his experience at Harvard University. He explained how his gratitude for being able to attend one of the best universities in the world caused him to fall in love with the school. Looking back, he was able to determine that his experience at Harvard was significantly impacted by his enormous sense of gratitude for being selected to attend.

    This insight was partly responsible for the inspiration behind the topics he would chose to research. Shawn points out the fact that Harvard is a very demanding university and most of the students who attend experience a great deal of stress due to these high expectations. A theory was formed and

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