Happy Brains Work Better! :)

Shawn Achor has a great TED Talks video about happiness and how our brains work better when they are happy.  It is called "The Happy Secret to Better Work."  At the end of the clip he discusses strategies to becoming happier and how to incorporate these strategies into your daily schedule. Check it out here.

If you liked this clip, he also has a book, The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work.  I'm about a third of the way through it right now, and like it so far.  I was afraid it would be too full of psychological and scientific jargon that I wouldn't be able to understand it, but it is written almost exactly like he speaks in his video.  I also like the colour of the cover and the smiley face, so I included it here (copied from Amazon's website).