Shawn Achor, a celebrated Harvard author of “The Happiness Advantage” mentions that the ground- breaking research in positive psychology and neuroscience has proved that the relationship between success and happiness works backwards. Belief systems of youth are honed around the telltales that happiness orbited around success, but neuroscience proves that the opposite is true. Our executive functions of decision making, planning, skilful listening, growth mindset, self-reflection, positive engagements, big thinking, risk taking and risk bearing capacities, resilience, self-regulation, etc., make us emotionally intelligent and these functions work in optimum capacities when we put happiness before success.
That means the amount of stress a young graduate goes through to reach his/her goals, lands up diminishing the executives’ capacity just by waiting to become happy and feel successful.
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