His conclusion is strongly proved by data from 48 countries, 275,000 people and 225 sub-topics. Happiness can bring great changes to organizations and individuals: the average productivity of organizations increases by 3 1%, the average customer satisfaction of enterprises increases by 12%, the work efficiency increases by 16%, the work engagement increases by 32%, and the job satisfaction increases by 46%.
Sean summed up seven happiness rules from "Happiness Competitiveness" and brought them into the global top 500 enterprises since 2008. 2012,65438 10 According to the article in Harvard Business Review, the greatest competitiveness of enterprises in modern society is to have happy, active and dedicated employees.
Everyone has a different definition of happiness, and the author attributes these feelings to "the experience of positive emotions". Positive emotional experience-in addition to pleasure, it also includes a profound sense of meaning and purpose, which includes a positive attitude towards the present and a positive outlook for the future.
Misunderstanding about happiness:
1. Happiness is a luxury, or the reward of a lifetime of hard work. Some people even think that happiness is a sign that you are not working hard enough.
Nowadays, society pays too much attention to negative phenomena. It can be seen that every day we report negative phenomena everywhere from news websites and friends circle, such as depression of urbanites, the harm of drugs, accidents, corruption, murder and so on. Negative things have an inevitable psychological impact on us.
As we all know, our brain works in a positive state, which is completely different from the efficiency it can achieve in a neutral or negative state. Positive state obviously has advantages. Psychologists have concluded that doctors in a happy state are much better than doctors in an unhappy state in terms of accuracy and speed.
Psychologist losada has a famous losada ratio: in a company, the ratio of positive interaction and negative interaction must reach 2.90 13, that is to say, the negative effect produced by one negative interaction must be offset by three positive interactions. This is a critical point. The proportion is low and the performance is declining. Enterprise managers should actively create a positive energy atmosphere in the company.
A few tips to improve happiness;
Meditation: Pay attention to breathing and keep mindfulness. Meditation can change the brain structure, thus improving happiness, reducing stress and improving immunity.
Expectation: always look forward to good things and put them on the agenda.
Do good: Do good every day.
Exercise: Exercise can make the brain secrete a chemical substance that causes pleasure-endorphin.
Use advantages: The more advantages you use, the more flow experiences you have and the happier you are.
? The promotion potential is based on: 1, leverage, and believe in your own potential and possibility; 2. Fulcrum, change mentality, increase potential and gain strength.
1979, a scientist named Ellen Langer organized an experiment for a group of 75-year-old people. These old people don't know the real purpose of the experiment, but they are told to stay in the convalescent center for about 1 week, and they can't bring any photos, newspapers, magazines and other books after 1959.
When they arrived at the sanatorium, they were told that in another week, the time would return to 1959, when these old people would be 55 years old. Within a week, these old people were asked to show and talk about the same topics as when they were 55 years old. The surrounding environment layout, including the programs on TV, is the world of 1959.
A week later, the researchers showed the photos of the old people before and after the experiment and guessed their ages. As a result, these old people look more than three years younger than before the experiment.
Change your view of things and find positive meaning in what you do. It is also a meeting. You think this is a boring meeting or give yourself a hint. I want to get three new things from the meeting. If I spend the same time, the meeting will be completely different.
Happy people need to have a growing mentality. Raul Dwek put forward the growth mentality and fixed mentality. The former refers to the belief that intelligence is plastic and can be improved, while the latter refers to the belief that intelligence is unchangeable. People with growth mentality think that excellent performance comes from hard work, while people with fixed mentality think that success depends entirely on innate ability. Research shows that people with growth mentality have higher achievements. After experiencing setbacks, people with growing mentality are more likely to persist, and people with fixed mentality are more likely to give up.
In the psychiatry department of Harvard Medical School, I did a test. The researchers asked 27 people to play Tetris for several hours every day for three days. Three days later, 27 people who participated in the study developed various symptoms one after another. Many people feel that Tetris is shaking in front of them. When they see the unevenness, they always want to find a cube to fill it in. Experts call it "Tetris effect", and it is very easy for the brain to fall into a certain way of looking at the world.
Fortunately, we can use this to start the positive Tetris effect. The best way to do this exercise is to record the good things that happen in your daily work and life.
When you ask yourself to recall or write down "three good things" that happened that day at a specified time every day, which can be before going to bed, your brain will be forced to look for the potential positive aspects in the past 24 hours-those things that brought laughter, the sense of accomplishment gained at work, the happiness with family and the expectation for the future.
5 minutes a day, which can train the brain to pay attention to and focus on the positive side of every day, pay attention to the possibility of personal growth and career growth, and take action accordingly. In the long run, our brains will push away the troubles and setbacks that once dominated until there is no room for them at all.
The Tetris effect of active participation can improve the team's losada baseline, make leaders give employees more appreciation and encouragement, and make the meaning and purpose of the work more clear.
There are three psychological paths after any crisis and predicament: spinning around in the existing position; Lead to more negative results; Be stronger after setbacks.
It is found that the third way is the difference between these people who have grown up from failure, which psychologists call adversity growth or post-traumatic growth. These people regard adversity not as a stumbling block, but as a stepping stone.
There is a kind of person in life who doesn't feel depressed and helpless in the face of one setback after another. These people seem to be immune to depression, and no matter what difficulties they face, they always believe that they can make a comeback.
Martin seligman found that these people made good use of a positive way to explain events, that is, an optimistic "interpretation style". Optimists interpret adversity as concrete and temporary ("it's not that bad, things will get better"). People with a pessimistic interpretation style regard these events as universal and permanent.
Belief directly affects behavior. People who believe in the latter statement fall into despair, stop trying or even give up life. This is an important discovery of seligman-"learned helplessness". I believe that people in the former will perform better under the encouragement of setbacks.
If you go to the bank lobby to handle business today, you suddenly meet someone robbing the bank and get catapulted to your left arm in the chaos. Do you feel lucky? Or misfortune? Different answers confirm different "interpretation styles".
Some companies are using "interpretation style" to select suitable candidates and have achieved positive results.
In the film The Mask of Zorro, at first he was a young and impulsive Alexander, whose passion far exceeded his patience and self-discipline. He wants to get rid of violence and justice, but he is eager to do it at once and win attention.
He is ambitious, but he is struggling. He felt out of control and powerless.
When Don Diego, an old swordsman, met him, Alexander was bankrupt, addicted to alcohol and became desperate.
Don Diego saw his potential, took him in and promised him that as long as he paid "effort and time", mastery and victory would eventually come.
At the beginning of training, the swordsman drew a circle on the ground, and he could only fight in this small circle. "This circle is your world and your whole life. Unless I allow it, you can't get out of it."
When Alexander mastered this small circle, Don Diego allowed him to try more skills slowly. One by one, he mastered everything, and soon he could beat his teacher.
Zorro's circle is a metaphor. The biggest driving force for success has always been to believe that our actions are valuable and that we can control our future.
At work, employees who feel more control will have better performance and higher satisfaction, and extend these benefits outward. These people have "internal control points" and think that their actions have a direct impact on the results, while those with "external control points" regard various events as determined by external forces.
At work, only by distinguishing what you can control and what you can't control and concentrating on the former can we increase the possibility of success and reduce the sense of frustration.
Old people can do some things at home, such as taking care of small plants, which can increase their sense of internal control and thus improve their happiness.
Reduce the motivation of the positive habits we want to start. The less energy you spend at first, the more likely you are to take action and stick to your habits. Increase the activation energy for the habits we want to avoid, and bad habits may change.
Research shows that teenagers will experience 2.5 times as much fun as watching TV and 3 times as much fun as sports activities when they are engaged in business hobbies. However, people still spend several times watching TV. This is because passive leisure needs less startup energy than active leisure.
Whether we realize it or not, smart businesses use our default choices everywhere, and the default choices in work and life shape our choices and behaviors.
A lot of knowledge is obvious common sense, but common sense doesn't mean that everyone will do it, such as exercising and staying away from soap operas, but we often don't want to do it and go back to our old habits. The "critical 20 seconds" reduces our energy to start action, and action is very important. Repetitive actions become habits, and people are a collection of habits.
The key to positive change is to turn the action you want to achieve into a habit. For example, if you want to get into the habit of running early, "the key is 20 seconds", put your running shoes in a conspicuous position, and put your running clothes at your fingertips when you get up.
For effective social investment, mutual respect, appreciation and sincerity are very important. The best way to establish more contacts at work is to get out of your desk. Expressing gratitude can strengthen personal and professional ties. Face to face communication, constant appreciation and feedback.
If you are a leader, you can not only strengthen your contacts, but also have the strength to cultivate a working environment that values rather than hinders social investment. Get new knowledge from colleagues every day and thank them in time. Human beings need social relations just as human beings need food and air. When we have relatives, family, friends and colleagues to rely on, our energy will multiply.
The researchers found that the correlation coefficient between social relations and happiness reached 0.7. Generally speaking, reaching 0.3 is a significant correlation.
Every positive social connection will produce hormones, which can reduce anxiety and improve our attention and concentration.
These seven laws are interrelated and can be combined with other laws to improve their effectiveness.
Change begins with ourselves, and the person we are most likely to change is ourselves.
Enlarge the advantages of happiness, influence the people around 1000, and build your own happiness competitiveness, thus creating a spiral effect.