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Happy people are more successful than people who are less happy. That may seem like an exaggeration, but it’s not. Specifically, happy people on average have 31% higher productivity than their less happy peers, their sales are 37% higher, and their creativity is three times as high.

  • Shawn Achor, “Positive Intelligence,” Harvard Business Review, January–February 2012; https://hbr.org/2012/01/positive-intelligence. Sonja Lyubomirsky, Laura King, and Ed Diener, “The Benefits of Frequent Positive Affect: Does Happiness Lead to Success?,” Psychological Bulletin 131, no. 6 (November 2005): 803–55; https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/bul-1316803.pdf.

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