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614: Shawn Achor | Leveraging the Happiness Advantage

The Jordan Harbinger Show

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Stress Is the Number One Cause of Death and Disease

Only ten per cent of our long term happiness is about the external world. We found incredibly happy people and unhappy people living in, you know, the shanty towns in sueto of south africa that i was working with. And the same thing on wall street. I found some very negative people, but allsomevery positive one same conditions. The real question is, why? Right? Like everyone experiences stress to some extent. So what we looked at is we found that most people's view of stress caused them to feel sicker. In the middle of a crisis, we find that your immune system is aas high as possible level,. Your brain speeds up, your memory improves,

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