{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Chapter 162: Shawn Achor on becoming boundlessly buoyant by building better beliefs","description":" Happy Strawberry Moon, everyone! As we ease into summer and the hydrangeas and garden roses begin blooming here in Toronto, I find myself struck by the awe and beauty that quietly surrounds us each day. There\u2019s so much science behind how we experience the world. My guest on this moon\u2019s chapter of 3 Books has spent his career proving just that. Join me in welcoming one of the world\u2019s leading experts on happiness and human potential, a Harvard-trained positive psychologist and researcher whose \u200bTED Talk\u200b has been watched over 30 million (!) times, and a genuinely warm human I am proud to call a friend ... Mr. Shawn Achor! (pronounced like "acorn" without the n, btw!) I first met Shawn in Abu Dhabi, years ago, when we were both invited to speak to the Royal Family of the United Arab Emirates. I arrived a few days early, for dress rehearsals, long dinners, and meet-and-greets with various extended family members, and then Shawn showed up. He flew in, crushed it onstage, dropped research studies like he\u2019d memorized all of Google Scholar, and immediately flew out. I was left thinking: Who was that masked man? Well, over the years we became friends, and he was kind enough to blurb \u2018\u200bThe Happiness Equation\u200b\u2019 after selling a million copies of his own wonderful book, \u2018\u200bThe Happiness Advantage\u200b\u2019. And then ... where did he go? Shawn just sort of ... disappeared. I found out why in his new book, \u2018\u200bThe Power of Beliefs\u200b\u2019. After his daughter Zo\u00eb was born three months early, spending 50 days in the NICU, Shawn decided to take a break\u2014six years of no media, no international talks, no new books. Six years! But Shawn is still Shawn. An amiable son of an English teacher and a neuroscience professor, with multiple Harvard degrees, and a witty, research-centric writing style that is precise and uniquely compassionate. Tune in as we discuss Shawn\u2019s new book, his seven core beliefs (and their seven scars), the power of the placebo effect, what six years of "disappearing" taught him about parenting and living a more meaningful life, the psychology of awe, the cost of measuring your worth through comparison, and of course ... the brilliant Shawn Achor\u2019s 3 most formative books. Let\u2019s flip the page to Chapter 162 now... ","author_name":"3 Books With Neil Pasricha","author_url":"http:\/\/www.3books.co","html":"