On Jan. 19, 2015, Membership Committee Chair Rob Driscoll (left) introduced his membership talk and the inspirational video he recently watched and wanted to share with the club membership.
Robert introduced Shawn Achor’s as one of the world’s leading experts on the connection between happiness and success. His TED (Ted.com) talk is one of the most popular of all time, with over 9.4 million views. Intently watching are Rotarians Erik Homenik (center) and President Bob Tremblett.
Rob has worked through over a third of the Happiness Advantage training. It is the largest and most successful positive psychology corporate training program to date in the world. Shawn is the author of New York Times best-selling books The Happiness Advantage (2010) and Before Happiness (2013), as well as Ripple’s Effect and The Orange Frog. Shawn was published in the top psychology journal last year for the work he did at UBS in partnership with Yale University to create a more effective stress training. And he recently did a two-hour interview with Oprah at her house discussing happiness research and perception of success.
- Positive philosophy
- Escaping the cult of being average
- His studies on outliers
- Positive brain on success
- The happiness average
- Making small changes ripple outward