CAREER: Are You Making This Move?

Shawn Anchor’s work teaches us instead of working hard in order to be happy, we should cultivate happiness in our lives so that we can work more effectively. We already mentioned that happiness releases dopamine in the body, which increases happy feelings and increases the learning function of your brain. But what could this mean for your career? Well; have you stayed in the same job for years even though it makes you miserable? Do you stay because you believe that working hard and enduring everything that’s bad about it will, eventually, lead to success and happiness? If so, Anchor’s research could be the key to a new door that you’ve been waiting for. When you’re struggling through each day you are not experience those floods of dopamine which would allow you to come up with new ideas and think in innovative ways. Create success by experiencing happiness — even if that means making a bold move.