{"id":1775,"date":"2016-05-03T16:00:52","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T23:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/?p=1775"},"modified":"2016-05-02T16:32:02","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T23:32:02","slug":"causality-of-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/causality-of-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Causality of Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMost people\u00a0assume the following\u00a0formula:\u00a0If you work hard, you will become successful, and once you become successful, then you\u2019ll be happy. Success first, happiness second. The only problem is that this formula is broken. The formula is broken because it is backward. More than a decade of groundbreaking research in the fields of positive psychology and neuroscience has proven in no uncertain terms that the relationship between success and happiness works the other way around. Happiness and optimism actually fuel performance and achievement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">-Shawn Achor (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/shawn_achor_the_happy_secret_to_better_work?language=en#t-721701http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/shawn_achor_the_happy_secret_to_better_work?language=en#t-721701\">TED talk<\/a>, via <a href=\"http:\/\/corporate-rebels.com\/Blog\/employee-happiness-myths\/\">Corporate Rebels<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMost people\u00a0assume the following\u00a0formula:\u00a0If you work hard, you will become successful, and once you become successful, then you\u2019ll be happy. Success first, happiness second. The only problem is that this formula is broken. The formula is broken because it is backward. More than a decade of groundbreaking research in the fields of positive psychology and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/causality-of-success\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Causality of Success&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1775"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1779,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775\/revisions\/1779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}