Shawn Achor Quotes

Our perspectives on situations act like a lens through which we view the world.

We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

How you imagine the world determines how you live in it.

You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.

Perception can be changed

There's nothing wrong with the world. What's wrong is our way of looking at it.

Our consciousness, our ideas, our frame of reference and our belief system determine whether we go to the river of life with a teaspoon, a cup, a bucket or a barrel.

Each time your mind changes your whole world is changed.

It is your understanding that is going to change your reality.

What you see determines how you interpret the world, which in turn influences what you expect of the world and how you expect the story of your life to unfold.

What you have carried in your mind about the world is what you will see around the world. What you carry in your mind about your life is what you will see in your life.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.

Paradigms are like glasses. When you have incomplete paradigms about yourself or life in general, it's like wearing glasses with the wrong prescription. That lens affects how you see everything else.

You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them.

We all have mental models: the lens through which we see the world that drive our responses to everything we experience. Being aware of your mental models is key to being objective.

Attitudes are more important than facts.

Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm.

People see things in the opposite way that I do. There are places that spirit, soul and emotion reach.

Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven

Wherever there is a conscious mind, there is a point of view.