{"id":12882,"date":"2015-04-30T14:26:05","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T18:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/blog\/?p=12882"},"modified":"2016-05-23T11:40:34","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T15:40:34","slug":"does-success-lead-to-happiness-or-does-happiness-lead-to-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/vlog\/does-success-lead-to-happiness-or-does-happiness-lead-to-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Success Lead To Happiness, Or Does Happiness Lead To Success?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The video:<\/strong> Filmed May 2011 at TEDxBloomington. Shawn Achor is the founder and CEO of <a href=\"http:\/\/goodthinkinc.com\" target=\"_blank\">Good Think Inc.<\/a>, where he researches and teaches about positive psychology. He is the winner of over a dozen distinguished teaching awards at Harvard University where he delivered lectures on positive psychology in the most popular class at Harvard. <\/p>\n<p><strong>The Transcendental Meditation technique:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/meditation-techniques\" target=\"_blank\">Transcendental Meditation<\/a> is a simple, natural, effortless technique practiced twenty minutes twice each day while sitting comfortably with the eyes closed. It is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/blog\/vlog\/meditation-myths-watch-this-and-think-again\/\" target=\"_blank\">easy to learn<\/a> and enjoyable to practice and is not a religion, philosophy, or lifestyle. Over six million people have learned it \u2014 people of all ages, cultures, and religions \u2014 and over 380 published, peer-reviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/research-on-meditation\" target=\"_blank\">research studies<\/a> have found that the TM technique significantly reduces stress, anxiety, and fatigue, and promotes balanced functioning of mind and body.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psychologist Shawn Achor, one of the world\u2019s leading experts on the connection between happiness and success, argues that most of us are seeking happiness in the wrong place! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/blog\/vlog\/does-success-lead-to-happiness-or-does-happiness-lead-to-success\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_excerpt -->","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[78,295,267,266,22],"class_list":["post-12882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vlog","tag-happiness","tag-meditation","tag-shawn-achor","tag-ted","tag-transcendental-meditation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12882"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12890,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12882\/revisions\/12890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}