TED video titled "Shawn Achor: The Happy Secret to Better Work" talks about how the people around us have been telling us the not quite successful way to be successful - that is by telling us to work so hard until we reach success and be happy (this is mostly told by our parents and schools all over the world). Why this is not quite accurate is because apparently only 25% of job successes are predicted by intelligence and the rest 75% are because of optimism. The fact is once you've reach success and be happy, you will want more and more, so there will not be an end to it; seems like you won't reach the ultimate happiness and this is why Shawn Achor wants to reverse the formula for happiness and success. What we need to do is instead going crazy because of all the hard work and be successful and happy until there's no end, we should be happy now since it will make us more optimistic and drive us even much more to do a better work and be successful (so basically a never ending happiness). This happens because when we are happy, the dopamine (a compound that is released in our body when we are happy) turns on all of the learning systems in our brain making us much more aware of seeing the world in a more positive way.
