Shawn Achor on seeking wonder

- So as you know, all the guest teachers we've had have been my friends; one of them, my daughter. But there was somebody I really wanted to meet and bring him as a guest teacher for the course, and that's Shawn Achor. He wrote a book called The Happiness Advantage, and now he has a new book, Before Happiness, The Five Hidden Keys To Achieving Success, Spreading Happiness And Sustaining Positive Change; and the message is so aligned to Thriving. So, Shawn, thank you so much for being here. I feel that all the research you've done on happiness is so aligned with the research I've done on thriving because the bottom line is that we don't have to wait to achieve something in order to be happy. So tell us about it; how can our sense of thriving be independent of our circumstances? - Sure, well, wonderful; thank you so much for inviting me into your apartment to even get to share this research. I started this research before getting into psychology at the Divinity School, so I was studying…