Correlating Social Connections With Success

LOA Today - Your Daily Dose Of Happy · Nov 17, 2021 · 59m

Jacqui, Cindie, and Walt discuss a fascinating statistic from positive psychologist Shawn Achor. Shawn conducted a study while at Harvard University attempting to discover what the secret to success is. He took surveys from 1,000 students, approximately 1/6 of the entire student body at the time. To his shock and dismay, his study couldn't find hardly any correlations at all. Study habits, parents, subject matter, hours of study, etc. proved to not be predictive at all of success, both while they were at school and after they left school. However, he did find one correlation, and it blew his…