Master the Science of Happiness & Success

Why You Must Know What Makes You Happy And How Science Can Help

In this section we delve into the mechanics of happiness and success so that you will be able to measure and track your happiness and success. When you understand how happiness & success work and how to measure them, they become achievable goals.

Learn What Actually Determines Happiness And Focus Your Efforts Effectively

We should put focus and efforts to improve only the area of life that actually depends on our choice.

How To Use Positive And Negative Emotions To Magnify Your Happiness & Success

We need a regular boost of positivity to unlock our full potential and utilize negative emotions. The Circles method is about how you can consciously build an environment around yourself that will constantly provide you with a boost of positivity that will bring the best out of yourself, as well as help you acknowledge your negative emotions in a useful way.

Tap Into A Never-ending Flow Of Desire And Fulfillment

To be continuously fulfilled you have to be in a state of personal or social flow. This lesson explores the concept of flow and how it contributes to happiness. Flow can occur through both personal engagement or social engagement, the creation of which is the focus of the Circles Method.

The Secret Forces Of Synchrony, Resonance, And Positivity Flow And Why You Need Them

The Circles Method delivers a new kind of flow, a flow driven by human connection. The Circles Method is packed with group exercises that create an environment where shared positivity flow can flourish. We will be discussing this more near the end of the course, and we will offer you an environment where you can experience and practice connectivity flow right through your computer screen.

The Magical Star Quality Of Social Intelligence That You Can Master

Being successful and reaching your goals requires more than just IQ or talent, it requires social intelligence.

• An exercise for insight: retrospective dissection of interpersonal disaster aka identifying the need for social intelligence in your real life experiences
• Social intelligence

Neuroscience Says You Can Rewire Your Brain For Social Intelligence (Star Quality)

By re-wiring our brain we can learn how to react optimally to any social situation or conflict. You will learn WHY we don’t always react as we would like and how we can change that. What do we WANT to wire our brains to become? Simple! One that is aimed at creating positive social interactions.

Good Things Grow For The Reaping Through Positive Connections With Others

In previous sections we have explored newly discovered determinant of happiness & success that help us take keener aim at our goal. Now we will uncover the amazing effects of Positive Social Relations (PSRs) in almost every area of life in addition to all the parameters of happiness and success covered in the previous section. Now it's time to dive into the world of positive human connection and the reveal the immense potential it offers in any field you could name.

Discover The True Relationship Between Wealth, Giving, And Happiness

Research reveals that positive social incentives provide a greater sense of fulfillment than monetary rewards and wealth accumulation. This is the kind of rewiring our brain needs in order to truly be fulfilled. It's crucial that you know this in order to become happy and successful.

How Connection Is A Matter Of Life And Death

We discover the critical tie between almost every area of our health and our Positive Social Relations in this lesson. Cultivating Positive Social Relations yeilds tremendous health benefits in terms of human mortality and survival rates, cognitive function, cancer, mental health, suicide, addiction, sleep, appetite, stress, energy, and even sex.

Scientific research demonstrates how you can come up with breakthrough creativity, and it has everything to do with Positive Social Relations. Our thought and behavioral patterns tend to be self-perpetuating. To break free of repetitive patterns and unlock your creative potential, connection with others is the crucial key. At the end of the course you can be part of an online environment that will make it very easy for you to turn an exercise in breakthrough creativity into a lifetime habit.

• Creative ideas actually come from pieces of a puzzle merging together to form something higher, something greater than the sum of it’s parts.
• How to respond to an unfamiliar opportunity as a creative breakthrough, instead of identifying it as a problem
• Why humans tend to search for that which confirms their current beliefs and thinking patterns and miss the brainstorm ideas.

Why Success Depends On Connecting The Dots Between Connection & Happiness & Productivity

In this session we will see how Positive Social Relations are crucial to reach personal success, motivation and engagement. A leading researcher from Harvard, a doctor, a psychiatrist, summarized his lifetime research of what makes humans flourish in one sentence.

Why Success Depends On Connecting The Dots Between Connection & Happiness & Productivity

In this session we will see how Positive Social Relations are crucial to reach personal success, motivation and engagement. A leading researcher from Harvard, a doctor, a psychiatrist, summarized his lifetime research of what makes humans flourish in one sentence.

Why Success Depends On Connecting The Dots Between Connection & Happiness & Productivity

In this session we will see how Positive Social Relations are crucial to reach personal success, motivation and engagement. A leading researcher from Harvard, a doctor, a psychiatrist, summarized his lifetime research of what makes humans flourish in one sentence.

A Must-Know Fact: Research Reveals Positive Social Relations Boost Business Outcomes 240%

In this session we look at what Positive Social Relations can do for your business, your team, or your employees. It will be apparent that simple improvements in human relations can make your team much more productive, drive sales and eventually produce greater profits. The Circles Agency (our consulting and team building firm) has found that a connected culture--meaning a warm atmosphere with positive social relations-- is the most valuable strategic asset any company can get.

• The good news: through a simple gesture of positive recognition, you can get your employee to be much more productive and willing to do more work for less money.
• The bad news: ignoring your employee is almost as damaging to productivity as shredding their work right in front of their eyes... So it’s easy to de-motivate people also.
• Additional benefits of Positive Social Relations in business include improved employee health, fewer sick days, a more congenial workplace, increased psychological resourcefulness, greater stamina.
• The greatest predictor of work team achievement is how the team members feel about one another, whether they felt valued and supported.
• Studies have found that the strength of the bond between manager and employee is the prime predictor of both daily productivity and the length of the time people stay at their jobs.
• In dollars and cents, one positive email between one worker and another was worth $948 in revenue.

How To Use Connection In The Classroom To Learn More, Better, Faster

Whether in formal settings or not, we are all lifelong learners, so it's important to appreciate the benefits of Positive Social Relations on how quickly we can absorb study materials, improve our motivation to study, and maximize cognitive abilities. Cooperative learning environments far exceed individualistic or competitive learning environments in boosting learning capacity and efficiency. At the end of this course, the Circles Agency will offer personal experience right through your computer with the optimal cooperative environment.

• Research-based Social Interdependence Theory unveils important insights about the relative merits of cooperative learning over competitive or individualistic efforts
• The cooperative learning increases willingness to take on difficult tasks and persist despite difficulties, improves reasoning, and magnifies critical thinking skills
• Cooperative learning results in lower absenteeism and fewer dropouts, higher morale and persistence for learning, and higher achievement and productivity
• Connection in the classroom creates a network of collaborators who care about each other's achievements and success

How To Use Connection In The Classroom To Learn More, Better, Faster

Whether in formal settings or not, we are all lifelong learners, so it's important to appreciate the benefits of Positive Social Relations on how quickly we can absorb study materials, improve our motivation to study, and maximize cognitive abilities. Cooperative learning environments far exceed individualistic or competitive learning environments in boosting learning capacity and efficiency. At the end of this course, the Circles Agency will offer personal experience right through your computer with the optimal cooperative environment.

• Research-based Social Interdependence Theory unveils important insights about the relative merits of cooperative learning over competitive or individualistic efforts
• The cooperative learning increases willingness to take on difficult tasks and persist despite difficulties, improves reasoning, and magnifies critical thinking skills
• Cooperative learning results in lower absenteeism and fewer dropouts, higher morale and persistence for learning, and higher achievement and productivity
• Connection in the classroom creates a network of collaborators who care about each other's achievements and success

Use The Miraculous Power Of Collective Intelligence To Excel At Almost Anything

Research on Positive Social Relations reveals a single element, miraculous seeming in its impact, that will make any team successful. Cognitive problem solving tasks, negotiation, execution, moral reasoning and numerous other tasks are usually performed most successfully by individuals with greater intelligence. However, levels of achievement at such tasks are consistently out-stripped by a group with unremarkable intelligence, without group cohesion, special satisfaction, or even motivation. The startling results come from a factor called Collective Intelligence.

Partner With Nature: Positive Social Relations Produce Results Because We Are Hard-Wired For Connection

Throughout the lessons in this section, you have learned how Positive Social Relations affect virtually every level and area of human experience in remarkably beneficial ways. Let's find out why is it that interactions with others can supercharge our abilities, optimize our performance, and better our well-being. Different fields of research today are weaving a comprehensive answer: we are connected by nature.

Make Your Choice Conscious—Reasoning With The Flight Or Fight Mechanism

Over the course of our evolutionary history, we developed a fundamental survival instinct, a fight or flight mechanism, to protect us from danger.We always act out of our own self-concern.While our survival instinct may have protected us from saber-toothed tigers, in today's world it plays a major role in preventing us from scouting for Positive Social Relations because often we are scouting for possible danger instead.We can’t change this survival mechanism, but we can change the way we use it.

It's Time To Arm Yourself For The War Going On For Your Happiness And Success

Today people aren’t happy and society is in a multifaceted crisis. The entire world suffers from distorted definitions of happiness and success, runs an exhausting treadmill of consumerism and materialism leading to nothing but depression and despair. The current cultural mindset is fighting against our drive to engage in Positive Social Relations. While human connection is actually natural and intuitive for us—scientifically proven to boost well-being, health, happiness, and success in life—Positive Social Relations are left on the sidelines in the cultural environment of today.

Introduction – Warrior Training In Tactics For Mass Happiness: Acknowledge, Characterize, Shift

Knowledge is power; by understanding where the world is headed you can position yourself for happiness and success. By understanding current trends, you can adjust to change and sail unscathed toward happiness and success. The key to success lies in three words: acknowledge, characterize, shift. In this section, you will learn how to understand where the world is headed so you can adapt yourself accordingly. Then it won’t matter what field you are in, or what kind of decisions you have to make, you are sure to make smarter and better choices.

Take Command Of Your Hyper Connected & Interdependent World

The world is inevitably becoming interconnected and interdependent, with repercussions in every aspect of society. We can see this in all fields--economy, politics, society, and ecology. You need to know about “the five degrees of separation” and what it means to your life. Consider well the question: Is the reality of our interconnection and interdependence a quantitative change from the past, or is the change more fundamental?

• In the world today, we are hyper connected.
• The stats on actual interconnection via the social media--the Facebook community is the most populous “country” in the world!
• Global interconnection poses threatening global risks due to the processes of network dynamics.
• Solutions to global interdependency threats lie in understanding how networks operate.

Turning The Corner To Happiness & Success: Your World Around The Bend

The interconnected and interdependent reality we live in requires a new way of thinking--a connected mindset. All the personal crisis you feel are the result of living by outdated paradigms. Miracles happen when we transform from a mindset of self-interest to a mindset of altruism. A connected mindset will make diamonds from graphite. When you surround yourself in an environment of Positive Social Relations you will harvest well-being, health, higher productivity, engagement at home and work doing the things you love, improved learning, higher social and collective intelligence—all the components of a happy and successful life. As the old adage says, “The proof is in the pudding!” Snatch your upcoming opportunity to join the Circles community and see for yourself.

• The change taking place in the world today is unlike any previous change--the entire rules of the game have changed and you must know HOW in order to thrive.
• The old paradigm was based on the premise of human competition and exploitation for personal gain and success.
• The paradigm of self-focus, combined with our survival instinct, has brought us to crisis on every level of life.
• You work is to recognize the mindset that has led to crisis and slip into a new and improved mindset that is suited to where the world is headed today.
• A connected mindset is perfectly fitted to new world trends.
• Science has revealed all the pieces of life's puzzle. What remains is to learn how to connect them correctly.
• The Circles Method is all about HOW to make the puzzle pieces fit! Get ready, play!

Turning The Corner To Happiness & Success: Your World Around The Bend

The interconnected and interdependent reality we live in requires a new way of thinking--a connected mindset. All the personal crisis you feel are the result of living by outdated paradigms. Miracles happen when we transform from a mindset of self-interest to a mindset of altruism. A connected mindset will make diamonds from graphite. When you surround yourself in an environment of Positive Social Relations you will harvest well-being, health, higher productivity, engagement at home and work doing the things you love, improved learning, higher social and collective intelligence—all the components of a happy and successful life. As the old adage says, “The proof is in the pudding!” Snatch your upcoming opportunity to join the Circles community and see for yourself.

• The change taking place in the world today is unlike any previous change--the entire rules of the game have changed and you must know HOW in order to thrive.
• The old paradigm was based on the premise of human competition and exploitation for personal gain and success.
• The paradigm of self-focus, combined with our survival instinct, has brought us to crisis on every level of life.
• You work is to recognize the mindset that has led to crisis and slip into a new and improved mindset that is suited to where the world is headed today.
• A connected mindset is perfectly fitted to new world trends.
• Science has revealed all the pieces of life's puzzle. What remains is to learn how to connect them correctly.
• The Circles Method is all about HOW to make the puzzle pieces fit! Get ready, play!

Turning The Corner To Happiness & Success: Your World Around The Bend

The interconnected and interdependent reality we live in requires a new way of thinking--a connected mindset. All the personal crisis you feel are the result of living by outdated paradigms. Miracles happen when we transform from a mindset of self-interest to a mindset of altruism. A connected mindset will make diamonds from graphite. When you surround yourself in an environment of Positive Social Relations you will harvest well-being, health, higher productivity, engagement at home and work doing the things you love, improved learning, higher social and collective intelligence—all the components of a happy and successful life. As the old adage says, “The proof is in the pudding!” Snatch your upcoming opportunity to join the Circles community and see for yourself.

• The change taking place in the world today is unlike any previous change--the entire rules of the game have changed and you must know HOW in order to thrive.
• The old paradigm was based on the premise of human competition and exploitation for personal gain and success.
• The paradigm of self-focus, combined with our survival instinct, has brought us to crisis on every level of life.
• You work is to recognize the mindset that has led to crisis and slip into a new and improved mindset that is suited to where the world is headed today.
• A connected mindset is perfectly fitted to new world trends.
• Science has revealed all the pieces of life's puzzle. What remains is to learn how to connect them correctly.
• The Circles Method is all about HOW to make the puzzle pieces fit! Get ready, play!

How To Become An “Imaginal Cell” And Change Your World

Those who have understood the shift, and adapted to it will greatly increase their chances to succeed in anything they do. In spite of piles of evidence highlighting the association between Positive Social Relations and happiness & success, you may be wondering why people are not putting this knowledge into practice. Actually, that is what we are doing together in the Circles Community! The key to success is found in creating the right environment. Get that right, and everything else falls into place effortlessly. We each have the potential to act as an imaginal cell--to create greatness in life. Surround yourself with the right environment, one that keeps reminding you why you're here and what huge potential you have and happiness and success are guaranteed to be yours.

• The new paradigm can be applied as successfully on the individual level as on the corporate level.
• Once the key component is present, the method can be used uniquely and suit it any personal goals.
• You have the opportunity to fill your life and the lives of others happiness and success
• Each and every one of you is or has the potential to be an imaginal cell, a creater of change
• With the right environment you can transform reality; with the wrong environment even an imaginal cell can switch off.
• Environment is KEY

How To Become An “Imaginal Cell” And Change Your World

Those who have understood the shift, and adapted to it will greatly increase their chances to succeed in anything they do. In spite of piles of evidence highlighting the association between Positive Social Relations and happiness & success, you may be wondering why people are not putting this knowledge into practice. Actually, that is what we are doing together in the Circles Community! The key to success is found in creating the right environment. Get that right, and everything else falls into place effortlessly. We each have the potential to act as an imaginal cell--to create greatness in life. Surround yourself with the right environment, one that keeps reminding you why you're here and what huge potential you have and happiness and success are guaranteed to be yours.

• The new paradigm can be applied as successfully on the individual level as on the corporate level.
• Once the key component is present, the method can be used uniquely and suit it any personal goals.
• You have the opportunity to fill your life and the lives of others happiness and success
• Each and every one of you is or has the potential to be an imaginal cell, a creater of change
• With the right environment you can transform reality; with the wrong environment even an imaginal cell can switch off.
• Environment is KEY

How To Become An “Imaginal Cell” And Change Your World

Those who have understood the shift, and adapted to it will greatly increase their chances to succeed in anything they do. In spite of piles of evidence highlighting the association between Positive Social Relations and happiness & success, you may be wondering why people are not putting this knowledge into practice. Actually, that is what we are doing together in the Circles Community! The key to success is found in creating the right environment. Get that right, and everything else falls into place effortlessly. We each have the potential to act as an imaginal cell--to create greatness in life. Surround yourself with the right environment, one that keeps reminding you why you're here and what huge potential you have and happiness and success are guaranteed to be yours.

• The new paradigm can be applied as successfully on the individual level as on the corporate level.
• Once the key component is present, the method can be used uniquely and suit it any personal goals.
• You have the opportunity to fill your life and the lives of others happiness and success
• Each and every one of you is or has the potential to be an imaginal cell, a creater of change
• With the right environment you can transform reality; with the wrong environment even an imaginal cell can switch off.
• Environment is KEY

Introduction: The Final Step To Ensure Your Happiness And Success

It's time to review our amazing journey and ask where we go from here. We have looked at the science, theory and supporting research behind happiness and success. Now it's time to focus on how to apply this in our lives. You have learned about the power of the connected mindset. In this crucial last section you will learn how to maintain a connected mindset and unleash your full potential without reverting back to old habits. You will learn the crux of the Circles Method.

How To Circle-Up For Sustainable Success

Social influence is all pervasive. Your perception, cognition, sense of judgment, preferences, opinions, values, definitions of good and bad, right or wrong, what you despise and what you love – are all continuously shaped by your social environment. Social contagion happens without your awareness--ideas, norms and moods are always infecting you and others around you. Any change we wish to make must be supported by your environment. Without the right environment, you have little chance of sustained success. The Circles University is dedicated to creating circles to sustain your happiness & success. That's what the Circles Method is all about!

• How environment changes both judgement and perception
• Anything we do without taking the environment into account, will give us very little chance of sustained success
• In the context of your quest for happiness & success, environment becomes the most influential choice you will make.
• Your environment today is the you of tomorrow!

How To Circle-Up For Sustainable Success

Social influence is all pervasive. Your perception, cognition, sense of judgment, preferences, opinions, values, definitions of good and bad, right or wrong, what you despise and what you love – are all continuously shaped by your social environment. Social contagion happens without your awareness--ideas, norms and moods are always infecting you and others around you. Any change we wish to make must be supported by your environment. Without the right environment, you have little chance of sustained success. The Circles University is dedicated to creating circles to sustain your happiness & success. That's what the Circles Method is all about!

• How environment changes both judgement and perception
• Anything we do without taking the environment into account, will give us very little chance of sustained success
• In the context of your quest for happiness & success, environment becomes the most influential choice you will make.
• Your environment today is the you of tomorrow!

How To Circle-Up For Sustainable Success

Social influence is all pervasive. Your perception, cognition, sense of judgment, preferences, opinions, values, definitions of good and bad, right or wrong, what you despise and what you love – are all continuously shaped by your social environment. Social contagion happens without your awareness--ideas, norms and moods are always infecting you and others around you. Any change we wish to make must be supported by your environment. Without the right environment, you have little chance of sustained success. The Circles University is dedicated to creating circles to sustain your happiness & success. That's what the Circles Method is all about!

• How environment changes both judgement and perception
• Anything we do without taking the environment into account, will give us very little chance of sustained success
• In the context of your quest for happiness & success, environment becomes the most influential choice you will make.
• Your environment today is the you of tomorrow!

How To Circle-Up For Sustainable Success

Social influence is all pervasive. Your perception, cognition, sense of judgment, preferences, opinions, values, definitions of good and bad, right or wrong, what you despise and what you love – are all continuously shaped by your social environment. Social contagion happens without your awareness--ideas, norms and moods are always infecting you and others around you. Any change we wish to make must be supported by your environment. Without the right environment, you have little chance of sustained success. The Circles University is dedicated to creating circles to sustain your happiness & success. That's what the Circles Method is all about!

• How environment changes both judgement and perception
• Anything we do without taking the environment into account, will give us very little chance of sustained success
• In the context of your quest for happiness & success, environment becomes the most influential choice you will make.
• Your environment today is the you of tomorrow!

How To Circle-Up For Sustainable Success

Social influence is all pervasive. Your perception, cognition, sense of judgment, preferences, opinions, values, definitions of good and bad, right or wrong, what you despise and what you love – are all continuously shaped by your social environment. Social contagion happens without your awareness--ideas, norms and moods are always infecting you and others around you. Any change we wish to make must be supported by your environment. Without the right environment, you have little chance of sustained success. The Circles University is dedicated to creating circles to sustain your happiness & success. That's what the Circles Method is all about!

• How environment changes both judgement and perception
• Anything we do without taking the environment into account, will give us very little chance of sustained success
• In the context of your quest for happiness & success, environment becomes the most influential choice you will make.
• Your environment today is the you of tomorrow!

How To Circle-Up For Sustainable Success

Social influence is all pervasive. Your perception, cognition, sense of judgment, preferences, opinions, values, definitions of good and bad, right or wrong, what you despise and what you love – are all continuously shaped by your social environment. Social contagion happens without your awareness--ideas, norms and moods are always infecting you and others around you. Any change we wish to make must be supported by your environment. Without the right environment, you have little chance of sustained success. The Circles University is dedicated to creating circles to sustain your happiness & success. That's what the Circles Method is all about!

• How environment changes both judgement and perception
• Anything we do without taking the environment into account, will give us very little chance of sustained success
• In the context of your quest for happiness & success, environment becomes the most influential choice you will make.
• Your environment today is the you of tomorrow!

How To Circle-Up For Sustainable Success

Social influence is all pervasive. Your perception, cognition, sense of judgment, preferences, opinions, values, definitions of good and bad, right or wrong, what you despise and what you love – are all continuously shaped by your social environment. Social contagion happens without your awareness--ideas, norms and moods are always infecting you and others around you. Any change we wish to make must be supported by your environment. Without the right environment, you have little chance of sustained success. The Circles University is dedicated to creating circles to sustain your happiness & success. That's what the Circles Method is all about!

• How environment changes both judgement and perception
• Anything we do without taking the environment into account, will give us very little chance of sustained success
• In the context of your quest for happiness & success, environment becomes the most influential choice you will make.
• Your environment today is the you of tomorrow!

How To Circle-Up For Sustainable Success

Social influence is all pervasive. Your perception, cognition, sense of judgment, preferences, opinions, values, definitions of good and bad, right or wrong, what you despise and what you love – are all continuously shaped by your social environment. Social contagion happens without your awareness--ideas, norms and moods are always infecting you and others around you. Any change we wish to make must be supported by your environment. Without the right environment, you have little chance of sustained success. The Circles University is dedicated to creating circles to sustain your happiness & success. That's what the Circles Method is all about!

• How environment changes both judgement and perception
• Anything we do without taking the environment into account, will give us very little chance of sustained success
• In the context of your quest for happiness & success, environment becomes the most influential choice you will make.
• Your environment today is the you of tomorrow!

The Circles Method: Jump Into The Circle For A Happy And Successful Life

In this lesson you learn about the Circles Method and the Positive Social Environment (PSE). A Positive Social Environment is exactly what you need to practice the Positive Social Relations that are the gateway to your sustained happiness & success. The Circles Method ties together everything you have learned throughout the course. This is not the end of the journey, but the entrance to your future of happiness & success. Armed with knowledge, you stand on a plateau with a crystal clear view. Instead of saying goodbye, we invite you to experience our Circles Community. You have just earned your ticket for a one-month free trial. Remember--the Circles Academy is always dedicated to your happiness and success!