You won’t believe this BILLIONAIRE’S productivity hack.. — ZoomInfo founder and CEO #HenrySchuck on the #20VC podcast with #HarryStebbings — #grattitudejournal #grattitude #shawnachor #productivityhacks #billionairemindset

Gratitude journaling, Henry, give me a break. Give me two minutes and 30 seconds and I can get you on board. You ready? I hated this stuff. I thought, like, basically, if you tell me to gratitude journal, you might as well also tell me to drink kombucha every like a couple of hours and sing kumbaya melodies. It was just B.S. There's this book that was written by a guy named Sean Acker. He's a Harvard researcher around happiness. They have a happiness lab. And the book is called The Happiness Advantage. He spoke at a conference. I got the book. I read it. If you read it, I guarantee it'll change your life. Maybe I don't guarantee, but it changed mine and the way that I think about things. And here's the big premise. The big premise is teams that are happier, people who are happier, way outperform unhappy teams and unhappy people. That happiness is actually the biggest advantage for a productivity perspective in business. And think about all the stuff, Harry, that you do to get an advantage in business, all the little things, all the big things to get a little bit of an advantage. And it turns out happiness is the thing that drives the biggest advantage in business and an out product of it is that you're happy. It's like, what could be a better productivity advantage? So he went and did a bunch of studies. One of them, they took two control groups of people. And in one of them, they said, you gratitude journal every day, three minutes, write down three things from the day before that you were thankful for. Not like I'm thankful for my health. I'm thankful that I have food. But key moments in your day that you are thankful for looking back. And if you do that for 21 days, if you do that for 21 days, what happens during those 21 days is that your brain actually creates a background screening application. And so while you're doing it, your brain is learning how to recognize those moments in the moment. And so instead of having to look back after 21 days, your brain created an application that just notices it in real time. And all of a sudden, you're much happier because in the moment you're appreciating those moments of gratitude.