Here at One Daily Nugget, we are trying to help you be both happier and more successful. Some people believe that these two goals are conflicting: You can work hard and be successful, or chillax and be happy. Others believe that happiness is conditioned upon success: Chilling and relaxing won’t be fulfilling in the long term, so work hard and succeed, then you will be happy.

In today’s nugget, Shawn Achor, best-selling author of The Happiness Advantage, argues the reverse: It’s not that success will bring happiness, but that happiness will bring success.

Read today’s nugget, by Eric Barker on his Barking Up The Wrong Tree blog, to learn why you should care about your level of optimism more than about your GPA, how to see problems as challenges rather than threats, why you should invest in social connections, and how to use the “20-second rule” to form new habits!