Chuck Salvo: Be Your Own Chief Happiness Architect: Applying Disney’s Magic to Your Own Life

Building a corporation of happiness is similar to building happiness in your own life. Know your why, what, and stay true to your values. “A culture needs to be created intentionally,” says Chuck Salvo, Chief Happiness Architect at SALVO Innovative Solutions. Baggett discussed how Chuck spent 15 years developing the blueprint for happiness among the employees at the Disney Institute. 

 

Nurturing happiness within a corporate culture is more than just providing unlimited snacks and sleeping pods, Chuck explains. Beginning at the macro level, a company must have a set of boundaries for employees to “know how to flow.” This starts with establishing the company’s purpose, or what Chuck calls, “the why.” From there, the company establishes the structures, or “the what,” and behaviors, “the how.” This way, workers remain “on purpose,” which is more important than simply hitting the right numbers and metrics. 

“Diversity is a good thing in theory.” Chuck explains that in practice a lot of diversity efforts result in herd mentality. Diversity for the sake of diversity is not always the best policy. 

 

Finding our what, why, and how is key to triggering happiness in our personal lives. People's individual happiness is suffering due to a lack of genuine human interaction. These days people are afraid to have real conversations with each other.  People have a fear of being canceled for saying the wrong thing. Chuck discusses the R.A.V.E. method he teaches in his workshops, which helps people (re)discover that we are much more like-minded than we have been led to believe. 

 

Chuck himself is a conversationalist and a teacher. Bart analyzes his handwriting which confirms his talkative and mental acuity.. He also has a rare characteristic that he shares with prolific science fiction writer and founder of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard. Listen now to find out whether Chuck has what it takes to make a great cult leader, or if he would be better suited to writing books. 

 

Quotes

• "You have to have a structure, a set of boundaries for people to know how to flow…everything is about metrics these days. And metrics aren't bad. However, they become the controlling force, as opposed to the measuring force." (5:36 | Chuck) 
• “Finding that structure is good. And knowing that structure is good. Individually, though, people need to realize what their purpose is… and then the behaviors that go along with that, build the structure." (7:20 | Chuck) 
• "And you're right: businesses, more often than not, I'd say the highest percentage of the upper 90%, they have mission statements, they have vision statements, but they don't have purpose statements, right? Same thing is true for individuals, they truly understand the why of what they're doing." (11:53 | Chuck)
• "You also have a very odd personality trait that I don't see very often…the only person I can tell you that I know for sure that has that that's not from the 18th century was L. Ron Hubbard… you can either be a prolific writer or cult leader. This is your destiny. (15:12 | Bart)

 

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Website: https://salvoinnovativesolutions.com/
Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuck-salvo-3383a212/

 

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