Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

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An extrapolation of this may be hedonism — optimizing for pleasure and minimizing suffering in your life. Notice the thoughts in your heat, your breath, the blood pumping through your body, your fingers holding whatever device you’re reading this on. In Solve For Happy Mo Gawdat explains how to change your thinking and adapt your expectations to achieve enduring happiness.

By seeing beyond these illusions, we see the world as it really is and happiness becomes more frequent. Mo Gawdat is the former Chief Business Officer of Google X, internationally acclaimed host of the popular mental health podcast, Slo Mo: A Podcast with Mo Gawdat, a three-time bestselling author of books Solve for Happy; Scary Smart; and That Little Voice in Your Head, founder of One Billion Happy, and Chief AI Officer of Flight Story. Happiness is this peaceful feeling,” says Mo, “And yet we confuse it with going to the pub, dancing at a party or jumping out of a plane.An A+ student who gets an 80 on a test might be severely disappointed, meanwhile a student with an average of 70 might be absolutely ecstatic with the same result. Or as Gawdat, formerly head of Google X, now the author of the book Solve for Happy, puts it, you need to “Bust the 6 Grand Illusions, Fix the 7 Blind Spots, and Hang on to the 5 Ultimate Truths” (page 45, paperback edition) to achieve happiness.

After one year you’ll have the option to renew your subscription, or you can choose not to renew once your subscription year is over. In the Middle East and Latin America, events generally have a rough start time and continue for as long as it seems necessary/worthwhile. Closely related to the impermanence of death is Gawdat’s final pillar: There is an intelligent designer who created the universe, and there’s abundant mathematical evidence for his existence. In dealing with the horrible loss, Mo found his mission: he would pull off the type of “moonshot” goal that he and his colleagues were always aiming for—he would share his equation with the world and help as many people as possible become happier. You’re a supporting actor in thousands of people’s movies: the barista, the grocer, a random person on the street, the list goes on and on.And in the process - because you're engaged in action, and in thinking, and in analysis, and in problem-solving, you will not feel the unhappiness as a result. His writing, his ideas and his generosity in sharing them has changed my life for the better in so many ways. If the gift is for an All Courses Pass, the giftee will have one year’s access to all BBC Maestro courses, and immediate access to any new courses that are released within their yearly access period – from the date that they redeem their gift code. Mo also has a few notes he shares on the following chapters — I think it’s relevant to mention them here. I’m not saying we shouldn’t feel the pain as life can be difficult, but when we play it over and over like the ‘Netflix of Unhappiness’ then that’s when it’s really damaging,” he says.

The modern world has convinced us that happiness is not the target; the target is success or wealth or one’s position within society or whatever. Seeking pleasure it not necessarily bad — it’s when we do considering only the short term effects, forgoing the long term effects, that it becomes a problem. By choosing to Join, you trust Action for Happiness to take care of your personal information and agree to our Privacy Policy. This is one of the most fascinating things to me: everything that we now perceive as bad was once the thing keeping us alive. Mo realised that if he could find the reasons behind unhappiness he could list them down, or even better, as an engineer he could find an equation to solve it.The only thing you can accurately predict is that the world tomorrow will be different than the world today. Read the rest of the world's best book summary and analysis of Mo Gawdat's "Solve for Happy" at Shortform. He argues that, because unconditional love occurs inexplicably, we don’t expect anything of our beloved—rather, we’re simply happy to be in their presence.