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  • Engineer Your Path to Joy
  • By: Mo Gawdat
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  • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (207 ratings)

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Solve For Happy

By: Mo Gawdat
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Solve for Happy is a startlingly original book about creating and maintaining happiness, written by a top Google executive with an engineer's training and fondness for thoroughly analyzing a problem.

In 2004 Mo Gawdat, a remarkable thinker whose gifts had landed him top positions in half a dozen companies and who - in his spare time - had created significant wealth, realized that he was desperately unhappy. A lifelong learner, he attacked the problem as an engineer would, examining all the provable facts and scrupulously following logic. When he was finished, he had discovered the equation for enduring happiness.

Ten years later that research saved him from despair when his college-age son, Ali - also intellectually gifted - died during routine surgery. In dealing with the loss, Mo found his mission: he would pull off the type of moonshot that he and his Google [X] colleagues were always aiming for - he would help 10 million people become happier by pouring his happiness principles into a book and spreading its message around the world.

One of Solve for Happy's key premises is that happiness is a default state. If we shape expectations to acknowledge the full range of possible events, unhappiness is on its way to being defeated. To steer clear of unhappiness traps, we must dispel the six illusions that cloud our thinking (e.g., the illusion of time, of control, and of fear); overcome the brain's seven deadly defects (e.g., the tendency to exaggerate, label, and filter); and embrace five ultimate truths (e.g., change is real, now is real, unconditional love is real).

By means of several highly original thought experiments, Mo helps listeners find enduring contentment by questioning some of the most fundamental aspects of their existence.

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©2016 Mo Gawdat (P)2016 Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd.

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A wonderful perspective on happiness & how to achieve it. Especially good for those living in their logic or masculine mind. Will bring you to tears & offer new philosophy you may not have considered.

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Breaks down concepts very well using logic

As an engineer, I loved the way Mo broke down common happiness concepts using logic.

I found this approach very easy to understand, and consequently therefore very easy to apply to my own life.

I didnt always agree with the conclusions reached, however because he explained his logic I was able to use it as a model to form my own understanding.

I highly recommend this book as im sure it will cause a major positive paradigm shift for you; just as it has for me.

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Helped me so much

I went through my own family tragedy this year that left me struggling to see living in positive lenses and lead me to one of the deepest depressions I’ve been in. It’s been a process of lots of things but this book helped a lot, there is such a humility from mo that helped me stay receptive for what he was saying and it helped me look forward and become once again the positive person I like to be.

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A wonderful book…

Such a good book and most of it means something to me even though I am atheist. Profound teachings Mo. Thank you. I wish you had written it back when my son died. Maybe my journey would have been easier. At least I found it now.

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The honesty

it's an honest account of love and perspective on what life is and should be

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Neuroscience of happiness explained so simply

I loved this book because Mo brings his mathematical, logical way of thinking to simply explain how simple it is for us to feel happy.
Easy to listen to, easy to implement- very insightful book!

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Very Happy!

Thank you Mo. Thank you Ali. A book worth listening to and learning from again and again.

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Thank you, Mo

So much good advice and many tools to help achieve happiness. It will be read many more times.
Thank you, Mo.

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Inspiring

Loved the book and the way it's written. Very easy to listen to. Thank you so much!

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Illuminating and full of wisdom

Thank you for writing this book, I’ve really enjoyed listening and ever inspired by the love and grace within the pages of this book and your life. A wonderful example to us all , so much to ponder ;)

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