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

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Solve For Happy

By: Mo Gawdat
Narrated 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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The answer is 42

The answers to Life, the Universe and Everything from an Engineers perspective. There is a god... and he's a physicist. If you have ever loved and lost. If you have ever sought order in your life. If you are lost and alone (as we all are). Read this. There is wisdom and stories and math herein.

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  • Sam
  • 20-06-2017

A must listen

Highly recommend this book. It is helping me to change my life for the better.

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Inspirational

Motivating, inspiring, emotional just what my heart needed. Put a smile back in my face & understood anger & happiness. Thank you.

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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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Highly Recommend...

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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  • Leo
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Life changing.

What an absolute inspiration you are Mo!
What an amazing book.
As an engineer and medical doctor, I found the sometimes mathematical and scientific explanations very well done and compelling.
For those listeners who aren’t particularly technical minded I encourage you to persist through those occasional bits as Mo always ends with a well reasoned take home message.
With love to you, your family and the universe.

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A triumph!

Mo Gawdat has produced a book full of emotion, intertwined with some beautiful concepts.

I have just finished my first read and about to start again. This time with a bigger notebook.

Thank you 🙏 Mo for sharing your sadness, wisdom and the greatest happiness as well.

My epiphany began in the later chapters, in particular the discussions surrounding death.

Whilst this sounds difficult to deal with, it was what I the student needed to read.

Bravo Mo. Take care of your family and thankyou for a timeless book that my children will read shortly.

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Wow, what a remarkable story and what a remarkable man. Thank-you for sharing such a personal, devastating experience in a way that can only make you feel love. It has changed the way I think, feel and will live my life... thank-you and please keep sharing your thoughts.
I will listen to this book again and again.

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Engaging and paradigm challenging

I particularly enjoyed Mos’ narration and his thoroughness on the journey to solve the happiness equation.

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Best Book I've Ever Read

This book really resonated with me and I think it can benefit everyone. Highly recommend.

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