Solve for Happy, Mo Gawdat
Solve for Happy, Mo Gawdat
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Solve for Happy
Engineer Your Path to Joy

Author: Mo Gawdat

Narrator: Mo Gawdat

Unabridged: 11 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/21/2017

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

In this “powerful personal story woven with a rich analysis of what we all seek” (Sergey Brin, cofounder of Google), Mo Gawdat, Chief Business Officer at Google’s [X], applies his superior logic and problem solving skills to understand how the brain processes joy and sadness—and then he solves for happy.

In 2001 Mo Gawdat realized that despite his incredible success, he was desperately unhappy. A lifelong learner, he attacked the problem as an engineer would: examining all the provable facts and scrupulously applying logic. Eventually, his countless hours of research and science proved successful, and he discovered the equation for permanent happiness.

Thirteen years later, Mo’s algorithm would be put to the ultimate test. After the sudden death of his son, Ali, Mo and his family turned to his equation—and it saved them from despair. 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.

In Solve for Happy Mo questions some of the most fundamental aspects of our existence, shares the underlying reasons for suffering, and plots out a step-by-step process for achieving lifelong happiness and enduring contentment. He shows us how to view life through a clear lens, teaching us how to dispel the illusions that cloud our thinking; overcome the brain’s blind spots; and embrace five ultimate truths.

No matter what obstacles we face, what burdens we bear, what trials we’ve experienced, we can all be content with our present situation and optimistic about the future.

About Mo Gawdat

Mo Gawdat is the Chief Business Officer at Google’s [X]. In the last ten years he has made happiness his primary topic of research, diving deeply into literature and conversing on the topic with thousands of people in more than a hundred countries. He is also a serial entrepreneur who has cofounded more than twenty businesses. He speaks Arabic, English, and German. In 2014, motivated by the tragic loss of his son, Ali, Mo began pouring his findings into his first book, Solve for Happy.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Popup-ch on August 06, 2017

Pseudo-profound Panglossian platitudes, pitiable piety and piss-poor philosophy. Mo was a successful modern tech titan - working for Microsoft, and then Google, and currently heads Google-X. He was a self-made millionaire, and once bought two Rolls-Royces on a whim. But he wasn't happy. Then his belo......more

Goodreads review by Cindy on March 16, 2017

I'm fascinated by analytical thinking, problem solving and algorithms AND this book satisfied all of that and more. Mo Gawdat's book is part psychology, part science, part spiritual quest. Mo posits that happiness is a conceptual problem and that the default setting for the human brain is happiness.......more

Goodreads review by Eike on July 26, 2017

Solve for happiness is a great topic and the promise of hearing on becoming happier from an engineering perspective made me really excited. So excited that I summarized the whole book here: [URL not allowed] However, Mo Gawdat, does not deliver on his promise of a happiness equ......more

Goodreads review by Mirou ✿ on January 03, 2025

I can't recommend this book enough. May everyone find their way to happiness! 🙏🏻......more

Goodreads review by Mohamed on July 21, 2017

I sincerely feel sad for the grieving father who lost his son and I truly wish him the peace of mind. I liked the approach of trying to use logic in order to reach happiness, but there were three major problems for me reading this book: 1. The book didn't make me feel happy, in the matter of fact it......more