Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy | Mo Gawdat | Talks at Google
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- Mo Gawdat is a remarkable thinker and the Chief Business Officer at Google’s [X], an elite team of engineers that comprise Google’s futuristic “dream factory.” Applying his superior skills of logic and problem solving to the issue of happiness, he proposes an algorithm based on an understanding of how the brain takes in and processes joy and sadness. Then he solves for happy.
You can find out more about the book and Mo's work at www.solveforhap... .
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.
I have lost my son 13 months ago. As a mother i am trying to find the way how ti live without him but with him. As you mentioned, half of me has gone with my beautiful loving son. My heart is broken. While watching your video i have found a piece for a moment. Thank you very much
I am very sorry for your loss and wish you strength and wisdom.
Sorry for your loss
So sorry for your loss. In a strange, but nice way, the relationship never ends with our loved ones who pass. It just changes form. I discovered this after the passing of my dad a year ago. I would not be exaggerating if I say, he is more present now in my life than when he was with us, and we were very close then.
This guy is a genius. This thinking should be made core to any high school education. God bless him.
This gentleman is remarkable. I finally have his book in my hands as of today. Cannot wait to begin reading the book. Thank you Mo for taking something that was very challenging and difficult in your life and transforming it into a positive message to be shared with others. I hope you hit your personal goal of ten million shares of your book.
Our true potentials are hidden deep in our most pain so when we embrace it and understand it like our baby it will turn our most treasure .
Just saw Mo's interview on "Diary of a Ceo" and I'm now hooked on listening to him.
please for everyone who start watching this video watch it till the end
then start judging the content
it sounds good to me and i really get some points which will make me better " if we cant say happier "
I have been following you for a while, dear Mo. So great what you are doing. I have shared this one and other more recent presentations and interviews with my children (22 and 24) and with numerous friends and my students. You have helped me tremendously during a hard time. And I will continue to spread the message. Ali is certainly proud of you.
Knowledge that should be taught in school. How educated would our society be with this inside the class system
This book is amazing makes you see life on a whole other level. Got me through some bad times and to look at myself who I am why I am and what makes me me.. highly recommended
VICXX do you have the book ?
Thank you so very much. I don't see how you can shorten this message. I have your Ebook that I used that while I listened to your audiobook. I have watched your Stanford University Pop Up Class. There is so much material here. I feel that this can/will/has begun to change my life, but It is hard to change after 55 years. I work as a scientist so your message is perfect for me and will remain with me for the rest of my life on earth. I look forward to meeting Aii when the time comes... I know that I will just know him when we meet. Thank you for sharing your pain and love with me.
Thank you beautiful soul 💚
Our True Self Is Timeless , Formless and Infinite Pure Love .
Going through a tough time right now where I am filled with regrets from the past and am fearful of the future. But this interview has helped me. I am already feeling a little better. Can't wait to read the book.
Happy reading :) I wish you strength
Three years on, how are you?
Feeling exactly the same
My brother Mo Gawdat, Kyf hhlk? I'm Maryam Filipina caregiver, I'm a revert to Islam Alhamdullilah. I have seen, read your theory but now a living proof through logical explanation, through true to life experience! I never lost a son Alhamdullilah! I lost a brother, followed by my sister! My family were devastated about the death of our beloved. The worst case scenario is that I have felt the sorrow of my mom, she grieved soooooo much was badly hurt the most! She can't move on entirely up to now! 1st we lost our brother last 1997, and followed by my sister last 2003. We never expected this will happen again in our family. Nobody does. But this is our Dunya. Only Allah knows when we are going to die or change our fate in a snap! I'm happier now because I have seen n read your craft! I live here in Abu Dhabi UAE, And I am married with an Egyptian too. That's why when I heard your accent I was eager to Google where you are from a d was surprised that you were a masri Ma sha Allah. I may not know about your precious son Ali, but I can feel that he was a very good, smart son every single mom, dad, brother and sister could ever wish to have! RIP Ali. Your father loves, adore you sooooo very much! More power to you Mo, and I will read,watch, listen to all your videos and craft. Allah Kareem
Really great talk by Mo Gawdat. Thanks a lot Sir, I am from India, gone through so many Spiritual practises. Your talks touches are similar to Hinduism concepts mostly on Time and consciousness. I am also follower of Eckchart Tolle who talks about living in the present moment. You are well explained in simple words about present moment. You are great.
💚 From Syria
We are all One pure Love , Infinite Consciousness and Awareness . God's Self Is our True Self .
I don't know if this alone would qualify as making me "happier", butI like the guy and his talk and clicking on that little counter will make *him* slightly happier, at which point he really did make someone happier, right?
Thoughts; Conscience, Awareness. How we react or respond can trigger anxiety or calm. Prioritizing time with othera brings us happiness, your story is very helpful Mohammed Gawdat, wishing you all the best with your book. Thank you very much.
He is just amazing and I could listen to him all day
reminds me of eckhart tolle, it really works BTW, I can finally break free from depression for the first time.
Yes same timeless message. It takes different people from all walks of life to prove it works. Some wouldn't listen to Eckhart but would him ;-)
it was a really good talk! I really enjoy people like naval ravikant or michael singer and now mo gawdat speak about happiness because they are rational, well versed in science and their primary source of wealth was not from selling programs about happiness
I totally understand him, maybe it's because of that I'm an engineer. I'm reading the book and it's amazing
Only the grateful can be truly happy. There's no true happiness without gratefulness, that's when we know we have arrived to a place (figuratively &/or literally) where we no longer constantly striving to possess something other than what we already have.
One of the most marvelous realities I've experienced. It's an inside job. Not since Matthew Fox have I experienced such a deep comprehension of what works, what's real, what is important - to me.
this helped me a lot! For the first time I could grasp the idea of living in the present. Thank you very much @solve for happy
its great he Mo Gawdat redefine the ways to be happy. It's great to he. ar different ideas on the same topics. Some are very interesting. Like black swam and butterflies..... Some is heard before but when Mo says it it imprints better ....for some reason.
Blessed. No words for google, to make us moving positively.
Immense gratitude thanks to y'all so much dearest all 🌹
Y'all such an inspiration 🥰
Appreciate y'all from the bottom of my heart 💖
Stay Blissful Eternally 🙏👼🌈
I think this guy is awesome and I loved listening to him BUT there's only one problem for me.
This guy has millions of dollars. The reality is 99.9% of people's lives aren't like his. A lot of depressed people cannot find happiness because of the quality of their lives unfortunately.
All this guy needed during his depression (his depression was before his child's death he said) was to be reminded he's a multi-millionaire and his life is great.
I understand even millionaires can have struggles like anyone else but if I had millions I'm sure I would be fine and life would be a lot easier to find happiness.
I'm also sorry for his loss. No one should ever have to go through certain things in life, and losing your child is one of them.
Great man and a great video.
Having millions $ won't make you happy. He states this in several occasions, money can't buy you happiness. Happiness is something that comes from within yourself. Out from own experience i have to say that the moments I have been the happiest where also those moments where i had the less (less physical stuff). In fact, many of those people I know that have loads of money are the least happy. I don't want to say that you cant be happy if you have money.
You say, "A lot of depressed people cannot find happiness because of the quality of their lives unfortunately". Here I would emphasis that although they might not be happy at the moment, they CAN find happiness. Following the formula about expectations mentioned in the video, those people probably expect to have a greater life style than the one they are experiencing, which triggers a state of unhappiness. I don't think a certain life style makes you happy, but that being happy improves your life style no matter what. There is a quote: "It's not about what you have, It's about what you do with what you have". We should do the best out of what we have. This is how i see it, just one more opinion.
This. A key barrier to happiness is conditional thinking. "I'll be happy when X happens". And you strive and strive and achieve X (whatever that is - for many people it's wealth). An d you realise nothing has changed. You're the same person, and that goal has been accomplished. For a fleeting moment you're satisfied. Then it's over. Happiness to me is appreciating what I already have, the people I love and the moment I'm in.
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No he's right. Has nothing to do with money whether you have it or not. After my fiance died four years ago I was about as depressed as a person can be and I didn't want to live anymore. You don't even want to know what wasn't in my bank account. And 2 years later, I was broke as shit too, and somehow even more depressed than ever. But I had to make a decision cuz I couldn't live like that anymore. In order for me to keep existing I had to do something drastically different I had to be something different. On May 15th 2020 I made a choice to stop being a fucking victim and decided to be happy no matter what regardless of what went on around me. It's one that I continue to make everyday since then. And I am. I am happy and I know that I have the power to be always if that is what I choose.. I don't have a reason to be from anyone else's perspective. Doesn't matter because it has nothing to do with your outside circumstances. Literally everything this man says is absolutely true.
Wow! I can listen to Mo over and over and over again. Beautiful person!
13:23 quantification (~) of happiness:
"Happiness is >= Perception (of life's events ) - Expectation (of what life should behave)."
I noticed long time ago, for me, it is only the > 😌
A wonderful film. Thanks Mo Gawdat #SolveHappy
I clicked cuz I saw him wearing the Pink Floyd t shirt. Talk wasn't too bad either
"Wish you were here". That might be a subtle hint about his son.
Nice talking. sounds like therapy to me
HyperColours lol 😁
رحم الله ابنك علي وجمعكم به في جنات النعيم
Love it and feel it so deeply in my heart
wonderful thank you for your insights. You have made me happeier
Wonderful tips and ways to become happy- our default setting. Thank you
i wish i can give more than one like lol maybe it's a good idea to be implemented on youtube maybe for experimental i don't know. but I really liked the talk and ان شاء الله I'll get the book to read more about this. the best part is the part where Mohammed said "I'm existed so I think" or the way he said it I really liked this new perspective on looking at the world. Thanks Google for doing this.
Thanks for the free video lecture!
Oh my Gawdat! This guy is amazing!
Great questions too from the audience at google talks ‘ thanks Mo for your mission
He is such a lovely person 💗
Thanks for your book @mogawdat.
I will keep sharing!!! We can change the world!
Changing yourself is the best you can do :-)
at 24:20 he says "time is an illusion" and speaks of 'living in your head' potentially causing unhappiness (as he explains). I thought of Schrodinger's cat at this point and started to wonder if we didn't worry about what is not present then the worry would never exist in the universe. I've probably forgotten the depth of the cat story but just had to wonder what the significance or the value is of... 'worry'. If we all stop worrying wouldn't we be less human? Could we be happy being unhappy? E.g. "oh, Josh, nobody is meant to love their work you just have to get on with it"... what if being unhappy is an essential part of life / the universe. What if nobody reads this?
Great comment. I've been reading up a lot about the 'ego' and how it will never be happy. No matter how much 'more' you strive for, and achieve, it will never be satisfied. Therefore people who are much happier in nature, I suppose, have the ability to quiet down their Ego, so they can be perfectly happy in a country/a job/ a relationship etc, where someone like me might feel unfulfilled. It doesn't mean they are settling or 'getting on with it', just that they have arrived at a place where they're no longer constantly striving to possess something other than what they have.
i read it. you shouldn't be too hopeless about or curious of what's gonna happen next? Just go with the flow. Just live in present world.
i did read it .
Thank you Ali and you butterfly "MO"...
We measure events around changes in nature that we associate with time and assume is time.
Thank you so much Mo 🙏🏽
Happiness is being on the Earth's or (...) payroll and doing it all for other people and future Life 🧬🧬🧬🧬🧬🧬🧬🧬🧬🧬🧬🧬🧬🧬🧬🧬🧬🧬🧬🧬🧬
Wonderful talk
Thank you Mo 🙏🏼
thank you for the book!! loved it!!
Even if you adopt this,, you still have the issues of not having the things you need as a being, Neither would it remove the things in life that you cant overcome and dont go away with time. It would make you more productive and its a good way to distract from the negatives, but i doubt it makes you happy. Some negatives cant be reasoned away like this, nor will it fill the voids
What you believe is true will always become your truth. If you focus energy on an idea or thought that is your future. You make a choice to value it so you create space for it to happen. We walk towards that reality by making tiny choices every single day without realizing it.
According to bhagavadgita our senses are controlled by our mind which in turn controlled by our intelligence . Our actions can be controlled by our intelligence ( ability to think right or wrong,do or not to do etc).guide for our intelligence is dharma (moral principles)
Amazing
God bless you
We made me very HAPPY❤ 1:08:58
Thank you for putting my loss int words.❤
What is consciousness ??? From where does it come from. Who is its source.
We all live in fear..... because we do not know LOVE.
Thank you, reminds me of Abraham Hicks, so true. wish you the happiness will be always in your path.
Thank you!
Gracias por compartir.
Great talk. Lot's of stuff I recognise from ACT therapy (Steven C. Hayes).
Good for him. But what he says is pretty much what Hinduism and later Buddhism have been teaching for eons.
Ultimately its upto a person about when they want to start adopting this.
even if you adopt this,, you still have the issues of not having the things you need as a being and having things that you cant deal with. It would make you more productive and its a good way to distract from the negatives, but i doubt it makes you happy. Some negatives cant be reasoned away like this, nor can it feel some of the voids
@@febeomnibeepboop6367 True. Shunning negativity and attaining ultimate happiness is not something that can be attained by regular human beings in Kalyuga.
Simplicity is not so simple!
It helps if you're wearing a Pink Floyd shirt
at last, some passion and happiness; 1.00.00
I love his tee-shirt. Was he related to George ?
I read this book. Very complicated. The main reason is he has engineering background but not all the reader have this background. He used maths, physics, complicated math equation which lost all the enthusiasm as well as the interest of the reader. Book of the title don’t match with his text.
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Amazing
There is NO HUMAN JOY, pure JOY is Jesus Christ. He is the JOY. There is no other source than Christ.
JOY is LOVE. YOU SEE LOVE IS IN EVERTHING.... TODAY NOBODY WANTS PURE JOY, we want JOY on our TERMS.
SELFISH JOY.... and there is no such thing. We think this is the better way....then we get sick.
You cant be always happy it is not normal be aware of that good and bad is balanced
I love EGYPT, KEMET! LAND OF THE BLACK PEOPLE.
Ramadan Kareem! Google!
Why is the human brain so thought in terms of processing information and thoughts that’s what scares me. Computers are more advanced in terms of processing. Then we are as unless they are endowed with were programmed with negative thoughts, and reoccurring negative thoughts, they just move on.
Already made me happy ابن النيل
Haters gonna hate; Potaters gonna potate
SONIA SOHI lol!
13:44-15:20
I want to work for him.
If happiness goes at a cost of efficiency we should not strife to be happy
because?
say you could save a person from dying but it would not make you happy would you be happy anyhow?
I miss how the subconscious plays a role in this. Actually surprised he didnt bring this up especially when discussing free will.
Having a partner and children does not mean happiness, in fact for many having kids has the opposite effect.
56:53 beg to differ: there are endless kinds of possible positive experiences; definitely enough variety even for a very long life... No need to justify life's tragedies. Hopefully, future people, enjoying ("information-sensitive") gradients of bliss, will laugh at all the ways humans excused suffering
Assalamu Alaykum warahmatullahi wabarakaatuh
Tiffany Caparas Walayakumusalam
Ive listened & read the comments , ? All hes doing is giving new words & criteria to old underlaying principles long written down & understood, (that were more accurately put into their classes), i like the guy but this isnt anything new ? or ground breaking, but a rehash that makes the raw principles more smokey & flakey to dig down into & get it solidly, (in my veiw )
He can’t be happy- he’s wearing a Pink Floyd T-shirt
Doesn't make me happy when I listen to him. Too much brain and not enough heart, iMO. But, we are all wired differently.
Sorry, I’m having a hard time articulating what I’m trying to say
good ideas only
afirmative thought goes farther than a negative thought.
Egyptian RULES!!!
The phrenology of thought is just not true. Freewill model is lacking, the concept of "you" is the center of the problem. Too much spirituality for me. Although Napoleon Hill talked about applied faith as the main factor for success.
Interesting that he never mentions Buddhism.
Buddhism or any other 'ism' has the same message he has found out through experience himself.
Other words you don't need an 'ism' to see what is true.
Nothing he's saying here is an original idea. He's trying to sell his book.
To a lot of people it is an original idea so he awakens a few more people who wouldn't give other 'teachings' time of day . Good on him I say the more people the happier ;-)
Sure. I have no problem with this video. Anyone whose curiosity is piqued by this presentation can easily enough investigate the sources of the ideas and methods for using them in other videos right here on TH-cam. Philosophy has been around for a long time.
The question is whether the subject of this talk is primarily one man's personal journey, or whether it's primarily a philosophical treatise. If it's one man's personal story, he's under no obligation to share with his audience any details he feels would detract from the narrative. If on the other hand he's trying to share a discovery he's made and he withholds facts that he knows contradict his claim to originality, that's something else again. I don't know whether or not he believes the ideas he's presenting here are new- but considering the fact that he's an educated, accomplished person, I find it unlikely that when his son died and he began to question his values he thought, "Well, no one's ever faced this problem before so there's no point in asking how other people have approached solving it." My guess is he did some research into bodies of knowledge or schools of thought ("-isms") that have dealt with suffering, mortality, loss et cetera: Problems that have been around forever and explored extensively, just as he'd approach any other problem. If he'd presented a solution to an engineering problem in purely idiosyncratic terms with no reference to calculus yet it was evident that his solution had been to approach his problem as a calculus problem, it would be just as reasonable to say, "Hold on, aren't you leaving out something here?" If so, why? Are you just trying to sell your book? In this case, that would be my guess. The talk was enjoyable, maybe the book is, too.
I tried my best but the book it horrible
Nothing qualifies him to be an expert on happiness. Even his trauma. All of us who have gone through that come to the conclusion to be more compassionate and help orhers. Not making tons of money.
He does not seem sincere.
Sounds like just another noise hitting around the bush.
That bottle of water was boring by the way.
crazy person.
Google doesn't believe in God!
There is NO TIME, GOD IS Eternity.
To God a day is a thousand years and a thousand years is a day.
We must not think beyond the NOW, (future) because we do not know if we will be alive tomorrow morning, or tonight?
Don't kid yourself with this thinking. If you do, you are a "fool".
Pink Floyd fans have a lot in common
god is change
stanford university lowest suicide rate it sunny.(vitamin D )
Sorry to yuk the yum, but all I see is a one-use plastic bottle in his hand. Speaks volumes.
There is absolutely nothing new in your book that I haven't read in a hundred books during the last 30 years... Except that you are using Google to promote it. Something that Wayne Dyer, Miguel Ruiz, Tony Robbins and others didn't have the benefit of... Yet you won't ever rise to their wisdom...