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Solve for Happy
Mo Gawdat
3.98 (10116 Reviews)
Self-growth
Psychology
Mindfulness
Panoramica
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Overview of Solve for Happy

Can a Google executive engineer happiness? Mo Gawdat's formula, born from personal tragedy, transforms grief into joy using his revolutionary 6-7-5 model. Endorsed by Google co-founder Sergey Brin and called "life-changing" by bestselling author Elizabeth Day, this algorithmic approach makes happiness achievable for anyone.

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The Happiness Equation: An Engineer's Breakthrough Discovery

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When Google X executive Mo Gawdat looked in the mirror in 2001, he saw a stranger-successful yet profoundly unhappy despite wealth, status, and achievement. Rather than accepting this state, he applied his analytical mind to decode happiness itself. The result was a mathematical model that transformed his life and hundreds of others. This formula faced its ultimate test when his 21-year-old son Ali died during a routine appendectomy. Remarkably, even through this devastating loss, Gawdat's happiness model held firm. The core insight? Happiness isn't something we achieve-it's our natural state when nothing interferes. Children playing with makeshift toys in refugee camps demonstrate this truth: happiness is our default setting. The breakthrough formula is elegantly simple: Happiness = Events - Expectations. When you perceive events as equal to or better than your expectations, you're happy. This means unhappiness doesn't come from events themselves but from our thoughts about them. Try the "Blank Brain Test": recall something that made you unhappy, then briefly engage your mind elsewhere. For that moment, your suffering disappears-though nothing in reality has changed.

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The Voice in Your Head and Your True Self

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The Illusion of Knowledge and Control

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Breaking the Chains of Fear

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Seven Blind Spots and Five Ultimate Truths

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Reclaiming Your Natural State of Happiness

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