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Mo Gawdat

Nascido: June 20, 1967 – Egypt

Mo Gawdat is an Egyptian engineer, entrepreneur, and author recognized for his focus on happiness, technology, and artificial intelligence. Formerly Chief Business Officer at Google X, he authored bestsellers such as Solve for Happy and Scary Smart. His #OneBillionHappy initiative has reached a global audience, influencing conversations on well-being and AI ethics.

Biografia e Jornada do Autor

Mo Gawdat is a globally recognized entrepreneur, technologist, and author, best known for his work as the former Chief Business Officer at Google , Google’s innovation lab. Born in Egypt, Gawdat began his career as a systems engineer at IBM Egypt, soon progressing into leadership roles in technology across the Middle East and later joining major companies like NCR, British American Tobacco, and Microsoft, where he spent over seven years overseeing communications in emerging markets. In 2007, he joined Google, where he played an instrumental role in expanding the company’s presence across more than 50 countries, focusing on empowering emerging markets through technology. His move to Google placed him at the center of radical innovation, working on ambitious projects like self-driving cars and life sciences.

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The gravity of the battle means nothing to those at peace
-Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy
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We wear different masks and hide our reality from everyone, including ourselves. Our assumed identities become our whole lives, and we start to believe them—even more than others do
-Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy
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Is there anything ever under our total control? Yes, two things are: your actions and your attitude
-Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy
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We view memories as archives of past events—of what has actually happened. But in reality, memories are nothing more than descriptions of what we think happened
-Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy
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Get real. You are not the star of the movie. Most of what happens around you isn’t about you at all. There are infinite numbers of other movies. In those, if you feature at all, you’re just a supporting actor. It would really help your happiness if you started to look at your life that way
-Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy
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To make a judgment you need to compare a current observation to one you’ve made in the past. To be anxious you need to think about the future and anticipate that it’ll be worse than the present. To be bored you need to long for a state other than what’s happening in the present. To be ashamed you need to re-create a moment that no longer exists. To be unhappy you need to focus on what you want that you don’t yet have. With the exception of pain, no one ever suffered from what was going on in the present moment
-Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy
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Ninety percent of your long-term happiness is predicted not by the external world but by the way your brain processes the world
-Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy
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Happiness is the absence of unhappiness
-Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy
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What I realized was that I would never get to happiness as long as I held on to the idea that as soon as I do this or get that or reach this benchmark I’ll become happy
-Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy
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Happiness is a choice. You can actually achieve it and there is a method to make it happen. Happiness is not a coincidence, it is not given to you by life, it’s entirely our responsibility
-Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

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"Mo Gawdat is the author of four international bestselling books published in over 30 languages"

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"Mo Gawdat, former Chief Business Officer at Google , transitioned to bestselling author and public thinker"

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"Mo Gawdat's book 'Solve for Happy' is described as 'the equation for happiness."

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"Mo Gawdat is recognized as a remarkable thinker whose gifts landed him top positions in half a dozen companies"

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"Everything Mo Gawdat writes is 'an enlightening education in how to be human,' according to Elizabeth Day"

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"Mo Gawdat is best known for their non-fiction books focusing on topics such as happiness and artificial intelligence"

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"Through 12 years of research on happiness, Mo Gawdat created an enduring framework for joy"

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