#344 Mo Gawdat: Engineer Your Path to Joy
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emma gannon
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🗓️ 8 July 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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My guest today is Mo Gawdat, serial entrepreneur and former chief business officer of Google [X]. Through his twelve-year research on the topic of happiness, he created an algorithm for happiness, regardless of circumstance in life. He is the author of Solve For Happy - a book about his mission to deliver his happiness message to one billion people around the world. We also talk about his upcoming new book in this episode so you’ll hear some of what’s next and it was so great to talk to him about his work, his career to date and his perspective on how we can all live a life we enjoy and genuinely helpful tips for dealing with life overwhelm. He also has a brilliant podcast called Slo Mo which I recently guested on, I recommend checking it out! Here is the conversation. <3
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| 0:00.7 | This episode of Control or Delete is sponsored by King Fischer, the company behind |
| 0:04.9 | recognisable home improvement brands such as B&Q and ScrewFix, who help make better homes |
| 0:10.4 | accessible for everyone, and who, by the way, doesn't love a pop down to B&Q. I definitely do. |
| 0:16.4 | King Fischer have recently partnered with Google Cloud, a collaboration that together will |
| 0:20.5 | support and prepare for retail's next digital age from infrastructure to data analytics. |
| 0:26.4 | They are looking for the right people to help them succeed, and that could be you. |
| 0:30.9 | They're looking for tech professionals interested in software engineering, data analytics, |
| 0:35.9 | data science, e-commerce, and much more. They also have a range of brilliant benefits, |
| 0:41.0 | competitive salaries, private health care for the family, and an outstanding pension scheme. |
| 0:46.1 | So if you're interested, go to careers.kingfischer.com today to find out more about their tech and digital |
| 0:53.0 | roles. Thank you so much to King Fischer for sponsoring this podcast. |
| 0:58.0 | Hello and welcome back to Control or Delete. My guest today is Mo Gaudat. He is a serial entrepreneur |
| 1:04.3 | and former chief business officer of Google. Through his 12-year research on the topic of happiness, |
| 1:10.0 | he created an algorithm for happiness, regardless of circumstance in life. He is the author of |
| 1:15.7 | Solve for Happy, a book about a mission to deliver his happiness message to one billion people |
| 1:20.7 | around the world. We also talk about his upcoming new book in this episode, so you'll hear |
| 1:25.6 | some of what's coming next. It was so great to talk to him about his work, his career to date, |
| 1:30.9 | and his perspective on how we can all live a life we enjoy, and he gives some genuinely helpful |
| 1:36.3 | tips for dealing with life overwhelm. He also has a brilliant podcast called Slow Mo, which I recently |
| 1:42.4 | guessed it on, and I really recommend checking out all of his work. Here is the conversation with Mo |
| 1:48.4 | that I absolutely loved, and I hope you enjoy it too. |
| 1:55.6 | So hello, Mo. Thank you so much for joining me on my podcast. |
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