This is episode number four six seven with Google X's MoGudet.

Welcome to the School of Greatness. My name is Louis Howe's former pro athlete

turned lifestyle entrepreneur. In each week we bring you an inspiring person or message

to help you discover how to unlock your inner greatness. Thanks for spending some time with me today.

Now let the class begin.

Welcome everyone. If you're looking to find out the equation to happiness then look no further.

Today we have on MoGudet who joined Google in 2007. He managed Google's business in over 50

countries and focusing on his biggest passion, emerging markets and the vast degree of diversity

and challenges they face. Now over the years Mo has started close to half of Google's operations

worldwide. And in 2013 Mo joined Google X and is now chief business officer of that department.

He's also a serial entrepreneur who's co-founded more than 15 businesses in his career. He actively

serves as the board member of several technology health and fitness and consumer good startups

as well as several government technology and innovation brands in the Middle East and Eastern

and in the last 10 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 100

countries in his new book is called Solve for Happy. And he was faced with his biggest challenge

a few years ago when he lost his son. And he talks about if the equation for happiness works even

in the biggest tragedies that we may face. And what we cover today are what most unhappy people

have in common and the easy way to fix this. Mo's happiness equation that works for every situation,

you're going to learn this very quickly, also how to handle missed expectations. The difference

between pain and suffering and the six grand illusions that make us suffer and how to get around

them, this is a powerful episode. And again, it's solving something that so many of us are striving

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