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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

E144: Happiness Expert Returns: Retrain Your Brain For Maximum Happiness: Mo Gawdat

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.613.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2022

⏱️ 132 minutes

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Summary

Mo Gawdat is the former Chief Business Officer of Google X, it’s ‘moonshot’ division behind it’s most exciting and futuristic projects, as well as the author of Solve For Happy, Scary Smart and his new book, That Little Voice In Your Head, where he returns to the theme of happiness which made his last appearance on the podcast such a success.

Mo Gawdat’s first appearance on Diary of a CEO is still my, and I know many of your, personal favourite episodes. This reunion doesn’t disappoint, as we go more in depth and Mo shares his incredible wisdom on how to approach relationships, how to prevent human suffering and how to be at peace with your choices in life.

Mo’s new book, That Little Voice in Your Head, is available from the 26th May. Inspired by the life of his late son, Ali, he has set out to share a comprehensive model for how to achieve happiness, with an emphasis on generosity and empathy towards ourselves and others.

Topics:

  • How have things changed for you since last time?
  • The signal for you to “move and flow”
  • Are you single?
  • Recognising phases in your life
  • Did you feel like something was missing?
  • Why did you decide to write this book?
  • What illusions did you live under?
  • Our whole lives are a contradiction
  • The economics of love
  • Money is an illusion
  • Not all thoughts are equal
  • Changing the shape of our brain
  • Masculine and Feminine energy
  • Your one selfish request
  • The last guest question


Mo:

https://www.instagram.com/mo_gawdat/

https://twitter.com/mgawdat


Mo’s book:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/That-Little-Voice-Your-Head/


Watch the episodes on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDiaryOfACEO/videos


Follow us on Telegram: https://t.me/diaryofaceo


Sponsors:

Huel - https://my.huel.com/Steven

Craftd - https://bit.ly/3JKOPFx

Transcript

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0:00.0

The most resilient parasite is not a bacteria, it's not a virus, it is a thought and it

0:05.0

shapes everything.

0:06.0

Here's an expert on the topic of happiness.

0:09.0

Google made him the head of Google X.

0:11.0

The return of the Macata.

0:13.0

I know people will leave me when I say this.

0:16.0

Dating is an entirely an economics problem when you don't know what you're looking for

0:20.6

than your advertising ground.

0:21.6

How do you find out what you're looking for though?

0:23.8

If you want to find love, it's very straightforward.

0:26.8

But the last line in your book, you say, please find the compassion in your heart to

0:31.0

want happiness for my wonderful son, Ali.

0:33.0

How did you bring that up?

0:34.8

We were having an easy conversation.

0:40.2

I wrote so for happy at a time where Ali had just left our world and he helped me really,

0:45.8

really figure things out.

0:47.6

We think that this brain is supposed to be there to make a successful.

0:51.3

Your brain is supposed to make you happy.

0:53.8

I feel that the top three reasons for unhappiness in the world are without further ado, I'm

1:00.8

Stephen Bartlett and this is the Diarrhovers CEO.

1:02.8

I hope nobody's listening.

1:04.8

But if you are, then please keep this true self.

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