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

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Business, Education, Society & Culture

4.5 • 17.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2022

⏱️ 131 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. Follow Mo: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mo_gawdat/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/mgawdat Mo’s book - https://www.amazon.co.uk/That-Little-Voice-Your-Head/ Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Most resilient parasite is not a bacteria, it's not a virus, it is a thought and it shapes everything.
0:06.0	He is 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 Moqata. I know people will hate me when I say this.
0:15.8	Dating isn't entirely an economics problem when you don't know what you're
0:20.0	looking for then you're advertising wrong. 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	At the last line in your book, you say, please find the compassion in your heart
0:30.9	to want happiness for my wonderful son, Ali.
0:33.0	Why did you bring that up? We were having an easy conversation.
0:37.0	I wrote So-For- Happy at a time where Ali had just left our world and he helped me really, really figure things out.
0:47.0	We think that this brain is supposed to be there to make us successful.
0:51.0	Your brain is supposed to make you happy. I feel that the top three reasons
0:56.0	for unhappiness in the world are...
0:58.7	Without further ado, I'm Stephen Bartlett and this is the driver CEO. I hope nobody's listening, but if you
1:05.2	are, then please keep this to yourself.
1:07.3	The return of Mo Gauter.
1:17.0	Oh man, no pressure.
1:19.0	I mean I don't really know what to say so our first conversation as you'll know as I've said many times to my audience is
1:27.4	Still to this date my favorite podcast episode of all time for so many reasons
1:32.4	It had everything that I've ever wanted from a conversation.
1:37.0	It had the personal story delivered in a way with immense honesty and vulnerability and wisdom.
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