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Slo Mo: A Podcast with Mo Gawdat

Mo Gawdat (Part 1) - My New Book, Scary Smart, and the Most Important Message of Our Time

Slo Mo: A Podcast with Mo Gawdat

Mo Gawdat

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In this special, two-part episode, I want to talk to you about my new book, Scary Smart, releasing September 30, 2021. I know the title of this episode sounds dramatic, but I'm not exaggerating. This episode may scare you because the stakes may be existential, but I promise there's hope. You may be wondering about the connection between Solve for Happy, One Billion Happy, and...Artificial Intelligence? I promise it will all make sense soon.And by the way - If you pre-order your copy bef...

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0:00.0

I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudet. This podcast is nothing more than a conversation between two good friends sharing inspiring life stories and perhaps

0:16.3

some nuggets of wisdom along the way.

0:20.3

This is your invitation to slow down with us.

0:25.7

Welcome to slow more. Today I want to talk to you about my new book. So the guest will be you really because you are the hero in the story I'm about to tell you. Scary Smart is the name of the

0:47.9

book in English will publish by September 30th in English and October 1st in Dutch in Dutch it's going to be called

0:57.5

Let me try this

1:02.1

Yeah, not perfect Dutch, but basically it means creepy smart, it's even more scary than scary smart.

1:10.0

And the idea is I'm starting to get all of those interview requests and

1:14.0

podcast requests and you know I'm going to be talking about the book everywhere.

1:18.8

So I thought you my family should have an idea about scary smart Smart first. So you hear it here first before it is

1:26.3

covered anywhere else. Scary Smart is available. It's basically going to be out in international English in September and it will be available in Dutch 1st of October

1:38.4

and it's already available for pre-ordering in international English today. It's available for preordering in

1:44.0

Dutch today and it will be available in North America for preordering early August.

1:48.9

And in the show notes I have a link to where you can click to pre-order. Now I'm going to tell you quite a bit about the concepts of Scary Smart today,

1:58.0

but I want to remind you that pre-ordering really helps an author be successful and spread the message.

2:03.6

So if your intention is to buy the book at any point in time,

2:07.3

please go ahead and pre-order it today.

2:09.6

And maybe listen first, because maybe you won't like it it but if your intention is to order it when it releases please

2:16.4

preorder it today because it definitely helps spread the message to make it even sweeter

2:21.4

I'm going to tell you about a promotion that I'm running,

2:24.8

which will give you immediate access to limited edition signed copies if you preorder

2:31.0

that I will send you anywhere in the world, but also to make it sweeter because I'll be spending

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