Moment 38 - Happiness Is A Choice: The Controversial Truth: Mo Gawdat

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

In these ‘Moment’ episodes of my podcast, I’ll be selecting my favourite moments from previous episodes of The Diary Of A CEO.

In this episode we go back to a moment from one of my favourite episodes with Mo Gawdat. Mo has co-founded over 20 businesses, he’s the author of the ground-breaking ‘Solve for Happy’ and he was chief business officer of the pioneering wing of google, Google X, the ‘moonshot factory’ where they work on all the latest technologies like self-driving cars and robots.

But most importantly, Mo has learnt perspective about life. When his son died, this sent him on an incredible journey to look within himself and find the ‘happiness equation’, a simple technique that can help us all reduce our unhappiness and appreciate life, and ourselves, more.

Mo Gawdat’s episode simply blew me away. There were so many hard-hitting truths which he exposed about happiness, but this clip might just have the best of them all.

Happiness is a choice. This is something not everyone is willing to accept. But as you’ll hear in this moment episode, you can only be happy once you choose to be.

Episode 101 - https://g2ul0.app.link/9MCCcFlLnmb

Mo:
https://twitter.com/MGawdat?
https://www.instagram.com/mo_gawdat/?...

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

Transcript

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0:00.0	You're inferring something which I think will annoy a lot of people.
0:07.2	And that is that happiness is a choice.
0:09.9	Oh totally.
0:11.1	And that you can choose to be happy.
0:13.5	Totally.
0:14.5	And that if you're unhappy and really for many circumstances in our life day to day and
0:18.3	work and love in relationships, personal responsibility is the answer.
0:24.2	And I'm highly on you.
0:25.6	And I lack thereof is the cause.
0:27.1	Absolutely.
0:28.1	You know what you just did?
0:29.1	I've just lost us 80% of the audience.
0:32.0	I know.
0:33.0	Do you know why I know?
0:34.0	Because I did a tweet one day about this.
0:35.0	And what my tweet was, there's like a cut, I guess a mental model, but there's a reframing
0:40.2	that can I think has brought me happiness, which is when something happens to me, I used
0:45.6	to, like many people say, X thing that happened has pissed me off.
0:50.8	And just by changing that sentence to I've pissed myself off because of X thing.
0:55.2	Absolutely.
0:56.2	And I tweeted that.
0:57.2	And I was like, try it, just like reframe it and take personal responsibility for how
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