The Happiness Expert That Made 51 Million People Happier: Mo Gawdat

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2021

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

It’s hard to know where to begin describing such an incredible person as Mo Gawdat. He’s 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’s new book is all about Artificial Intelligence. Mo has always been focused on the future and what’s coming next. And for the first time, working on A.I., he was scared. But what Mo found, and what he shares with us, is that the next technological age that’s coming can be a Utopia, if we choose to make it. Follow Mo: Twitter - https://twitter.com/MGawdat Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mo_gawdat Mo’s new book - https://amzn.eu/d/cvGj7ar Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Learn from your swipes on Instagram. Your brain does what you tell it to do. You're the boss. Tell it. AI is going to be a billion times smarter than humans. I would take data points and measurements and on topics like happiness. Gratitude is the ultimate solution to the happiness equation.
0:16.5	Mo Gaudat, he is an expert on the topic of happiness.
0:20.4	If everyone in the world listened to this podcast episode, the world would be a
0:24.4	drastically better place.
0:25.8	I was chief business officer of Google X.
0:27.8	Through that network, I've connected with the wisest people on the planet.
0:31.6	We have an app coming out in Christmas that is aiming to get to the point where we know exactly why you're unhappy.
0:38.0	Literally the simplest surgical operation not known to humankind, but five mistakes happened and four hours later Ali was gone.
0:47.0	There's nothing I can do to bring him back, but I can make his essence alive.
0:52.0	My intention shifted from spending the rest of my life in grief
0:57.0	to actually writing what he taught me
0:58.8	so that I can share it with the world.
1:18.1	Moq out at. You know I've done this podcast for the last 12 months every week and there's one name which my guests, the people that sit in front to me, the successful athletes, entrepreneurs,
1:24.6	business people from all walks of life and just generally ambitious successful people kept saying,
1:29.6	and it was Mo's name. You know, I hype up these episodes a lot, but I've never said this.
1:35.0	This was my favorite podcast of all time because of the lasting value that I know it will have on my life.
1:45.0	I think I cried twice in this podcast episode.
1:48.0	Who is Moe?
1:50.0	He's a genius business person.
1:52.0	So smart in facts that Google
1:53.8	made him the head of Google X which was their special projects division
1:57.0	where they do the most crazy insane things from flying cars to machine learning
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