What is the Equation for Happiness? Mo Gawdat and Joe De Sena

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Mo Gawdat, today’s guest on Spartan Up, tells Joe De Sena happiness, like fitness, is something you can build. He’s the author of "Solve for Happy'' and former Chief Business Officer of Google [X], and today he’s on a mission to teach the art and practice of happiness.

Mo experienced a uniquely devastating event, the death of his son, it inspired in him a drive to understand the formula of happiness. Happiness, he says, follows a predictable equation.

"You can actually follow an algorithm, similar to the idea of if I eat healthy and work out I'll be fitter. If I make happiness, my priority, and do the work, I'll be happier."

This episode of Spartan Up podcast is brought to you by Headspace You deserve to feel happier, and Headspace is meditation made simple. Visit HEADSPACE.com/SPARTAN for a FREE one month trial with access to Headspace’s full library of meditations for every situation.

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Host: Joe De Sena

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0:00.0	frequently on you know on yearly basis I would you know train a hundred between
0:06.3	billionaire and multi multi multi multi millionaires and they're all miserable and
0:11.8	and it's really really eye opening. It's really eye opening that you get everything that the modern world is telling us is what we need, but in reality you're still unable to find that contentment and peace and happiness with the situation.
0:26.2	While you, Joe, would go into a race where you're half to, you know, half of you is buried in snow and you can find that you know like I'm happy with this I'm okay with this I'm enjoying this. Now this difference is to be understood. You know take the situation we're in now, COVID-19.
0:47.0	Welcome to the Spartan Up podcast with Joe Descena,
0:50.0	founder and CEO of Spartan Race.
0:56.0	We are talking about overcoming obstacles.
1:02.0	The same way we teach people to get over obstacles on the course. We will teach you here on the Spartan
1:03.8	up podcast to get over obstacles in your mind.
1:08.0	Mo Gedette, today's guest on Spartan Up, says happiness, like fitness, is something you can build. The author of
1:13.7	Sol for Happy and the former chief business officer of Google X is today on a
1:18.0	mission to teach the art, the practice, and the science of happiness.
1:23.6	This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by Head Space.
1:26.9	You deserve to feel happier and Head Space is meditation made simple.
1:31.7	Go to Headspace.com slash Spartan
1:34.3	for a free one month trial
1:36.1	with access to Headspace's full library of meditations for every situation.
1:41.0	Call me Mo or Hey and I'll be fine.
1:45.0	And you've got a podcast called Slowmo.
1:49.0	And my little bit of understanding is you want us all to slow down.
1:53.7	Explain that.
1:55.4	Well, you and I are not that different, let's put it this way.
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