Solve for Happy is a startlingly original book about creating and maintaining happiness, written by a top Google executive with an engineer's training and fondness for thoroughly analyzing a problem. In 2004, Mo Gawdat, a remarkable thinker whose gifts had landed him top positions in half a dozen companies and who - in his spare time - had created significant wealth, realized that he was desperately unhappy. A lifelong learner, he attacked the problem as an engineer would, examining all the provable facts and scrupulously following logic. When he was finished, he had discovered the equation for enduring happiness. Ten years later, that research saved him from despair when his college-aged son, Ali - also intellectually gifted - died during routine surgery. In dealing with the loss, Mo found his mission: he would pull off the type of 'moonshot' that he and his Google [X] colleagues were always aiming for: he would help ten million people become happier by pouring his happiness principles into a book and spreading its message around the world. One of Solve for Happy's key premises is that happiness is a default state. If we shape expectations to acknowledge the full range of possible events, unhappiness is on its way to being defeated. To steer clear of unhappiness traps, we must dispel the six illusions that cloud our thinking (e.g., the illusion of time, of control, and of fear); overcome the brain's seven deadly defects (e.g., the tendency to exaggerate, label, and filter), and embrace five ultimate truths (e.g., change is real, now is real, unconditional love is real). By means of several highly original thought experiments, Mo helps readers find enduring contentment by questioning some of the most fundamental aspects of their existence.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
ISBN-13
9781509809936
eBay Product ID (ePID)
232371042
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Biological Psychology
Author
MO Gawdat
Publication Name
Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Science
Publication Year
2017
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
234mm
Item Width
153mm
Item Weight
484g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
MO Gawdat
Topic
Mental Health
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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