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Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy
Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

Happiness decoded through logic, grief, and hope

This is a thoughtful pick if you like practical self-help that feels deeply lived rather than abstract. Mo Gawdat brings an engineer’s clarity to happiness, then tests his ideas against unimaginable personal loss, which gives the book real emotional weight. Readers often come away feeling steadier, comforted, and surprisingly empowered by how actionable its insights feel.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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ISBN: 9781501157585
Authors: Mo Gawdat
Publisher: Gallery Books
Date of Publication: 2018-01-02
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Business, Science, Personal Development, Philosophy
Related Topics: Popular Science, Business, Self Help, Health, Personal Development, Psychology, Mental Health, Neuroscience
Goodreads rating: 3.97
(rated by 10774 readers)

Description

In this 'powerful personal story woven with a rich analysis of what we all seek' (Sergey Brin, cofounder of Google), Mo Gawdat, Chief Business Officer at Google's X, applies his problem-solving skills to understand how the brain processes joy and sadness—and then he solves for happy. In 2001 Mo Gawdat realized that despite his incredible success, he was desperately unhappy. A lifelong learner, he attacked the problem as an engineer would: examining all the provable facts and scrupulously applying logic. Eventually, his countless hours of research and science proved successful, and he discovered the equation for permanent happiness. Thirteen years later, Mo’s algorithm would be put to the ultimate test. After the sudden death of his son, Ali, Mo and his family turned to his equation—and it saved them from despair. In dealing with the horrible loss, Mo found his mission: he would pull off the type of 'moonshot' goal that he and his colleagues were always aiming for—he would share his equation with the world and help as many people as possible become happier. In Solve for Happy, Mo questions some of the most fundamental aspects of our existence, shares the underlying reasons for suffering, and plots out a step-by-step process for achieving lifelong happiness and enduring contentment. He shows us how to view life through a clear lens, teaching us how to dispel the illusions that cloud our thinking; overcome the brain’s blind spots; and embrace five ultimate truths. No matter what obstacles we face, what burdens we bear, what trials we’ve experienced, we can all be content with our present situation and optimistic about the future.
 

Happiness decoded through logic, grief, and hope

This is a thoughtful pick if you like practical self-help that feels deeply lived rather than abstract. Mo Gawdat brings an engineer’s clarity to happiness, then tests his ideas against unimaginable personal loss, which gives the book real emotional weight. Readers often come away feeling steadier, comforted, and surprisingly empowered by how actionable its insights feel.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.