The Happiness Expert Making 1 Billion People Happier - Mo Gawdat

Subscribe to LifeNotes 👉 https://go.aliabdaal.com/lifenotes_deepdive Go to https://shortform.com/deepdive to get 20% off the annual premium subscription. 📚 Check Out My New York Times Bestselling Book Feel-Good Productivity! 👉 https://go.feelgoodproductivity.com/podcast 📧 Sign up for LifeNotes - my weekly newsletter where I share actionable productivity tips, practical life advice, and high-quality insights from across the web directly to your inbox. 👉https://go.aliabdaal.com/lifenotes/podcast Some moments in life fundamentally change the way you think about the world - that’s what this conversation with Mo Gawdat did for me and I’m certain it will for you too. Mo is the former Chief Business Officer of Google X, Google's moonshot factory of innovation, a prolific author on the topic of happiness, and has an incredibly touching story. In 2014, Mo lost his son Ali unexpectedly during a routine medical procedure, and in an attempt to honour Ali, Mo set off on a mission to spread the message that happiness can be learned and shared with one simple technique: the happiness equation. For the next 90 minutes I ask you to forget everything you’ve learned about happiness from the modern world until now. In the episode we talk about a lot of things, things that may sit uncomfortably with some people, but also have the potential to be truly life changing. Season 3 Episode 1 00:00 Intro 2:16 Writing a book about happiness after losing your son 07:37 Battling the negativity bias instinct 10:42 Is happiness a choice? 19:59 The difference between happiness and fun 31:07 Understanding the happiness equation and unhappiness 39:23 Do lower expectations make us happier? 43:01 How should we manage ambitions? 57:00 You are born a millionaire 01:01:31 Is solve for happy the domain of the privileged? 01:09:00 Relationships: life is a question of context 01:15:22 Feminine vs masculine energy 🔗 CONNECT WITH MO 🎥 YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/MoGawdatOfficial 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/mgawdat 📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mo_gawdat/ 💻 Website - https://www.mogawdat.com/ 🎙 Podcast - https://apple.co/3zMl71m 😊 Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path To Joy - https://geni.us/4pwM2 🗣 That Little Voice In Your Head - https://geni.us/l34pdv 🔗 CONNECT WITH ALI 🎥 YouTube Channel - https://youtube.com/aliabdaal 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/aliabdaal 📸 Instagram - https://instagram.com/aliabdaal 💻 Website - https://aliabdaal.com 👥 Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ali-abdaal/ 📚 RESOURCES MENTIONED Derek Sivers' Blog - https://sive.rs/ Anything You Want by Derek Sivers - https://geni.us/A9aSqx How To Not Die Alone by Logan Ury - https://geni.us/QMbAA Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl - https://geni.us/KF8e Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor on Slo Mo Meet the Four Characters of the Brain That Run Your Life - https://apple.co/3OarfVB Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything - https://geni.us/jxr3a Matthieu Ricard - https://www.matthieuricard.org/en/ Men Are From Mars Women are from Venus by John Gray - https://geni.us/ZHR4S 📙 SPONSORED BY SHORTFORM This episode is kindly brought to you by Shortform, the world's best provider of guides for non-fiction books. Shortform gives you comprehensive coverage of thousands of books, the key ideas, clearly and simply explained, plus smart commentary and analysis. It’s like your smartest friend teaching you about a book. Go to www.shortform.com/deepdive to get 20% off the annual premium subscription. 📄SHOW NOTES & TRANSCRIPT Visit the website for the transcript and highlights from the conversation - https://aliabdaal.com/podcast/ 🎙 ABOUT THE PODCAST The podcast that delves into the minds of entrepreneurs, creators and other inspiring people to uncover their journey's towards finding joy and fulfilment at work and in life. My names Ali, and in each episode I chat to my guests about the philosophies, strategies and tools that've helped them along the path to living a life of happiness and meaning. Want to start your own podcast? We use Transistor! https://go.aliabdaal.com/transistor 🎧 LISTEN FOR FREE Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast... Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7gZkflC... RSS - https://feeds.transistor.fm/deep-dive 🙏 LEAVE A REVIEW If you enjoyed listening to the podcast, we'd love for you to leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts to help others discover the show :) https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast... 👋🏼 GET IN TOUCH You can also Tweet @AliAbdaal with any feedback, ideas or thoughts about the lessons you've learnt from the episodes and we can thank you personally for tuning in 🙏 PS: Some of the links in this description are affiliate links that I get a kickback from 😜