Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path To Joy

Product Description

Solve for Happy is a startlingly original book about creating & maintaining happiness written by a top Google executive with an engineer's training & fondness for thoroughly analyzing a problem In 2001 Mo Gawdat a remarkable thinker whose gifts had landed him top positions in half a dozen companies & 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 & 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 & his Google X colleagues were always aiming for he would help ten million people become happier by pouring his happiness principles into a book & 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 (eg the illusion of time of control & of fear); overcome the brain's seven deadly defects (eg the tendency to exaggerate label & filter) & embrace five ultimate truths (eg 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