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SOLVE FOR HAPPY - MO GAWDAT KARTONIERT (TB)

Solve for Happy is the equation for happiness. 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.   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.  'He explains how even in the face of the unthinkable 
happiness is still possible' - Stylist

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