Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy Audiobook (Free)

Solve for Happy is a startlingly original reserve about creating and maintaining happiness, written by a high Google executive with an engineer’s training and fondness for thoroughly analyzing a issue.

In 2001, Mo Gawdat, an extraordinary thinker whose gifts had landed him best positions in two a dozen companies and who – in his free time – had created significant wealth, understood that he was desperately unhappy. A lifelong learner, he attacked the issue as an engineer would, analyzing all the about Solve For Content: Engineer Your Path to Pleasure provable specifics and scrupulously following reasoning. When he was finished, he had discovered the equation for enduring happiness.

Ten years later on, that research preserved him from despair when his college-aged boy, Ali – also intellectually gifted – died during regular surgery. In dealing with losing, Mo discovered his mission: he’d pull off the sort of ‘moonshot’ that he and his Google [X] colleagues were always targeting: he would help ten million people become more happy by pouring his happiness principles into a reserve and distributing its message around the world.

One of Solve for Happy’s essential premises is that pleasure is a default state. If we shape expectations to recognize the full range of feasible events, unhappiness is normally coming to being defeated. To steer clear of unhappiness traps, we must dispel the six illusions that cloud our thinking (e.g., the illusion of your time, of control, and of fear); overcome the brain’s seven dangerous defects (e.g., the propensity to exaggerate, label, and filter), and embrace five greatest truths (e.g., switch is real, now could be real, unconditional like is genuine).

By means of several highly first thought experiments, Mo helps readers find enduring contentment by questioning some of the most fundamental areas of their existence.