The man who invented a happiness algorithm — and learnt to cope with his son’s sudden death Mo Gawdat thought he had unearthed the secret of unalloyed joy.

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Inspired by Ali and his family’s experience of this tragedy, Mo wrote a book to explain his happiness equation and why it works even under the hardest circumstances. Mo Gawdat’s Moonshot for Humanity: Interview Part I ITW: Mo Gawdat, tell us about your career and how did you come to create a movement to make one billion people happy… I spent the last 11 years of my life working at Google. Losing one's child is a terrible experience, and I have a lot of sympathy with parents who have to live through it. Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path To Joy by Mo Gawdat is available to order here. This is what happened to me when my path crossed with that of Mo Gawdat who spoke to me about what it is to live a contented life in a way that had an immediate and practical impact on my outlook. This episode is slightly longer than normal just because I didn't want to cut any of it. Mo Gawdat is also a serial entrepreneur who has co-founded more than 15 businesses in his career. He is the author of Solve for Happy: Engineering Your Path to Joy – a book dedicated to his son Ali Gawdat who died in 2014, the book outlines methods for managing and preventing disappointment. "My Son Did the Momo Challenge, and Now He's Dead" Creepypasta — Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019) /r/nosleep Reddit NoSleep title: My son did the Momo challenge, and now he's dead. On this week's Unbeatable Mind Podcast, Mark Divine sits down with Mo Gawdat, Chief Business Officer at Google X and author of Solve For Happy. In 2001, Mo Gawdat had what seemed like the essential elements of a happy life. Dedicated to his son Ali Gawdat who died in 2014, the book outlines methods for managing and preventing disappointment. He is the author of Solve for Happy: Engineering Your Path to Joy – a book dedicated to his son Ali Gawdat who died in 2014, the book outlines methods for managing and preventing disappointment. This is what happened to me when my path crossed with that of Mo Gawdat who spoke to me about what it is to live a contented life in a way that had an immediate and practical impact on my outlook. His book, The formula of happiness that has just appeared in French is dedicated to his son Ali, who died in 2014. I learned so much from Mo in just this one hour conversation and I know you will too in Episode 467 with Mo Gawdat. Forbes France met Mo Gawdat during his visit to Paris.. Read the article in french As Mo Gawdat explains in the introduction, he was moved to write "Solve for Happy" as a way to deal with the loss of his teenage son. But when it comes to the book itself, it reads more as a corporate deck hastily put together by the HR department than a genuine attempt to explain how to achieve … Mo Gawdat is also a serial entrepreneur who has co-founded more than 15 businesses in his career. This 50-year-old Egyptian claims to have found the equation of happiness. In 2014, Mo Gawdat's son died unexpectedly. It draws from a number of different philosophies and religions, although Buddhism, Stoicism and Mindfulness are central tenets. Determined to turn this around Gawdat, an engineer by trade who is now an executive at Google, formulated an equation for happiness. I hope you take as much from Mo's words as I have. Mo Gawdat was miserable for several years in his twenties and thirties despite his high-flying job, income and happy family unit. Motivated by the loss, he went searching for the formula for happiness, which he describes in his book, Solve for Happy.