S2 Ep #9 💛 Mo Gawdat: Slowing down is the only way we can move forward [55-min listen]
“The world is in a high stakes game right now: if we wake up it can be really wonderful, but if we don’t it will be bad.”
- Mo Gawdat
It’s the final episode of our Moving Forward podcast series, and we’re closing in style.
Today’s guest is Mo Gawdat, ex-chief business officer of Google [X], serial entrepreneur and the best-selling author of Solve for Happy: Engineering Your Path to Joy (2017).
Through 12 years of research on the topic of happiness, Mo created an algorithm and a repeatable well-engineered model to reach a state of uninterrupted happiness regardless of what’s going on in our lives.
This happiness model proved highly effective and, in 2014, was put to the ultimate test when he lost his son Ali to preventable medical error during a simple surgical procedure.
Solve For Happy is the pillar for a mission Mo has committed to as his personal moonshot, a mission to deliver his happiness message to one billion people around the world, and the book has been a brilliant resource and comfort to us and to so many of our members over the past few months as global events continue to rock our worlds…
In this episode we cover:
• Why we should all expect happiness right now
• The secret to happiness being in how we interpret what life shows us
• How looking at the bigger picture and the history of humanity can give us better clarity and perspective on Covid-19
• How to schedule anxiety and curate our intake of information
• How slowing down and going inwards is the best way to make big breakthroughs and ultimately be more productive and efficient (in all areas of life)
• Why it’s crucial that all of us – men and women - embrace our feminine side and qualities like empathy and intuition, as well as the ability to embrace new paradigms
• How we should prioritise and then invest in happiness the way we invest in fitness and our general health
DETAILS
i: @mo_gawdat + @solve.for.happy
b: Solve for Happy: Engineering Your Path to Joy [2017]
pod: Slo Mo
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SHOW NOTES
Book: The Master and His Emissary - The Divided Brain and The Making of the Western World
TED Talk: Jill Bolte-Taylor, My Stroke of Insight
