#62: Solve for Happy with Mo Gawdat

Mo Gawdat is the former Chief Business Officer at Google’s [X] and the author of the amazing bestseller Solve for Happy. After decades of incredible success as a businessman that included Mo opening up almost half of Google`s offices globally, Mo found himself successful but miserable and turned to studying happiness as a way out. In 2014, his practice was put to the ultimate test when his son Ali died during a routine surgery, and Mo has dedicated his life to making people happy ever since. If you want to learn how to bring happiness into TODAY, this episode is for you! Max Out Insights: Society teaches us that life success hinges on material success, and that`s the only way to be happy. Nothing could be further from the truth. Outward success cannot produce happiness or security, because these are internal states of BEING, not end states to reach and stay at You don`t have to waste 25 years of chasing success before realizing that happiness is within you Why even 16 cars (including 2 Ferraris!) won`t make you happy The greatest joy you get from money beyond meeting your basic needs is making others happy When you give, you get back more than what you give Happiness is the optimal state of performance To be both successful and happy, set your ambitions high and your expectations low How you feel about yourself when you`re by yourself is the ultimate measure of success Max Out Quotes: “Be successful in life, but be successful for the right reason.” “Your happiness is equal to or greater than the difference between the events of your life and your hopes and expectations of how life should be. It`s that comparison that makes you happy or unhappy.” “The game is so much more interesting when it`s difficult.” “Because life is a game, what you do is you want the difficult parts.” “The only things you can control in life are your actions and your attitude.” “It`s the hardest thing ever for some of us to sit alone and meet ourselves.” “Unless you`re a serial killer, there`s no good or bad. Just who you are.” “There is no happiness that exceeds the happiness of being in the here and now, except for making another person happy.”