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Solve for Happy
Mo Gawdat ISBN 9781509809950
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Mo Gawdat ISBN 9781509809950
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This book by Mo Gawdat has come up 3 times on Diary of a CEO. The people who brought it up: Mo Gawdat, Steven Bartlett. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2021-10-11 and the most recent from 2026-06-01. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
“the uh soul for happy is the book that I'm referring to. Here it is. Yeah. Engineering your path to joy. What a fantastic book. I quote this book all the time all around the world.”— Steven Bartlett
The guest here is Mo Gawdat: Former Chief Business Officer at Google X, author of Solve for Happy and Scary Smart, and founder of AI startup Emma. He's been warning about AI's societal impact since long before ChatGPT made it mainstream. Ex-Google AI exec Mo Gawdat warns of a coming decade of dystopia from AI-driven job loss, autonomous weapons and broken democracy, before an eventual utopia.
“i wrote sulfur happy at a time where ali had just left our world and he helped me really really figure things out”— Mo Gawdat
The guest here is Mo Gawdat: Former Chief Business Officer of Google X, happiness author of Solve for Happy and Scary Smart, and founder of the One Billion Happy mission, whose son Ali died in 2014. Mo Gawdat returns to explain how thoughts shape happiness, why your brain can be rewired, and the economics of love.
“And so I sat down to write first time that I really write in English... I wrote for 4 and 1/2 months straight.”— Mo Gawdat
The guest here is Mo Gawdat: Former Chief Business Officer of Google X, happiness author (Solve for Happy), and AI thinker (Scary Smart) who founded the One Billion Happy movement after losing his son Ali. Former Google X exec Mo Gawdat shares his happiness equation, processing his son's death, and an urgent warning about AI.
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