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Your Unhappy Brain Needs Some Assistance with happiness expert Mo Gawdat

Your Unhappy Brain Needs Some Assistance with happiness expert Mo Gawdat

Update: 2025-06-242
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Happiness is a choice. But it’s not always an easy choice to make.

Mo Gawdat had to face an impossible choice. Before he was a bestselling author and podcast host, Mo worked a lucrative career as Chief Business Officer at Google X. He reached the heights of business influence and amassed a fortune by 29. And yet, he was miserable. It was only after the tragic death of his 21-year-old son Ali that Mo was forced to confront the truth.

Mo now dedicates his life, work, and research to figuring out how human beings can be happier, and he’s on a mission to make 1 billion people happy. He sat down with me to share what he’s learned – that happiness is both a choice and our default setting, how to trick our brains out of survival mode, and why the happiest emotions we feel are rooted in the present, not the past or future.

This…is A Bit of Optimism.

To learn more about Mo and his work, check out:mogawdat.com

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Your Unhappy Brain Needs Some Assistance with happiness expert Mo Gawdat

Your Unhappy Brain Needs Some Assistance with happiness expert Mo Gawdat

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