Solve for Happy By Mo Gawdat: Animated Summary

Today's Big Idea comes from Mo Gawdat and his Book "Solve for Happy". The book takes its starting point in the premise that Happiness starts with a conscious choice. A conscious choice of accepting life exactly as it is.

In 2014 Mo Gawdat was put to the ultimate test when he lost his son during a simple surgical procedure. Seventeen days after this tragedy occurred, he started writing “Solve for Happy”.

Gawdat argues that being happy is our birthright! Our default state. Look at a baby - straight from the factory and set to the optimal settings! If babies have their basic needs covered then they live in the moment and in an immanent state of joy.

This default state applies to adults too. You don’t need a reason to be happy. All you need is “no reason” to be unhappy. Happiness is the absence of unhappiness. It is our resting state when nothing causes interference.

Gawdat, therefore, reasons that we need to “reset our factory settings” and get back to our default state of happiness. To help with this process he created a repeatable engineered model to reach a state of uninterrupted happiness regardless of the circumstances of life. It goes like this: Happiness is equal to or greater than your perception of the events of your life minus your expectations of how life should behave.

His point is that Happiness starts with a conscious choice. A slight change in the way we think can have a drastic impact on how we feel.

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[ITCarlos]

I can actually imagine a butterfly driving a car, or being big enough to catch the car and make it fly... :)

[mahiabraham]

Simple and beautiful video. Thank you.
I have seen the interview of Mo and it was an eye opening experience.
I highly recommend to read the book. It is life changing!!

[tahirisaid]

Reading books has really skyrocket the way I think about investing. Indeed, no one has ever got rich by saving money. If you want to become financially free, You need to Invest. I've come to realize that the key to amassing wealth lies in making sound investments.

[drsiiiiin]

Thanks
I know its good book but i could not read it
You save me time

[Denniekloseofc]

Thanks for saving me from reading just one page of this rubbish

[umnick]

Interesting: just 200 likes for this video. Do people really want to be happy?