Discover the equation for happiness in this international bestseller.Solve for Happy is a startlingly original book about creating and maintaining happiness, written by a top Google executive with an engineer&#39s training and fondness for thoroughly analyzing a problem. Mo Gawdat, a remarkable thinker whose gifts had landed him top positions in half a dozen companies and who &ndash in his spare time &ndash had created significant wealth, realized that he was desperately unhappy. A lifelong learner, he attacked the problem as an engineer would, examining all the provable facts and scrupulously following logic. When he was finished, he had discovered the equation for enduring happiness.Ten years later, that research saved him from despair when his collegeaged son, Ali &ndash also intellectually gifted &ndash died during routine surgery. In dealing with the loss, Mo found his mission he would pull off the type of &#39moonshot&#39 that he and his Google [X] colleagues were always aiming for he would help ten million people become happier by pouring his happiness principles into a book and spreading its message around the world.One of Solve for Happy&#39s key premises is that happiness is a default state. If we shape expectations to acknowledge the full range of possible events, unhappiness is on its way to being defeated. To steer clear of unhappiness traps, we must dispel the six illusions that cloud our thinking (e.g., the illusion of time, of control, and of fear)...

Binding: Paperback;368 pages; Publisher: Macmillan Publishers Int Ltd - MDL; Classification: VSP; Weight: 370 g; Dimensions: 130 x 197 x 23

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