The Happiness Expert That Made 51 Million People Happier: Mo Gawdat | E101

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

October 11, 2021

Duration

1h 57m

Channel

The Diary of a CEO

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

This weeks episode entitled 'The Happiness Expert That Made 51 Million People Happier' topics: 0:00 Intro 05:54 Why did you write a book about happiness? 13:06 The passing of your son Ali 28:20 What is the cause of unhappiness 36:13 Is happiness a choice? 49:40 Why my brain is not me 55:46 Time - The importance of being present 01:00:15 The last thing Ali told me 01:02:53 No one would rewrite their history 01:07:52 How do I know which ambitions to follow? 01:13:48 Gratitude 01:19:49 Conditional love vs unconditional love 01:22:29 Romantic love 01:26:52 The greatest pandemic of our time 01:50:24 Our question segment Transcript for the podcast: https://thediaryofaceo.wixsite.com/transcripts Mo: https://twitter.com/MGawdat? https://www.instagram.com/mo_gawdat/?hl=en Mo’s new book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Scary-Smart-Future-Artificial-Intelligence/dp/1529077184 The Diary Of a CEO live - Sign up here - https://g2ul0.app.link/diaryofaceolive Listen on: Apple podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-diary-of-a-ceo-by-steven-bartlett/id1291423644 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7iQXmUT7XGuZSzAMjoNWlX FOLLOW ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steven/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/SteveBartlettSC Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-bartlett-56986834/ Sponsor - https://uk.huel.com/

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Mo Gawdat

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• Steven Bartlett

  host

• Narrator

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🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of The Diary of a CEO, featuring Mo Gawdat and Steven Bartlett, The Happiness Expert That Made 51 Million People Happier: Mo Gawdat | E101 explores engineer-Turned-Happiness-Expert Reveals Formula For Joy And Future AI Mo Gawdat, former Chief Business Officer at Google X, shares how early success, deep depression, and the tragic loss of his son Ali led him to engineer a practical model for happiness and launch the One Billion Happy movement. He explains happiness as a mathematical-like equation between life’s events and our expectations, and shows how illusions of control, time, and ego create unnecessary suffering. Gawdat outlines tools like radical acceptance, gratitude, managing inner dialogue, and separating love from conditions to build resilient, lasting happiness. In the second half, he warns that rapidly advancing artificial intelligence will soon surpass human intelligence and argues our everyday online behavior is effectively “raising” these sentient systems, making our ethics and online conduct critical to humanity’s future.

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