56 min

Mo Gawdat Desperately Seeking Wisdom

    • Society & Culture

Mo Gawdat is the former Chief Business Officer for Google X and the author of the international bestselling book “Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy.”

For years, he studied happiness as if it was a mathematical problem to be solved, and believed he had cracked the secret of being content.

But when his 21 year old son, Ali, died suddenly during a routine operation, nothing made sense anymore.

How could he even be alive, let alone happy, in a world where such a terrible thing could happen?

Mo speaks about how he made peace with his son’s death and made his life worth living again.

Mo Gawdat is the former Chief Business Officer for Google X and the author of the international bestselling book “Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy.”

For years, he studied happiness as if it was a mathematical problem to be solved, and believed he had cracked the secret of being content.

But when his 21 year old son, Ali, died suddenly during a routine operation, nothing made sense anymore.

How could he even be alive, let alone happy, in a world where such a terrible thing could happen?

Mo speaks about how he made peace with his son’s death and made his life worth living again.

56 min

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