SOLVE FOR HAPPY

He explains how even in the face of the unthinkable happiness is still possible Stylist Solve for Happy is the equation for happiness A startlingly original book about creating and maintaining happiness written by a top Google executive with an engineer s 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 in his spare time 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 college aged son Ali also intellectually gifted died during routine surgery In dealing with the loss Mo found his mission he would pull off the type of moonshot 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 s key premises is that happiness is a default state If we shape expectations to acknowledge the