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Your Unhappy Brain Needs Some Assistance with happiness expert Mo Gawdat

2025/6/24
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A Bit of Optimism
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讨论创建自由派版本的乔·罗根的播客主持人。
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Simon Sinek
以真诚和学习态度著称的领导力专家和激励演讲者。
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Simon Sinek: 我很高兴看到True Classic公司的成长，他们的T恤我一直很喜欢。移除压力源是实现幸福的有效策略，这与大多数人通过增加事物来寻求幸福的方式相反。这种反向策略非常实用，值得尝试。 Mo Gawdat: 幸福是你的默认设置，你需要移除负面因素才能快乐。幸福是一个移除不快乐的过程，而不是一个增加快乐的过程。宇宙的设计就是允许矛盾的存在，而矛盾的存在是最高形式的智慧。女性更容易接受矛盾的情感。

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Mo Gawdat, former Chief Business Officer at Google X, shares his personal journey from immense professional success and misery to finding happiness after the tragic loss of his son. He emphasizes that happiness is a choice, though not always easy.
  • Happiness is a choice, but not an easy one.
  • Mo Gawdat's personal experience of finding happiness after tragedy.
  • Happiness is a practice, not something that is simply found.

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Happiness is a choice. But it’s not always an easy choice to make.Mo Gawdat had to face an impossible choice. Before he was a bestselling author and podcast host, Mo worked a lucrative career as Chief Business Officer at Google X. He reached the heights of business influence and amassed a fortune by 29. And yet, he was miserable. It was only after the tragic death of his 21-year-old son Ali that Mo was forced to confront the truth.Mo now dedicates his life, work, and research to figuring out how human beings can be happier, and he’s on a mission to make 1 billion people happy. He sat down with me to share what he’s learned – that happiness is both a choice and our default setting, how to trick our brains out of survival mode, and why the happiest emotions we feel are rooted in the present, not the past or future.This…is A Bit of Optimism.To learn more about Mo and his work, check out:mogawdat.com)