Mo Gawdat: How Losing My Son Led Me To A Formula for Happiness

I don't know what to tell you, Jake. I have seen everything. I've seen everything. I've seen every pleasure, every joy, every pain, every suffering, every test. I've seen so much.

And so after a while you somehow look at all of it and you go, like, yeah, should I spend a minute of my life? chasing one more of these. And and the funny thing is when you stop chasing, everything falls in place. What if everything you've been told until this point in your life about happiness is wrong, and that it's not a destination, it's actually a default. Our guest today is Mo Gaudatz, an engineer by training, he rose to become chief business officer of Google X, the moonshot factory tasked with solving the world's

biggest problems. He sold millions of books, reached hundreds of millions of people, and by any conventional measure, this is a guy who's already won. But it was actually the worst moment of his life that changed everything for him. It was the death of his beloved son Ali, a preventable surgical mistake, and his twenty-one year old son was gone in just four hours. that trauma would be the catalyst for his life's real work.

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