Family Tragedy Leads Google Exec To Invent An Algorithm For Happiness

Everyone wants to be happy, and sometimes we forget how simple it might be to achieve it. Happiness, more than a positive state of mind is a lifestyle full of satisfaction and meaning.

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After losing his son, Google executive, Mo Gawdat, used his experience as an engineer to find a simple equation for true happiness. A formula that has helped him to accept his grief and try to make the world a little bit happier than it was when his son left it.

In his book, Solve For Happy, Mo reveals the algorithm that changed his life: Happiness is equal to or greater than the events of your life, minus your expectations of how life should be.

So, in case you are needing some encouraging words today or the formula to happiness, watch his powerful message below.

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