Solve for Happy Quotes

“the benefits of a dictatorship: Why are you guys so anti-dictators? Imagine if America was a dictatorship. You could let one percent of the people have all the nation’s wealth. You could help your rich friends get richer by cutting their taxes and bailing them out when they gamble and lose. You could ignore the needs of the poor for health care and education. Your media would appear free, but would secretly be controlled by one person and his family. You could wiretap phones. You could torture foreign prisoners. You could have rigged elections. You could lie about why you go to war. You could fill your prisons with one particular racial group and no one would complain. You could use the media to scare the people into supporting policies that are against their interests.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“When nothing is certain - and nothing ever is - choose to be happy.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Emotions make us human, but when we”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Compare our modern lifestyle with the past and you’ll understand why life has become so stressful. Although harsher, life then was much simpler; that’s because the emotions of our ancestors were more in harmony with the norms of the animal kingdom.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Anything that inhibits our ability to be in touch with the truth also inhibits our ability to solve for happy. When we label, we collapse the diverse possibilities of how events actually are into an approximation at best—a snap judgment that might not reflect the truth.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“We view memories as archives of past events—of what has actually happened. But in reality, memories are nothing more than descriptions of what we think happened. And because what we think is always distorted by our brain’s blind spots, it’s often not true.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“what you suffer when you stay in fear is almost always more damaging than facing your fear.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Life isn’t even a participant—the game is yours. We’re each handed a set of cards—some good, and some not so good. Keep focused on the bad ones, and you’ll be stuck blaming the game. Use the good ones, and things become better: your hand changes and you move forward.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“From time to time we may all face a hardship that is inescapable. If there’s nothing you can do to change your current circumstance, then cancel the surrounding environment out of your Happiness Equation and solve the equation by using the rest of your life. When”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“This very human set of survival skills is partly why we’re still here while so many other species are not. We’re able to take control—or at least believe that we’re in control—while the best other beings can do is to react appropriately when the trouble starts. Since”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Every time you examine your thoughts you’ll notice that whatever you’re upset about is rooted in a past you cannot change or a future that may turn out to be completely different from what you expect. You may as well let the past or the future go and do your best at whatever you’re doing now.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Brain time, however, tends to get caught up in thoughts about the past and the future. It gets lost in endless—and unlikely—scenarios of how an event in the future might turn out. Brain time obsesses over past events that didn’t turn out the way you hoped they would. Thoughts in brain time tend to jump from one to the next. They don’t lead to a specific action, and like dreams, they’re formless.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Unfortunately for happiness, your brain is sold on the idea that the next moment is more important than the one we’re in. On the other hand, the moment that already passed by is more familiar—and therefore perhaps more comfortable—than this one right now. These biases of the brain are what move us all too easily into a state of confusion, ruminating on the past or bracing for an imagined future while neglecting to pause and live in the present, even though the present is all there really is. When we’re focused on the past or the future, we’re living in our thoughts, and not in reality. The”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Happy emotions are mostly anchored in the present. Now”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“the more you know about time, the more you’ll appreciate that in reality it’s nothing like we think it is. Time as we generally accept it is an immersive illusion that has very little to do with what it really is or how it behaves. The time we think we know doesn’t exist (as you saw in the capsule experiment). Nothing about the way we individually experience time is absolute.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“in space-time, past, present, and future are all part of an integrated four-dimensional structure in which all of space and all of time exist perpetually. Imagine”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“you had been in that capsule long enough, you’d eventually have felt hungry, thirsty, and tired. But those are markers of biological time. You still wouldn’t have known exactly how much time had elapsed according to the clock, because mechanical time is purely a human construct. Ancient”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Every moment of your life is neither all good nor all bad. When you clear your thoughts and see beyond the Illusion of Knowledge, you will realize that what Shakespeare wisely said is true: “Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Entertain the idea that what you’ve spent your entire life learning may not be entirely true. Knowledge is in no way a prerequisite to happiness. Your default state before you had any knowledge was happiness. As a matter of fact, false knowledge is the underlying reason for most unhappiness.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“I realized that I knew very little compared with all that is out there to know. I knew so little, in fact, that it felt as if I knew nothing at all. Luckily, my eagerness to learn overpowered my ego’s desire to be right. This revelation gave me a deep sense of joy as I relinquished the endless struggle to defend my view and just enjoyed the journey of endless learning.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Through it all, we humans continue to assume that we possess the ultimate knowledge. We behave as if we, the smartest beings on the planet, know it all. We reject any possibility that something could be missing, let alone wrong. The”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Shockingly, the accuracy of most knowledge—even scientific knowledge—suffers because we ignore unknown unknowns.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Knowledge is the fuel of civilization. But at the same time, our conviction that we truly know causes us to suffer. It’s the ultimate ignorance.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Everything is both good and bad. Or perhaps everything is neither. Even at the individual level, with the passage of time nothing is all bad. How often did something in your own life start out as bad but turn out to be good?”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Your movie is just one of many entangled movies. Billions, in fact! You live in a complex web of connections. Every single day, every step you take and every move you make impacts—even if in small ways—the life of everyone around you and perhaps occasionally the life of everything on this planet. This happens while every step any of them takes might affect you.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“If you’re the supporting actor in thousands of movies but the star of only one, how much of a superstar does that make you? Have”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“You’ll never please everyone. Find those who like the real you and invite them closer. All others don’t matter to you. Ali”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Trying constantly to get approval for your chosen image is a losing battle because the real you isn’t what the ego pretends to be. This makes us unhappy since we’re always searching for the next thing to make the image complete in the hope that people will believe that’s who we are.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“The egoless child is still calmly sitting inside each of us. Buried in layers over layers of lies, egos, and personas. Happy nonetheless. Waiting to be found. Let”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“What happened to the joyful, calm infant who simply enjoyed the moment with whatever it had to offer? Gone. Swamped by the constant urge to define an ever-evolving identity. Things”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy