Solve for Happy Quotes

“Anything you ever observed isn’t you, and everything that has ever changed in your constant presence isn’t you either. If”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“You are not your thoughts and not your body.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Choose the one thing it can process at a time to be something other than thought. Flood it with signals from the physical world so it stops living in its own little bubble. Each filter you remove gives your brain something to process and reduces its ability to engage in useless thoughts. This”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Flood it with signals from the physical world so it stops living in its own little bubble. Each filter you remove gives your brain something to process and reduces its ability to engage in useless thoughts. This”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“My recommended technique to shut up that quacking duck is to flood it with things that it can’t think about, evaluate, or judge—things it can only observe.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“you tell your brain what to do, not the other way around. Just as you are now instructing your brain to focus on the words on this page, you can always tell it what to focus on. You just need to take charge and act like the boss.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Thought engages to add an extra layer of protection when the brain plans ahead to keep you away from possible danger.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“If there is one thing that will change your life forever, it is recognizing that the voice talking to you is not you! Think”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“grand Illusions submerge us in confusion and hinder our ability to make sense of the world. Life becomes a struggle. Most attempts to solve the Happiness Equation fail because we use illusions as inputs, unable to see the world for what it is, and we wonder why life has to be so cruel. When”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“It all begins when you accept the thought passing through your head as absolute truth. The longer you hold on to this thought, the more you prolong the pain. The”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“change”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“all”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“If events remain as they are, but changing the way we think about them changes our experience of them, could we become happy simply by changing our thoughts? Of course! This is what happens all the time already. When”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Ironic”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“behaves”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Doing”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“achieved”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“where”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“unhappiness. It”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“And yet—and I expect I’m not the first person you’ve heard tell this tale—the “mo’ money” I made, the more miserable I became. Which led me to simply work harder and buy more toys on the misguided assumption that, sooner or later, all this effort was going to pay off and I’d find the pot of gold—happiness—thought to lie at the end of the high-achievement rainbow. I’d become a hamster on what psychologists call the “hedonic treadmill.” The more you get, the more you want. The more you strive, the more reasons you discover for striving. One”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy