
Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

Discovering the majority of the matter that makes up our universe after decades of confusing it for a vacuum should force us to ponder what else we can’t observe even though it exists.
Mo Gawdat • Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy
Absence of a proof that something exists does not prove that it doesn’t.
Mo Gawdat • Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy
Absence of a proof that something does not exist should be seen as a probability that it does.
Mo Gawdat • Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy
There’s no scientific way to prove that something does not exist!
Mo Gawdat • Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy
If we don’t know what we’re solving for, then whatever answer we may find will be irrelevant.
Mo Gawdat • Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy
From a scientific method viewpoint, it’s not possible to prove a negative.
Mo Gawdat • Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy
Try reframing ambition so the focus is on the goal of becoming a better person regardless of how you compare to others.
Mo Gawdat • Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy
When unobserved by life, the physical world ceases to exist!
Mo Gawdat • Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy
If we really attend to death, listen to it, and talk about it, instead of trying as hard as possible to pretend it doesn’t exist, it can teach us three lessons—not how to die but how to live a worthy and fulfilling life.