
Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

I am, therefore I think.
Mo Gawdat • Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy
Set out every morning with your brain primed to be open to something new.
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.
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
being is the only state in which you’re fully aware.
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
Confucius said: “Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.”
Mo Gawdat • Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy
You don’t need to do anything to be aware. Your default status is awareness. To reach it you need to stop doing!
Mo Gawdat • Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy
When we’re focused on the past or the future, we’re living in our thoughts, and not in reality.