I left Google actually in February and my personal moonshot is
a billion happy people I know it sounds crazy but one billion happy is not,
you know, an unlikely ambition in the modern world today.
Everything I've ever done at Google was in billions. I launched a book last year,
Solve for Happy, that became an international bestseller with an engineering approach
to happiness a hyper predictable approach, almost that turns happiness
into something similar to fitness, and it worked. It worked so well that 93% of
readers started to say this is working for me, and so I realized that maybe it's
this time of my career where I can have a much more profound impact on the world
by tackling the biggest problem that I think the modern world is facing today,
the problem of unhappiness with a radical approach to it which is an
engineering approach and use of all of the technology that we have today.
So tell me about that engineering approach because in your conversation with Martin,
I understand you've actually written a happiness equation, how does it work?
I wasn't always happy of course, I was, you know, like most people who have success
early in their careers, the more you get blessed in life, somehow you start to
become unhappier and it actually really puzzled me because the events of my life
were amazing in my late 20s and I was miserable.
I was almost clinically depressed, and so I took an engineering approach to it
I took literally as many data points as I can,
I think of moments in my life where I felt happy and I tried to plot that shot
to develop an equation that predicts happiness and unhappiness and the
equation is much simpler than you think, but it's much more profound than it
seems, you know, it basically says that your happiness is greater to --
equal to or greater than the difference between the events of your life and your
expectation of how life should behave. And so, no event in itself
can make you happy or unhappy, what makes you happy or unhappy is that comparison.
Think about it almost as a survival mechanism of your brain trying
to look at every single event and assess if this is good for you or bad for you.
You know, rain in itself wouldn't make you happy or unhappy. If you're a farmer
rain would make you happy, if you want to sun tan rain would make you unhappy, and
so with that I started to dig deeper and ask myself you know scientifically,
70% of the incessant thoughts we have in our brain are negative, the answer
to that equation is negative. 70% of the time I ask myself is that
even true, is that even possible? And the answer was found in the reality of how
we solve the equation, the approach we take to happiness in the modern world
and if you fix that, if you fix the way we think,
you would become happy much more often.
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