How to Train Your Brain to be Happy with Mo Gawdat

Published: Dec. 18, 2020, 2 a.m.

Mo Gawdat wants to make the world a happier place. When faced with one of the most emotionally devastating life events imaginable, the former Chief Business Officer at Google founded the One Billion Happy movement to bring collective emotional liberation to the masses. **On today's Braincare Podcast, we hear how Mo's personal story lead to his life's work investigating powerful human emotions, and how acknowledging causality can free us of guilt, and why you should make happiness a priority.We talk about:\n\nWhy is happiness important?\n\nMo Gawdat's flow chart for mapping emotions\n\nThoughts on emotional embodiment\n\nThe physical ramifications of unhappiness\n\nHow much of our feelings are conditioned by external forces?\n\nWhy our brains are the keys to unhappiness