"learn from your swipes on instagram your brain does what you tell it to do you're the boss tell it ai is going to be a billion times smarter than humans i would take data points and measurements and t..."

"what he taught me so that i can share it with the world [Music] look out you know i've done this podcast for the last 12 months every week and there's one name which my guests the people that sit in f..."

"have just created these like personal revelations in my head where i genuinely feel that i have to go go and sit down in a room alone and think about them for the next couple of weeks genuinely life-c..."

"and um in a very unusual way i didn't judge either i think there is so much value to learn in each of them but they're almost exact opposites and and to be able to embrace both of them maybe has allow..."

"write for for you sadly i i hate to say this i write for me so i get inspired by a topic and then i build a structure literally like we write subroutines in software i write the entire you know flow c..."

"achieved everything they told me i was supposed to achieve and couldn't find happiness and so i ended up in a place where i started to research the topic uh just like i would anything else and i could..."

"you i would actually i publicly announced when i grow older i want to be like ali he was a very unusual being and and he uh he he spoke very little very very very little he was either laughing all the..."

"can you give a description nothing would make me happy and you can you can literally you know as i i interviewed ruby wax on my on my podcast on slo-mo and ruby was known for her sometimes you know de..."

"saturday morning when you know my my daughter ali my son was that little zen monk uh my daughter is life her life itself she truly is pure joy okay and she was you know it was a saturday morning she's..."

"there to write this book and to answer this question that has become so relevant and important to answer in your life and as you're on that journey and and consulting with ali ali passes yes no so ali..."

"point that i would walk into the homeland security office and the officers behind the counter would go like mr gates is back okay they know i'm the guy from microsoft i've been there last month i woul..."

"yeah i mean it's easy to understand how it feels even today seven years later losing a child is is just the hardest thing ever uh at least for me it's the hardest thing ever like if life had taken all..."

"i just can't tell you what happened since then i mean every part of the universe is just pushing for this mission to work you know from finding my agent at the time where he was actually not feeling g..."

"watched 87 million times okay more than double the highest uh and and the more the movement was starting the one billion happy movement was starting basically i think it was a very strong uh uh confir..."

"then be successful we can be engaged we can be lovable we can be you know supported and so on and so forth it's just remarkable in my mind that you can lose the most important thing to you as you've d..."

"got a call from the top of the ministry of health saying we heard what happened i'm so sorry mao would you mind if we perform an autopsy on ali's body to get to the top to the bottom of this so i look..."

"attack me my brain started to say you should have you know the one thought for the first few days was you should have driven him to another hospital you should have driven him until i said to my to my..."

"what i heard and at the time i was head of google i i understood billions i knew how to get the message to billions of people so what did i do i literally said out loud consider it done it's done okay..."

"number came from 10 million was the original target yeah 10 million happy was at the time it felt crazy that we were shooting for 10 million but again with things like channel four alone i think by we..."

"their own mission and then we will get completely forgotten okay because it's the only way for it to succeed is that it's not counting on you know one person or one face or one team because the team w..."

"all so books don't go to millions that's the truth of books okay the books allow me the opportunity to sit with you and spread this to your audience okay but but the mission is much bigger now so the ..."

"officer right basically a simple message to say take a little bit of time to slow down and reflect okay and it's not me talking it's the wisest people on the planet like i get blown away every time ok..."

"and go like yeah i need to learn the skill of managing annoying bosses okay and if that's the case then you're not going to be upset about it similarly anything else if you look at it then it's not ju..."

"actual design and so if you try to control it you're bound to be disappointed a lot of events are gonna miss your expectations okay and yes i'm not saying don't control anything at all but start to un..."

"finding happiness so six grand illusions the illusion of uh of thought the erosion or the illusion of self the illusion of uh knowledge the illusion of time control and fear okay now that's one side a..."

"a choice oh totally and that you you can choose to be happy and that if you're unhappy and really for many circumstances in our life day to day and work and love in relationships personal responsibili..."

"experiences so when i wrote when i wrote when i write books in general i write them i write them like software so i issue a beta version okay and i get 270 people i don't know why it's fascinating yea..."

"neuroplasticity basically tells you that if you just run a happiness kind of activity once a day every day your brain will be better at it and i mean please don't get me wrong but what do most of us d..."

"brain you just don't see it if you're constantly watching you know news media right you're literally building your muscles that are concerned and are you know critical and are worried about the world ..."

"as i go there's something in there which is clearly a theme and i think three topics we've touched on the passing of your son you know you talked there about covid um and other elements which is this ..."

"i am angry i need to do something about it i will give you three steps okay the beginner's level is ask yourself if what you're thinking is true your partner said something hurtful on friday your thou..."

"this this approach of is it true can i do something about it can i accept it and and commit i learned that in business okay so i've spent mo most of my my career i was managing managers and what do ma..."

"cycles on things that are not necessary so if you can do it at work do it at home do it in your life do it in your relationships it's really a very straightforward flow chart you talked about when you..."

"wonderful mri study where they put participants in mri machines give them word puzzles and the participant problem-solving areas of the brain would light up for as long as it takes to actually solve t..."

"is telling me i can refuse to obey what becky is telling me to do and i can tell becky to shut the f up do you understand that and i actually do it very often i'm like i'm working on something and bec..."

"okay so i promise you and i'm not bragging on average it takes me seven seconds from the time my brain suggests that something deserves my happiness to the time i either dismiss it because it's not tr..."

"for happy where i listed down the majority of human emotion emotions and plotted them across where they are anchored in time and across if they're positive or negative okay so you take an emotion like..."

"listening and stop engaging to and create something yeah to create space for that remember inception yeah yeah yeah the beginning of inception the question was what is the most uh deadly parasite or w..."

"easy it would be boring like hell and you would learn nothing at all okay life is supposed to have a few difficulties on the way but that but but some battles are much harder for you than they are for..."

"like come here and sit in that chair and all the things they've told me about and i thought i think you're probably right 0.1 so i i i ran an experiment so uh in in the in the chapter about control i ..."

"the people would not erase it easier said in hindsight i guess of course but then but then but then let's let's extrapolate if i would not erase 99.99 of the harsh events in my past why am i thinking ..."

"correct and and and most of the time yes when you look back in hindsight you start to recognize all of the benefits that came with the trauma and most of the time interestingly the way the physics of ..."

"the path of thinking that money and material possessions will be the thing that makes me fit in so i go off on the path to try and be this happy sexy millionaire of course 25 years old range rover spo..."

"hard to park so i i i think we need to differentiate between two sides one one is ambition and the other is expectation okay so have any ambition you want any ambition you want hopefully a good ambiti..."

"unhappiness don't don't get me wrong i wake up every morning and i go like what are we going to do today can we reach you know 100 000 people today is there a piece of content we can develop can we do..."

"okay and just measure look back in your life and find the actual moments that made you happy you know i i have a practice that i call the happy list and on the happy list i say write down as many answ..."

"people think and i was definitely one of those that the way to get have more in your life is to go and buy more but in fact it came to and this is one of the conclusive points in my book was that you ..."

"now that the government can give me you know health care and pension and so on then maybe my girlfriend shouldn't annoy me either where did you get that from okay show me their contract right and if a..."

"it i i've never really so i thought this idea of practicing gratitude was kind of some like fluffy airy fairy thing and then over the last i'd say three years when i really i reflected on the moments ..."

"of those can i buy you think about it and yet some of us waste an entire lifetime trying to get more armani suits why because because of the matrix whatever they're quite absolutely you know so you're..."

"gonna wear it a lot so if you don't like i wear ten of them it's not the same t-shirt yeah i have ten of them at any point in time you said that you said um if she's okay with that then in fact she's ..."

"and caused me pain when he left i mean it's not his choice but you know and i still love him he's not even part of this world and i love him there are no conditions for my love there is there are no c..."

"so look i'm lovable i'm well done moe right you've you've created something amazing you should be proud of yourself none of that matters all of that gets you of course romantic love is wonderful and y..."

"without conditions so the days when you're not at your best you're still gonna be loved romantic love let's take a pivot there then oh man before we started recording we talked a little bit about um t..."

"anyone needs to experience that once in their life do you know what question i'm going to ask you no um if if you both think you're the best people that have ever existed huh love and relationships ar..."

"love made me who i am okay and you can't kill that because you no longer want to sleep together do you understand this you can't you can't be that stupid to take all of those beautiful relationships a..."

"in love again and again and again six times until our path went literally opposite ways after rally where my my path went into okay i'm gonna write a book and tour the world and do more of what i do a..."

"a it's a book about the role of humanity in the age of the machines okay and it's split into two parts the first part is the scary part and if you and i dive into this i promise you you're gonna be sc..."

"question of awareness that people are preoccupied talking about kovid and what the prime minister decided and the next profitability uh quarter uh on our business and people are not talking about the ..."

"really straightforward the difference between them is what you and i and everyone listening not the developers not the government okay not the uh the regulators what you and i and everyone listening a..."

"optimistic okay and it's a great question to start with i believe eventually eventually we're going to end up in a utopia whichever way let me explain we humans have been able to create this in setup ..."

"you know we found a way to create a supply chain that can supply mo with a slice of watermelon right around the corner in you know in a supermarket because we're intelligent but we could not be intell..."

"abundance where a.i would see no reason to crush the fly you know how life is life will say more flies more uh you know antelope more tigers more poop more everything let's just you know let's have mo..."

"that the challenge is the journey from here to there do we want that journey to be smooth and straightforward and wonderful or do we want to hit bumps on the way and if we don't want to hit those bump..."

"building computers this is not the programmable technology of the pre you know turn of the century this is autonomous it is independent it is intelligent it evolves it procreates that's terrifying it ..."

"that doesn't know what procreates mean basically give creates more of itself i guess it replicates we we humans we take a nine month cycle if we find the the right person and we're you know we're in t..."

"is that it has agency okay and that agency is is is is available through robotics whether that's a humanoid work walking down the streets and there are many killing robots being created as we speak ok..."

"that one of the types of reels on instagram is people playing rock solos i'm a junkie for rock solos and so i clicked on the first one it was a very talented young woman holding a serious metal guitar..."

"filled with women playing rock music because instagram thought i didn't like the men i liked the women not that i didn't like the songs and i liked that song now if you think of that simply without kn..."

"okay and we're handing over that control entirely to the machines there's no employee at facebook that gets consulted uh should i show more more female guitars okay it's entirely in the hands of the m..."

"elon musk said that in his interview with joe rogan he said the threat of the machines is comparable to the threat of nuclear weapons and i have lobbied i have tried to tell the world not to go there ..."

"mommy and daddy are good beings the only problem with this podcast is that it has to come to an end at some point honestly honestly just absolutely mind blown and you know the really remarkable thing ..."

"there is just one more thing i wanted to ask you before we wrap um and we only started this last week the last guest that sat in the chair with you i said to them at the very end i said can you write ..."

"most i have failed for many many years to empower my feminine side it's my biggest failure ever still is my biggest weakness even though i've done so much better in the last five and a half years um i..."

"we're not showing our good sides we're not able to nourish life give care we're not able to and i had a i mean most of my my work is a very confusing marriage between sometimes what is physical and yo..."

"it's true and it's so true and you know what i was thinking that whole time my my girlfriend is in bali at the moment and she's been talking to me extensively about being more in touch with the femini..."