"most resilient parasite is not a bacteria it's not a virus it is a thought and it shapes everything he is an expert on the topic of happiness google made him the head of google x the return of i know ..."

"and this is the dire of a ceo i hope nobody's listening but if you are then please keep this to yourself [Music] the return of mo gowda oh man no pressure i mean i don't really know what to say so our..."

"it's an honor honestly thanks for asking i have to ask since we spoke what's changed in your life and how does your life look now ah ever changing uh interestingly i'm on you know in 2020 was my year ..."

"year of flow but i called it the year of joy inflow which is really interesting so so to me believe it or not as i worked through the years on empowering more of my feminine side and you know creativi..."

"packed everything up that i had in dubai put it in a tiny little storage space i've always been a minimalist anyway so it wasn't much and now i have no idea where i'm going from here completely inflow..."

"of home again so i think we need both right i think we need the balance i think the story that most of us don't realize is that every one of us wants an adventure and every one of us wants stability e..."

"two or three books at the same time when you're extreme in those things you tend to be quite a bit blinded if you want by the pace by the detail you're swamped into it and it does take uh um it does t..."

"which you know interestingly again the way we stack life is quite strange and so you you you we work really really really hard for the first 30 or 40 years of our lives and then we retire when we can'..."

"it's interestingly possible to uh spend 50 percent of your days uh in in monk-like activities which would be connection reflection uh you know some some stillness and silence some service uh to the wo..."

"but then leave my rest of the week free with one day that is negotiable between us okay and that basically is even better than 50 50. and so so in those two days i'm completely a modern day warrior co..."

"glass of water i want my mug i want my glass of water i want my streets i want my commute every day i want my job security and so on and so forth which is beautiful and by the way every single one of ..."

"london i can be in london let me be in london right let's see maybe at the end of that season nothing's going to happen you're going to go like oh it was just very good coffee and a conversation with ..."

"my view i i say life is a quest it's not a journey okay and the difference between a journey and a quest is when you're on a journey you've sort of plotted your path okay i'm gonna take that flight i'..."

"with having anything missing okay but we are a very complex being that is made up of so many emotions and so many reflections and so many traumas and so many stories and backgrounds and desires and we..."

"find what i want to do with my life and i i think that's wonderful if you're if you ask me that's definitely what everyone should do now with that contradiction it we became further and further apart ..."

"choose each one of those and embrace it and grow it and and and make it a a prominent live it as much as you can with that person and yeah if if one of them ends my feeling is that the rest should not..."

"most people get trained on how to use excel but they never really get trained on how to streamline the thoughts in their head okay and and that appeared to me to be a very interesting engineering prob..."

"them there are many more mistakes one i think the biggest of them was a conviction in my early years that my kids were a burden my family was a responsibility okay which does happen when they come to ..."

"and people do the weirdest things i i have a very very dear friend who is a brilliant engineer brilliant engineer who had that thought in his head uh he's now in his early 60s that if i tell my ideas ..."

"with contradict absolutely what does that say so i'm thinking about you know i i say that i want to be in a committed relationship but then i s what i do is work all the time and want to work all the ..."

"at the same time i want to tell myself openly that i'm heading from that place to that point of equilibrium could that could be by saying in the next seven years i'm not going to do anything about it ..."

"everything in life you you invest in your six-pack i invest in my little belly right why because for you the i the ability to prioritize the six-pack at your age with your current you know a lifestyle..."

"to be very specific everything exists but the probabilities of them happening if i'm the luckiest person on earth okay i would walk out of here and she's the first person i meet right but if you count..."

"that idea of one in a hundred thousand right the mathematics of that it is it's true when you see the mathematics doesn't mean that you have to act in a way that's not human but it just allows you to ..."

"right that's it changes the probability drastically actually that's so very very true that's very very true kind of goes back to what i was saying when i did your podcast about my hairdresser who was ..."

"relationship with and yeah of course there are not a million people in the city that are interested in tango but a hundred percent of the people that are in that class are so i guess you get what your..."

"eye-opening one of the chapters so i'm writing all of this in a book called finding love one of the most interesting chapters is all the models of love okay and it's so eye-opening today someone in my..."

"triangle what you feel is i want a child but your actions are you're dating people without talking about the topic okay and then what you're thinking is maybe if i if i tell them i want a child they w..."

"they wanted us to be then we'll change and that's when all the conflict and relationships happen is when absolutely this is not what you wanted at all yeah and you've attracted you're you attracted th..."

"actually looking for and i know it sounds really weird when you talk about those things in mathematics and probabilities and sets and subsets and so on but believe it or not it's entirely and i know p..."

"and and the game isn't a game of economics sadly the more supply there is the less the value of a product right so if if you simply said to yourself you know a um this camera is now going to be uh we'..."

"that this person is not interested in children for example if we take that example so what does that mean in real time say that i was single and i was looking right i'm someone you know who what i'm l..."

"for that one instant that money is mine and then once i get the iphone it's not mine anymore i now have the iphone right you basically assign that money that is never yours it's the banks until the mi..."

"to money which is i have basic needs i have basic needs and my basic needs are to be reasonably covered reasonably fed uh reasonably safe and so on and so forth and in in isla in the islamic culture w..."

"i think my story has been very very very big eye opener i had enough money i you know i had enough connections and enough influence and i you know failed to protect my child's life when it was time fo..."

"and i said um for me money is basically the fuel of my mission it enables me to i said i put on my my diary overseer live tour it cost me about 600 000 pounds to book these 10 venues to book the londo..."

"for the world that's by the way owning money not letting it own you right so what if i if i can get to the point where i make it and actually give it to one billion happy then that's amazing if i get ..."

"absolutely right and it's it's just an attempt it's just an attempt with you know whether that attempt uh uh steve is is is an attempt because of money or is it it's an attempt because you just spend ..."

"mean it's that that constant battle i find in my life where the the greatest service that i do to others is also woven in there with loads of like absolutely insecurity so even this podcast like i'm s..."

"the challenge is this some people are completely egocentric and not even aware yeah okay some people are struggling okay and some people are um you know doing the best they can understanding as i say ..."

"okay so you're you're very good one of the people i respect most about that idea of being you look at yourself and you say oh i am doing that because of that insecurity that happened when i was this t..."

"present myself to the world because others don't present themselves that way so i'm differentiating yeah it's i wish i didn't have to use that ego you may wish that you stood on stage and didn't feel ..."

"and that that one ingredient is actual observation okay observation is i look at this glass and i say this glass is uh 37 full okay that is an observation yeah you can we can debate in physics if it i..."

"go into so many different uh uh um inputs into your thoughts that would debate that fact that it is more empty than it is full okay you take that and you find you can find them in categories one of th..."

"girlfriend came in and said excuse my english she said take your hands off my man you be okay and you know i was like whoa she's one of the calmest people i know what happened here and what happened w..."

"life why because of the human nature which is around negativity bias humans are only paying attention most of the time to the negative side of life those all all of those outlets are constantly using ..."

"you were talking about all these types and categories of thoughts and all of these inputs one of the inputs is the mainstream media some of the inputs come from i guess our conditioning and experience..."

"you know crossing your arms i that's an observation my brain could take that observation and say he's bored he's protective he is angry with me we've been talking too much whatever okay i can translat..."

"not using the truth it's that kind of like requirement of having like a looseness of our beliefs as well isn't it that just the that old adage of strong strong beliefs but held loosely whatever it is ..."

"embedded within us again it's very simple it's that contradiction it's a very simple contradiction of something is not in balance i say that i want a rolls-royce but i actually go you know go to the r..."

"really well made i think i've worn this piece for almost a year it hasn't broken hasn't changed colour because it's really really good quality and it costs roughly 50 quid people will be surprised whe..."

"days of the switchboard okay and you know steve wants to call his mom so you ra you know crank your phone and the operator says uh you know hi how can i help you and you say can you please connect me ..."

"world is that we think that this brain is supposed to be there to make us successful yeah okay first of all it's not the primary function of the brain the primary primary function of the brain is to m..."

"that almost seems impossible to unwire and i think we all have that ourselves as well certain worrying in our brains where something happens and our reaction to that thing might be uh you know to cata..."

"you see that that is the truth that's the truth that your brain tries to deny you from seeing and interestingly you can train your brain so so basically what you can do is for every thought for every ..."

"it will take 21 days let's say for your brain to recognize i need different wiring and it will take maybe 20 one month for your brain to say and i don't need the old wiring anymore okay and the game h..."

"stories is matthew ricard when we spoke about him in the beginning matthew's brain looks different than the average human brain his insulin is much bigger in relative comparison his prefrontal cortex ..."

"and he's spending hours and days in reflection and meditation right because you're sitting alone all of those things are our habits and all of us have the chance to do it right so you you could be on ..."

"going to grow i think that's the whole point and we grow it with our actions and our thoughts repetitive actions thoughts and memories believe it or not one of the interesting things is if you take a ..."

"understand we've mixed up again a few definitions like i said we mix love and romance for example with mixed biology with gender identity with sexual preferences with the reality of what the feminine ..."

"about us as individuals is we've decided that some of those properties or qualities are more valuable to our world than others okay if if you live in a capitalist world and the capitalist world is ent..."

"so interesting it's particularly tricky to understand for men of course because men i mean there'll be a lot of men again you know listening to this podcast now that hear the idea that they need to em..."

"intelligent i was in my left brain doing all of the analysis thinking i'm a smart person but i was doing all of the analysis with all of the wrong inputs the feminine gives you the inputs the feminine..."

"how does one tap into their feminine side because i think it's important to also say because these words have been associated with genders for so long but a woman or someone that's trans can also be t..."

"always feel incomplete now you've written what is another legendary book on a very related but incredibly foundational topic which is our thoughts and that little voice in our heads and um i think if ..."

"it's quite interesting how we ignore that and so maybe maybe thoughts are the most important thing and what this book does is it helps us to adjust the code that runs our brains at the last line in yo..."

"him leaving us and um and i uh it's interesting that i told i may have told you this once before that i write the last sentence of every book before i write the rest of the book yeah and i i have to s..."

"the work he's done through you is truly magical through you is the exact right word it's funny when when we spoke about the idea of control being a masculine quality only when i let go only when i let..."

"okay question is ooh that's not encouraging steve oh so i really like this question it's very fitting i think the previous guest wrote for you what is the greatest wealth in your life what was not the..."