Reminding you about all the stuff you have to do, the thing your friend said to you this morning, the co-worker who’s going to beat you out for the promotion. Business Insider spoke with Mo Gawdat, chief business officer of Google X and author of " Solve for Happy," who talked about how to solve your unhappiness by using his "Happiness Equation".

But our bias that something we tried in the past won’t work fails to consider the other circumstances that may have lead to that particular outcome. And in the process - because you're engaged in action, and in thinking, and in analysis, and in problem-solving, you will not feel the unhappiness as a result. However, we can be consistently happy if we bring our expectations and perceptions of our lives into alignment. Being aligned to this level on your life and what you want will do wonders for you, I haven’t gotten to that place yet.There are points, however, where you can neither prove that something is true or that it is not true. Reduce distractions: Incorporate quiet times into your schedule, or spend time without access to your phone.

At this special event, bestselling author Mo Gawdat will share his guide to beating negative self-talk and retraining your brain.Generally, in the west, meeting start exactly on time, and a few minutes before the scheduled end time, people start to pack up. Whether you agree with this statement, or whether the idea sits a little uncomfortably with you, I think you are going to get a lot out of this uplifting conversation. For instance, if you’re in the middle of a workout, you’ll perceive time as passing slowly, while your friend at a party might perceive it as passing quicker. They’re doing it with passion, not just, you know, making sure that their managers don’t see them browsing the Internet.

Because the fears implemented by our safe model are wide-reaching, Gawdat argues that they negatively shape our expectations, causing us to expect harm at every turn. Have you ever had a time when you thought you had everything all figured out, but then something went horribly wrong?Again my summarization of all the logic and math is quite limited, Mo wraps all this up in a wonderful story regarding the design of an iPhone. If we wouldn’t believe the monkey typed the 56-character sentence by sheer chance, Gawdat concludes that it’d be exponentially more foolish to believe that the entire universe developed by sheer chance. They act like a tag that comes from past experience, but they remove the context from that specific event. I’m unusual in that I was brought up in Egypt and had an incredibly successful career from a very young age.