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Apr 2019
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S4, Ep4 How to Fail: Mo Gawdat

Elizabeth Day and Sony Music Entertainment
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Just occasionally in life, you meet someone who changes your way of thinking about the world. The shift might be subtle or it might be seismic, but afterwards, you are never quite the same again.This is what happened to me when my path crossed with that of Mo Gawdat who spoke to me about what it is to live a contented life in a way that had an immediate and ... Show More
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