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Brits like to brag about stress. ‘We carry it like a badge of honour,’ Mo Gawdat tells Metro. 

Surrounded by a calming backdrop of houseplants and fish tanks, the happiness expert said how he loves simple pastimes like meditation and gardening.

However, he wasn’t always this chilled.

Working as a Chief Business Officer at Google X, he appeared to have it all – a beautiful family and he was so rich he once bought two Rolls Royces just because he could.

But his 30-year career gave him stress-related headaches that would last weeks and his body ached all over.

And then every parents’ nightmare came true – his son Ali, 21, died due to a medical error in a routine operation. That sudden and preventable loss changed Mo’s life.

He said: ‘Ali truly was an angel. He made everything he touched better and everyone he met happier. You couldn’t miss his energy or how he …