E205: Neil deGrasse Tyson: DO THIS Every Morning To Find Happiness & Meaning In Your Life

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Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2022

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

For a lot of people black holes and string theory were topics that were filed in the mental box labelled ‘things I will never be able to get my head around”. However, all changed when Neil deGrasse Tyson began appearing on TV screens. Neil’s passion and energy for science is infectious and the reason why he is one of the world’s greatest science communicators. This fascination has lasted ever since childhood where he felt the universe reach out to him at the same planetarium he is now the director of. But while Neil was obsessed with the cosmos he was often brought back to earth, having to deal with racial prejudice and stereotyping as he followed his passion. In this conversation Neil discusses his quest in raising the global knowledge of space, the universe and the world’s beyond our own.

Topics:

Early context
Your parents direct influence
Your father being called the N word
How to decide what I want to do with my life
What are you concerned about with the human race
Social media polarisation
Do we matter
Where does happiness and meaning come from?
Whats required for a happy life for you?
The perfect way to tell stories
What do you struggle with
Mental health
The last guest’s question

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Transcript

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0:00.0	We just spent half hour talking about this and I hardly ever talk about it.
0:03.0	Why is that wrong?
0:04.0	I didn't say it was wrong.
0:05.0	That'll give a rat's ass.
0:06.0	Okay, I'm it.
0:07.0	Heal the grass, Tyson.
0:09.0	World renowned astrophysicist turned TV host.
0:11.0	He's a man with the answers to the toughest questions on the planet.
0:15.0	And of course best-selling author.
0:17.0	In the last 50 years, we've increased life expectancy, 20 years.
0:22.0	There will be a time where homo sapiens have achieved escape velocity from death.
0:26.0	That generation will never die unless you're hit by a bus.
0:29.0	That brings you the question, if you could live forever, wouldn't you?
0:34.0	How different the world would be?
0:36.0	One of the things that you almost concerned about in the direction of travel of the human race.
0:40.0	A lot of things.
0:42.0	So there's some delusional force operating on people's understanding of the world in which they live.
0:50.0	If you post an opinion on anything, it gets attacked.
0:54.0	Did you see what happened with Neil deGrasse Tyson?
0:56.0	He tweeted something that many people took great offense to.
0:59.0	Part of what it is to be a scientist is figure out all the ways you could bias yourself
1:04.0	and remove them as far as possible.
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