Moment 104 - Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Unusual Explanation For Life On Earth

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

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🗓️ 7 April 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

What is the meaning of life? Quite a hard question to answer isn’t it? This question has stumped history’s greatest thinkers, however in this moment one of the greatest intellects of our time, Neil deGrasse Tyson, has a theory. It’s too easy to pessimistically countdown your days left on earth and find yourself desperately running around and endlessly searching for a grand meaning to life,. Instead, Neil believes that it is actually right in front of us, as we can create our own meaning of life. For Neil that is his quest for knowledge and learning something new each and everyday, for yourself and other people it could be completely different. Whichever path you decide to take, Neil believes that as long as you help others along the way and follow your interests you will become wiser. Listen to the full episode here - ⁠ https://g2ul0.app.link/XMtuSSePMyb Neil: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/neildegrassetyson/?hl=en https://neildegrassetyson.com/ Watch the episodes on YouTube - ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDiaryOfACEO/videos

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0:00.0	How do you feel about happiness and meaning?
0:05.0	Where does that come from in your perspective?
0:09.0	What I have found is,
0:12.0	there's an urge people have
0:15.0	to search for meaning.
0:19.0	Is it under this rock, metaphorically?
0:23.0	Is it under a rock?
0:24.0	There's a meaning behind a tree.
0:28.0	If I join this group,
0:31.0	will I find meaning with them?
0:34.0	And I think,
0:35.0	okay, go ahead,
0:38.0	but what you're doing is
0:40.0	relegating meaning in your life to a search.
0:43.0	And suppose you don't find meaning.
0:46.0	That'd be a force of disappointment in your life.
0:49.0	You're setting yourself up to be disappointed
0:52.0	if you don't find meaning.
0:55.0	I have another idea.
0:58.0	I use this for myself.
1:00.0	May or may not work for others.
1:03.0	I recognize long ago
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