This is about the pursuit of happiness.

He wanted to be rich, and he wanted to be famous.

Actually, this is the first step in fashion.

Well, follow the money. Or, follow the phone bill.

And perhaps even more interesting from our point of view, another tension between novelty seeking behaviors and tradition or conservation.

He was in pursuit of the result.

I took to this like a duck to water.

I require additional supplies.

Make it real.

I was making all these scribble pictures.

It's what the conquistadors were after.

music plays

So we couldn't stop him there.

Is life that improbable?

lonely life, without peace.

The first was a search for perfect human justice.

Lookin' out for number one.

I'm on the plane and I'm just tearing my hair out.

And then we had the 1970's, the ME generation.

We don't have a problem talking about truth or beauty in that sense.

We have a space prize team.

I am in pursuit of points.

That does not hold for emotions.

It turns out the pursuit of pleasure has almost no contribution to life satisfaction.

We've got a gift!

So we ask and we've done this in 15 replications involving thousands of people to what extent does the pursuit of pleasure, the pursuit of positive emotion, the pleasant life, the pursuit of engagement, time stopping for you, and the pursuit of meaning contribute to life satisfaction?

Who are these people?

He was interested in only the pursuit of wealth.

Powered by fossil fuel derived energy.

I want to spend rest of the life pursuing my ideals.

You know what you are.

And we can implement these operations using ideas that we've already got.

It's made up of three parts.

How did he know to put the pursuit part in there?

TALES OF A WHALE VOYAGER TO THE ARCTlC OCEAN.

This is called Hooked on a Feeling

Is there any other use to exploration and science, other than just a sense of wonder?

We have eternity... to know your flesh...

The pursuit of meaning is the strongest.

I call it seeking joy, this pursuit of happiness.

If you want a great career, you have to pursue your passion, you have to pursue your dreams, you have to pursue the greatest fascination in your life, you hear it again and again, and then you decide not to do it.

Do you think they're there pursuing their self interest?

Our reputation represents desire for perfection of the highest quality.

But there are ways in which our evolutionary history can really trip us up.

AI dream, even though I'm personally, that's one of the things that I personally work on in my research life.