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

This is about the pursuit of happiness.

Actually, this is the first step in fashion.

He was in pursuit of the result.

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

Make it real.

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

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

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

So we couldn't stop him there.

I took to this like a duck to water.

I require additional supplies.

That does not hold for emotions.

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

I am in pursuit of points.

I was making all these scribble pictures.

It's what the conquistadors were after.

lonely life, without peace.

The first was a search for perfect human justice.

Lookin' out for number one.

The entire framework of discussion, though conventional, is pretty misleading.

But I'm here, and I'm gonna give it my best shot.

We have a space prize team.

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?

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

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He was interested in only the pursuit of wealth.

Powered by fossil fuel derived energy.

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

In architecture, too, holes in the vaulting of Etienne Louis Boullée's huge Cenotaph for Isaac Newton simulate starlight and make humans ant sized.

People here are passionately engaged in trying to make the world a better place.

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

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

It's made up of three parts.

Is life that improbable?

(Laughter) Ah, but I still want a great career.

You shouldn't live merely in pursuit of your own happiness.

A lot of people say it like that.

He was worried about right and wrong.

We're pursuing all avenues.

The pursuit of meaning is the strongest.

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And give whatever we want to produce for the self centered reason of our nation.

It's about following your own dreams, uninvited, and then working with others to make those dreams come true.

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