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.

Make it real.

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

He was in pursuit of the result.

I took to this like a duck to water.

I require additional supplies.

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

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.

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

We have a space prize team.

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

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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So we couldn't stop him there.

He was interested in only the pursuit of wealth.

Powered by fossil fuel derived energy.

That does not hold for emotions.

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

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

It's made up of three parts.

He was worried about right and wrong.

We're pursuing all avenues.

The pursuit of meaning is the strongest.

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

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

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

You know what you are.

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

No matter how hard they push.

Keep it real. You can do it.

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.

In my life, when I tried to achieve things

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

First reason is that no matter how many times people tell you,

You know, Mark, this is just anecdotal.

Can it teach us a lesson about why the individual should not put herself before the group?