Learn English Neil deGrasse Tyson explains The Meaning Of Life with Big Subtitles
okay so wait you have to tell everyone
there cuz I can’t if I repeat it if you
think I’m lying
those fractions yes
okay if you’re asking those questions
now you’ll be the deepest thinking adult
there never was so so what is the
meaning of life
I think people ask that question on the
assumption that meaning is something you
can look for and then I found it here’s
the meaning here’s what it is
I’ve been looking for it okay and it
doesn’t consider the possibility that
maybe meaning in life is something that
you create you manufactured for yourself
and for others and so when I think of
meaning in life
I asked have I learned something today
that I didn’t know yesterday bringing me
a little closer to knowing all that can
be known in the universe just a little
closer however far away all the
knowledge six I’m a little closer if I
end of the day and I don’t know a little
more that day than the day before I
think I wasted that day so the people
who at the end of the school year say
the summer I don’t have to think anymore
I’m thinking
what the to learn is to become closer to
nature and to learn how things work
gives you power to influence events
gives you power to help people who may
need it power to help yourselves to
shape a trajectory so when I think of
what is the meaning of life to me that’s
not an eternal unanswerable question to
me that is in our Lee’s reach of me
everyday and so for you at age six and
three-quarters may I suggest that for
you you should explore nature as much as
you possibly can and occasionally that
means get in your clothes dirty because
you might want to jump into puddles and
your parents don’t want you to do that
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so I’m gonna give you more permission
for more things you ready have you ever
pulled all the pots and pans out of the
cabinet before and hit them with the
wooden spoon have you done that yet
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have you done that he said in a way then
what was it
what did your parents say when you did
when you did that well you did it with
paper plates that’s not nearly as fun
okay so you have my permission to pull
pots and pans out of the cabinets and
bang on them with spoons and knives and
things you’re still a kid and part of
being a kid is exploring the world
around you and while all the way the
laws of nature influence that world so
take different pots of ants and hit them
with a spoon it’ll all sound different
they’ll sound different with different
spoons some pans are aluminum summer
steel summer copper they’ll sound
different and that’s kind of a fun
experiment and most parents will say
don’t do that you’re getting them dirty
stop doing that you’re making too much
noise you tell them that why did you
have me in the first place
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they didn’t have kids so that they could
keep having a neat house okay
because kids make things messy and
there’s a reason why they make things
messy because they’re exploring the
world around them and so you have my
permission right okay so your meaning of
life will be enhanced if you give it as
much freedom as you can to explore the
world then when you get older you will
become so close to how the world works
that when a problem arises that needs a
solution you will say I know how to
solve that I’ve been thinking about that
before and I’ve been thinking about that
ever since I was banging the pans on the
kitchen floor
but ever since I jumped it with two feet
into a puddle or ever since I walked up
and down to snowflakes in my mouth did
you do that today when it snowed it was
the last time you cooked snowflakes in
you remember that same question okay
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you see the problem here okay
the products have forgotten how to
embrace nature how to think about the
natural world so you will owe it to
yourself and everyone else who will be
cured by some medicine you may invent
one day you owe it to yourself and to
everyone else to continue to stay
curious and by doing so you will have
created the meaning in life that others
think is waiting under a rock for them
one day and you would have made it
happen so thanks for your question
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