"The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.<p>For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you." -- NdGT<p>Probably the best thing I've heard in a while. I love when he does these AMA's.
I think to myself "I'm spending too much time on Reddit looking at stupid stuff" so I come to HN for some highbrow articles and see a link to Reddit of Neil deGrasse Tyson doing an AMA :/ ...back to Reddit.
For those who are just interested in the questions that Dr. Tyson chose to answer (along with the answers, of course): <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/tabled/comments/qcyqa/" rel="nofollow">http://www.reddit.com/r/tabled/comments/qcyqa/</a>