Neil deGrasse Tyson On: Happiness, Seeking Friction, Getting Your Mind Blown, and Why Casinos Hate Physicists
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Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Ten Percent Happier Podcast. I'm your host, Dan Harris. It is so easy. To get so caught up in the details and frustrations and resentments of daily life that uh you miss the big picture. Exact. Maybe you miss your whole life.
What I love, or one of the things I love about my guest today is that he is relentlessly focused on the big picture, the galactic picture and beyond. My guest is Neil DeGrasse Tyson, who's an astrophysicist and the Frederick P. Rose director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History. He's also the host of his own podcast, which is called Star Talk. He's Also the author of many, many books. His latest book is called Lost in Space, Five Thousand Facts. to navigate the universe. Neil DeBrass Dyson, welcome to the show. Welcome back to the show. Why is this only ten percent happier? Why not twenty percent? We're gonna haggle over math. That's how you're gonna metricize something in the title of your podcast.
I'm just thinking let's why stop at ten. You wanna know the story? Please. Okay. when I first got interested in mental health and things like that. I
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