Chris Hadfield

They may try, but that's really up to you.

And so,

Don't say, well, six years from now, I'm going to enjoy myself.

Instead, try and find all the little joyful and beautiful and personal things that are happening in amongst your daily work that you can take pride in, that you can smile at, that you can revel in a little bit, that you can quietly celebrate to yourself as you're

you're herding this big intractable herd of sheep that is your life towards some upper pasture that you're dreaming about.

So yeah, have those goals, make strong daily, hourly, moment by moment decisions to move yourself that way and celebrate yourself as often as you can.

To me, that is a life well lived.

Well, I've always loved reading.

I love being able to probe deeply into the thoughts of a person that I've never met.

It's like a form of shared telepathy.

Someone has taken the time to, as eloquently as they can, to lay their thoughts and emotions down into script so that then I can pick them up whenever it's convenient for me and try and tap into that other human being.

And I love the power and the insight that I get from reading.

I also love to be entertained.

I like reading, not just like I'm reading Justinian's Flea now, which is a fascinating history of the end of the Roman Empire and one of the big plagues that came through Europe.

which is factual, but I'm really looking forward to the new Reacher, you know, Lee Child book, because they're so much fun to read.

I love being totally engrossed in a thought like that, or someone else's book.

And so when I set out to write, I initially wrote three nonfiction books, and they've all done great.

They're all, you know, bestsellers.

But I

I thought it would be a really fun challenge to try and share the wild difference of spaceflight experience and the life of an astronaut, because it's still one of the very rarest of all professions, how to share those ideas as richly and fulsomely and