Chris Hadfield

And some of the southern ministers made it the central theme of a whole series of lectures that they gave.

But.

I'm trying to take the purposes of an astronaut's guide to life on Earth and make it accessible to people who are at a really pivotal stage of life, which is around 10 or 12, maybe, where you're becoming aware of the world, but you still hardly know anything beyond the little details.

community that you've grown up in and what are some of the big ideas but i'm i'm just in the writing process right now i've decided what is the most effective way to do that do i write it in the in the style that i did astronaut's guide or do i make it like an illustrated young person's version of that or do i challenge myself with the task of trying to write it as an adventure or as an

you know, Le Petit Prince by Saint Antoine de l'Exupéry or whatever, an engrossing story that appeals to a human being at that age of development.

But that also has within it all of the ideas that might help them make better choices in their life.

And just a quick aside, I have a 10-year-old granddaughter.

She lives in China.

But every day, with a 12-hour time difference, we read Anne of Green Gables together.

Because at 10 years old, that's such a beautiful book of ideas and behaviors.

And so I make time when she's just getting up for school.

She gets up early to read with her grandpa.

Or if my schedule is busy, she'll do it after she's done her homework at night.

But how to write useful ideas in the language of a young adolescent is

And so to answer the question specifically, yeah, I'm rethinking the ideas that are in An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth to try and frame them as clearly and as usefully as I can for the people that I hope will read it.

Both.

I mean, everything makes me feel hopeful and gives me pause.

And that's how life goes, right?

And it's hard to keep things together at a personal level, at a family level, at a business level, and at a species level.

What gives me great optimism is the incredible, relentless, unstoppable human ability to imagine and create new things.