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I think, if you’re a Humanist, you’ll
probably believe that everyone’s going to

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have a different answer to the question what
makes a good life, because everybody leads

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a different life.

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Humans are all very different and they have
different tastes, different abilities, and

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so the right way of life for people depends
on their individual talents, circumstances

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and possibilities.

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A life well lived is one where you do find
happiness, in whichever form that is, where

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you are doing no harm or as little harm as
possible to other people and where you can

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live in families and societies that are cooperative
where you are trying your best to make other

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people’s lives good as well. That for me
is a really good life well lived.

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A life worth living is one where I’ve achieved
as much as I can with my abilities.

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Knowing that we only have one life, believing
that this is the one life that we have means

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that we want to make the best of it.

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For me it is in the service of making the
world a little bit better. Maybe my work will

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take a generation or two generations to have
any impact but for me that gets me up in the

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morning, that’s what I like to do.

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Connections with other people. I’m quite
fine on my own, I spend a lot of my working

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week on my own but whenever I’m with anybody
else, with a group of people or just my wife,

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you can feel your well-being increasing.

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It has to be informed, so I think you have
to be reasonably educated about what’s going

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on in the world, you have to care about the
world, the people in it, you have to be excited

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by it, you have to want to contribute, arts
or science, whatever is your thing but leave

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the place in a better situation than you found
it.