Human Flourishing
To me, these are the central questions:
- How can I be be happy?
- How can I achieve loving relationships with friends, family, and romantic partners?
- How can I achieve a healthy body and mind?
- How can I find equanimity in death and loss?
I do not have answers to the above. But in my search I've tried to answer more concrete questions, such as:
- How do I find something I'm passionate about? A life mission?
- How can I have enough energy to meet each day's challenges head-on, without crashing?
- How can I experience more positive emotion day to day?
- How can I find the motivation to do hard things?
- How can I achieve high self-esteem? Love myself?
- How can I cope with death, loss and sadness?
- How can I meet awesome people?
- How can I be a better friend, family member, romantic partner, community member?
- What are the merits of helping other people?
- How can I be more productive?
- How do I kick bad habits?
- How important is exercise, diet, sleep?
- How important is money?
I try my best to make progress on these questions every day, but it's very hard, and progress doesn't follow a straight line, but loops and dips and bends wildly.
Nevertheless, the pursuit is worthwhile.
I will make an effort to write about these topics, mostly for my own reference. But I also hope you find it useful.