How should you live your life? A thought:

Focusing our lives on our artistic and intellectual output/growth.

Beyond hedonism (pleasure seeking)

I like pleasure and of course hedonistic things feel good. But to me, living a hedonistic life seems too basic. Surely there must a more fun, interesting, and enjoyable way to live life.

My basic notion is this:

Optimize your life to focus on your intellectual/artistic growth, development, and output.

In short, optimize your life to maximize your growth as an “artist-philosopher”.