I get a ton of joy from simple mundane activities: making my morning coffee (grinding fresh beans by hand with hario grinder), the joy of grocery shopping (also shooting street photography inside the grocery store), the joy of listening to music, lifting weights, and massaging Cindy at night before sleeping.
Barbell between extremely exciting and extremely mundane?
If maximizing our joy in life is the goal, perhaps we need an extreme contrast between the more uncommon things that we do, and the very mundane and everyday. I like exciting and uncomfortable things like traveling, unusual experiences, etc. I don’t want a life with only mundane and simple joys.
Is the point of life to maximize joy?
I don’t think so. Joy is a byproduct of meaningful activity. So perhaps the goal is to maximize doing meaningful activity