Virtue =/ Happiness

The bias in philosophy:

The end-game is to maximize your personal happiness (often hedonic happiness).

Then comes the notion of ‘eudaemonia’ (human flourishing) or it literally means in Greek: Good (eu) + Daemonia (your inner-spirit, soul).

What do you do once you’ve maxed out your happiness stats?

I have had many days where I have maxed out my happiness stats. I felt like a 12/10 in terms of the happiness scale. But once I hit it … it was kind of ‘whatever’. Which made me think:

Perhaps there is a more interesting and noble goal than base happiness.

Beyond happiness

Then this is my thought:

To continually self-develop yourself is the goal.

Not self “improvement” (self improvement assumes that there is something defunct with you). No; there is nothing wrong with you. You are already great. The goal then is to augment your (already existing) awesome to the max and beyond.

What types of self development?

It seems the best form of self development is a combination of almost everything. For me, I like this idea:

Augment your physical and physiological strength (powerlifting, muscle augmentation) to the max, be cut (less than 10% body fat, so you can see your 6-pack), and also augment your artistic, creative, and philosophical spirit to the max.

Then the goal?

Use your own life as an experiment to see how far you can thrive!

ERIC