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RE: HOW I LOST 7 YEARS BY ASKING MYSELF THE WRONG QUESTION - LESSONS FOR MY POSTERITY
Interesting post. I think that we need to find ourselves what "the good life" means or even what "the good person" means. What society considers a "good (bad) life" or "good (bad) person" does not necessarily mean that it is sustainable, healthy or logical. We have to find it out ourselves by constant questioning of ourselves and everything around us. We have to stay true to our own integrity and express ourselves without trying to mold into social expectations of what "good life" or "good person" should be.
I personally like to draw from the experience of my culture over thousands of years to help me navigate the big question of the Good Life. There is wisdom there since, as far as I know for me, seems to be pretty bang on.
Be productive, love your neighbor, build a family you can be proud of, choose your partner carefully, avoid bad company, etc.
These are very sustainable values. Different cultures can certainly teach us many sustainable values but they also can teach us a lot of primitive behaviour. In our culture (it just slightly varies globally-geopolitically) it seems that everything is the other way around - opposite of sustainable. One example (and probably the most important one) is that this culture's values system is built around perpetuation and maximization of profit and acquisition of wealth as priority over social and environmental well being. Values are fluctuating within cultures just like notions of beauty.
https://steemit.com/life/@logic/the-ever-changing-faces-of-beauty (old post)
I think that is why we need to find a point of reference in finding out what values are sustainable and what aren't. I myself use science as point of reference, especially current discoveries in science of human behavior (human behavioral evolution and biology, how human behavour is shaped by biological, psychological and social factors etc).