Eudaimonia

Like you'll forget that word.

Like what is the word that I remember from 2023? Eudaimonia.

Eudaimonia.

That's actually the only word.

Have you ever heard that, Molly? Have you ever heard that

word? No.

What is that one? Eudaimonia.

Hold on.

Uh, your third value was?

Eudaimonia.

Eudaimonia is, uh, almost the universal value.

65% of people have it as a top value, and it's a desire for, um, self-care, personal flourishing.

Uh, I mean, I hear this in your surfing.

You kinda know what you want, but then boom, the Values Bridge tells you, "Whoa, my number one value is blank." What is your number one value, by the way, Bri?

Joy.

Eudaimonia.

The Greek word that he uses, eudaimonia, is somewhat mistranslated as happiness.

Human flourishing is probably closer to the mark.

Eudaimonia is an activity, not a passive state.

It's an active exercise in your distinctively human capacities, chiefly your reason and your virtues, your practical wisdom, your genuine sense of friendship and belonging, that's in a sustained effort to become excellent at all of those things.

A person living eudaemonically is not necessarily smiling at every moment.

What happens when your work isn't an alienated corporate job, but is actually an authentic expression of your own consciousness?

So Touche identifies this as eudaimonic continuance.

Eudaimonic continuance.

What does that mean in the context of an artist?

Well, eudaimonia is an ancient Greek concept most heavily associated with Aristotle, often translated as human flourishing or realizing one's true potential.

It's where we get the word demon.

Eudaimonia is Aristotle's term.

And Aristotle spends a ton of time on eudaimonia as the function, the proper target, the final end.

of a human being, everything has a final end.

It's already trying to shame you into stopping, and then you get all these external voices adding to that.

And I was asked to present at a conference called Eudaimonia.

Have any of you guys ever heard of it? It's, uh, [chuckles] it's sort of the gathering apex of all these health and wellness people.

And, uh, and I presented on IFS to help.

And you finished that work, whatever that is, and the, that sense of accomplishment, I, uh...

Eudaimonia, Aristotle would call it.

That deep satisfaction, often gained through hard work, blood, sweat, tears, sleepless nights, building that thing, and the joy that comes from that.

It's just a, a completely different order than eating the perfect cheese enchilada.

Can't be higher.

And number four is, um, eudaimonie or eudaimonia.

Yeah, eudaimonia, personal flourishing and joy and balance and self-care.

Mm.

So look, that one's kinda being fulfilled by the working from home and the ability to come and go as you please, and it might be your eudaimonia that has kept you in this job, okay? So-

It has, yeah.

Okay, what is five? Did you see that?

Yeah