Life

At the risk of creating a topic that is overly broad, this page attempts to outline the current best practices according to the latest scientific evidence, of how to live a life that maximizes happiness and well-being for you and everyone around you.
"The purpose of our lives is to be happy." -Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
This topic must naturally be broken down in order to be digested.
Best Practices for Life
These page will address a best practices approach to each of the key components of life, combining the latest science with a common point of view that helps derive the most meaning, happiness and well-being from each.
Since this effort will require the most subject matter expertise and provides more detail and less holistic reasoning, it will be the last part of the wiki to be completed.
- Owner's Manual for the Brain
- Spirituality
- Relationships
- Community
- Work
- Finance
- Music
- Art
- Food
- Love
- Sex
- Children
- Death
- Afterlife
Life Has More Than 12 Rules

Self-help grifters and wannabe gurus often try to distill their "wisdom" into some simple list of rules. A popular one, especially in the manosphere, is Jordan Peterson's 12 Rules for Life, but there have been thousands of similar "rules for life" books published since the invention of the printing press. Ben Franklin's list of 13 rules are less poetic, but much more ethically robust. Aristotle had a list of 11, which Franklin mostly copied, and was probably copied from Plato who copied Socrates. So the idea that Peterson or anyone else is going to improve on their lists is fairly absurd.
Here is a full list of humanist alternatives to the Ten Commandments that all bear some resemblance.
The metaculture wiki will avoid oversimplified pop-psychology in favor of creating a map of all of the important concepts you need to know to flourish as a modern adult. By relating them all to a holistic fractal pattern, you can self-author universal rules for life based on deep understanding and the latest science, instead of memorizing some huckster's plagiarized list. This gives us the ability to create dynamic, context-specific rules for life based on universal principles.
Cunk on Life
If there is a BBC show with more of a kindred spirit than Cunk on Life, please share it here so we can all see it. Watch on Netflix.
Life Reviewed
Life. Is it any good? Forrest MacNeil explores this question in this criminally underrated show.
Lust for Life
Perhaps Iggy Pop doesn't exemplify the best practices approach to life, but a lust for life should be encouraged.