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Living well requires more than feeling satisfied or obeying rules. Drawing on Aristotle's concept of eudaimonia and Susan Wolf's account of meaningful engagement, this discussion explores how character, practical judgment, and worthy pursuits shape everyday life. A close look at virtue ethics shows why genuine well-being involves developing multi-track dispositions like honesty, balancing competing goods such as friendship and security, and engaging with things that possess real worth beyond personal pleasure. Key sources: • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Aristotle's Ethics, first published 2001-05-01, substantive revision 2026-08-11 — https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-ethics/ • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Virtue Ethics, first published 2003-07-18, substantive revision 2026-05-03 — https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-virtue/ • Susan Wolf, *Meaning in Life and Why It Matters* (Princeton UP, 2010), full text PDF — https://personal.lse.ac.uk/ROBERT49/teaching/ph103/pdf/WolfSusanne_2010_Meaning-in-Life-and-Why-It-Matters.pdf Episode 6250 — myweirdprompts.com/n/6250 (permanent short link: myweirdprompts.com/240410)