How Complete Human Flourishing is a Compass for Society
Mar 21, 2025
Over the past year, I’ve been working on a concept I’m calling Complete Human Flourishing. It’s a distillation of ideas, books, talks, visions of other intellectuals that I appreciate and admire. So that is to say, this isn’t necessarily My Idea, but rather a way to present a lot of big ideas as a fun measurable, and achievable goal.
The goal? Imagine a world where all 8 billion people on our planet are healthy, happy, safe, secure, and prosperous. A world where people are challenged creatively to invent, tell stories, and grow — not merely challenged to survive outdated systems.
As we usher in revolutionary new tools to support endeavors across industries, job functions, and life as we know it, I believe the time is now to set clear goals for where we’d like our technology to take us. If we’re crafting an intelligence capable of answering our deepest, hardest questions — whether about ourselves or others — it’s imperative to ground this intelligence in a cohesive vision, informed by metrics that evaluate life’s inevitable tradeoffs with clarity and purpose.
One of the core elements of CHF is that you can measure the entirety of a person’s life across multiple dimensions. For example, these ten (each of we can be broken down further):
Career Wellness: Engaging in work that provides personal satisfaction and aligns with one’s values, goals, and lifestyle.
Creative Wellness: Participating in diverse arts and cultural experiences that enhance understanding and appreciation of the world.
Digital Wellness: Balancing technology use with well-being, creating sustainable habits that align with personal values, community, and safety.
Emotional Wellness: Identifying, expressing, and managing a range of feelings while seeking support when needed.
Environmental Wellness: Recognizing the responsibility to preserve and improve the environment, understanding our interconnectedness with nature.
Financial Wellness: Being fully aware of financial health, budgeting, saving, and managing resources to achieve realistic goals.
Intellectual Wellness: Fostering critical thinking, moral reasoning, lifelong learning, and an expanded worldview.
Physical Wellness: Maintaining a healthy lifestyle through balanced nutrition, regular exercise, and preventive healthcare.
Social Wellness: Building a supportive network based on trust, respect, and mutual care.
Spiritual Wellness: Seeking harmony and purpose through self-reflection, dialogue, and connection to something greater.
The specific dimensions aren’t as important as ensuring the overall set feels holistic and aligned to each individual. What matters most is that they are measurable — especially to you and your unique goals.
While Complete Human Flourishing fits seamlessly within the work I’m doing with Vital, over the past few months, I’ve realized I had allowed Vital to become too entangled with my ego, subconsciously linking its success to my sense of security and safety. By reframing Vital as part of this broader vision, I’m working to release that tight grasp. My hope is to foster greater growth, not just for the company but for the people it serves.
At Vital, we aim to distill this vision into usable, enjoyable, and immensely helpful tools. Through meditation, coaching, and technology, we strive to empower purpose-driven individuals to reset, recenter, and refocus, ultimately climbing their own mountains of purpose.
We live in an extraordinary time — a moment when humanity’s understanding of itself is shifting profoundly. Achieving CHF isn’t just a dream; it’s a journey we can take together, starting now. I invite leaders, innovators, educators, and citizens to collaborate on creating systems and tools that accelerate us toward flourishing. Together, we can ensure every person on this planet is not merely surviving but thriving.
Next up for me is to further refine my thinking on this, including specific policies I think will help us accelerate our achievement of CHF, starting with laws and goals for the United States. If you find this topic interesting and would like to help me sharpen my thinking, please share any feedback or ideas you may have! Thank you!
Over the past year, I’ve been working on a concept I’m calling Complete Human Flourishing. It’s a distillation of ideas, books, talks, visions of other intellectuals that I appreciate and admire. So that is to say, this isn’t necessarily My Idea, but rather a way to present a lot of big ideas as a fun measurable, and achievable goal.
The goal? Imagine a world where all 8 billion people on our planet are healthy, happy, safe, secure, and prosperous. A world where people are challenged creatively to invent, tell stories, and grow — not merely challenged to survive outdated systems.
As we usher in revolutionary new tools to support endeavors across industries, job functions, and life as we know it, I believe the time is now to set clear goals for where we’d like our technology to take us. If we’re crafting an intelligence capable of answering our deepest, hardest questions — whether about ourselves or others — it’s imperative to ground this intelligence in a cohesive vision, informed by metrics that evaluate life’s inevitable tradeoffs with clarity and purpose.
One of the core elements of CHF is that you can measure the entirety of a person’s life across multiple dimensions. For example, these ten (each of we can be broken down further):
Career Wellness: Engaging in work that provides personal satisfaction and aligns with one’s values, goals, and lifestyle.
Creative Wellness: Participating in diverse arts and cultural experiences that enhance understanding and appreciation of the world.
Digital Wellness: Balancing technology use with well-being, creating sustainable habits that align with personal values, community, and safety.
Emotional Wellness: Identifying, expressing, and managing a range of feelings while seeking support when needed.
Environmental Wellness: Recognizing the responsibility to preserve and improve the environment, understanding our interconnectedness with nature.
Financial Wellness: Being fully aware of financial health, budgeting, saving, and managing resources to achieve realistic goals.
Intellectual Wellness: Fostering critical thinking, moral reasoning, lifelong learning, and an expanded worldview.
Physical Wellness: Maintaining a healthy lifestyle through balanced nutrition, regular exercise, and preventive healthcare.
Social Wellness: Building a supportive network based on trust, respect, and mutual care.
Spiritual Wellness: Seeking harmony and purpose through self-reflection, dialogue, and connection to something greater.
The specific dimensions aren’t as important as ensuring the overall set feels holistic and aligned to each individual. What matters most is that they are measurable — especially to you and your unique goals.
While Complete Human Flourishing fits seamlessly within the work I’m doing with Vital, over the past few months, I’ve realized I had allowed Vital to become too entangled with my ego, subconsciously linking its success to my sense of security and safety. By reframing Vital as part of this broader vision, I’m working to release that tight grasp. My hope is to foster greater growth, not just for the company but for the people it serves.
At Vital, we aim to distill this vision into usable, enjoyable, and immensely helpful tools. Through meditation, coaching, and technology, we strive to empower purpose-driven individuals to reset, recenter, and refocus, ultimately climbing their own mountains of purpose.
We live in an extraordinary time — a moment when humanity’s understanding of itself is shifting profoundly. Achieving CHF isn’t just a dream; it’s a journey we can take together, starting now. I invite leaders, innovators, educators, and citizens to collaborate on creating systems and tools that accelerate us toward flourishing. Together, we can ensure every person on this planet is not merely surviving but thriving.
Next up for me is to further refine my thinking on this, including specific policies I think will help us accelerate our achievement of CHF, starting with laws and goals for the United States. If you find this topic interesting and would like to help me sharpen my thinking, please share any feedback or ideas you may have! Thank you!