The goal of life is excellence

This is the insight that i have today. i heard this phrase in a french movie about women judges fighting corruption. But only today i united the threads that lead to this insight.

1. Happiness can be only achieved with trying for excellence in what you do. The japanese got it right. Sculture, Oracle, karate, painting, chess, poker you name it.

2. For the zoos gorillas, they are well fed with lots of toys. But they are bored to death due to lack of novelty. They have no excellence to rescue them. Whereas Dirac can hide in a room for ten years to get quantum field out, a go weiqi master hide in his room as well, kant also, the creater of GNU. Excellence keep making the thing toward perfection, is the cure for the novelty problem.

3. When you are engross in make something perfectly, you tend to think less about your enemies. There is a study when there is no outside threat, a group tend to fight among themselves for trivial matters. You wont be ensnare with too much trivial matters.

4. Getting enlightened, being perfectly calm, getting lots of money will not bring happiness.

5. Money will come by itself because the excellent you do is in demand.

6. Hard work is actually secondary compared to achieve excellence.

7. Achiving excellence is actually the driving force of evolution or god. When we are striving for excellence we are actually not going against the flow.

8. There are books about evolutionary mechnaics that describe this phenomena i forgot what is the title.

9. This book also describe this phenome: