<p>Let's be honest here: Once you've achieved all your goals (or have time that can't use to fulfill your goals), do you plan on helping others or on pursuing your own hedonism/self-interest?</p>
<p>Help others: 0
Pursue hedonism/self-interest: 1</p>
<p>I'd probably pursue hedonism/self-interest. But with a major caveat, since I know full well that happiness asymptotes quickly with time (and money) spent on hedonistic pursuits, and also that there is a point where helping others can help you more than simply pursuing your own self-interest (giving them things that are worth more to them than they are to you, etc. )</p>
<p>Why do you need to wait to fulfill all your goals in order to help others?</p>
<p>I run a non-profit basketball league and do plenty of volunteer work, and I am not even close to accomplishing all my goals (I’m not sure that one ever really is…)</p>
<p>My goal is to help others, and I’m helping others for the fun of it, because fun is a self-interest of mine.</p>
<p>Life is not a list of goals to be completed. And if it were, helping people would be one of my goals. To me, your question seems to indicate that we all reach a point where we have beat life like it is some sort of game…</p>
<p>Whenever I achieve a goal, I become an emotional wreck as I am now because I think about other things I could have done better in the past to achieve another goal.</p>
<p>Not sure what kinds of goals you guys are talking about, but I’ll use college applications as an example. I’m swamped with them, but yet I have helped so many of my friends with the applying and whatnot. I enjoy helping people, so =P</p>