Culture
The traditions and shared experiences valued by a group. For example, the holidays, pastimes, music and art that you enjoy.Norms
Shared expectations of behavior. This includes things like rules of politeness, courtesy and civility that you follow.Town & Country
The place that you live tends to impact your lifestyle. For example, living in a large cosmopolitan city versus a remote island with an excellent beach.Work
Your profession and working style. For example, an artist who works at home on their own time versus working on a strict schedule within a system of rules that is beyond your control.Transport
How you get around. For example, a long commute on a highway that is prone to traffic jams versus someone who can walk to work on a pleasant street.Consumption
Your behavior as a consumer. For example, a shopaholic versus a minimalist consumer.Wealth
Your approach to securing financial resources for the future. For example, living below your means to save and invest conservatively versus aggressive spending and/or risk taking.Peak Experiences
The habit of seeking experiences that you view as personally fulfilling in areas such as travel and adventure.Personal Reflection
The habit of taking time to explore thoughts and ideas.Escapism
Enjoying fictional realities such as reading, films, video games and theme parks.Religion & Spirituality
Participation in an organized religion and/or pursuit of spirituality.Information
Your patterns of information consumption such as your internet and reading habits. For example, a person who spends 6 hours a day reading fashion blogs can view this as a significant element of their lifestyle.Health
Your level of health and efforts to stay or become healthy.Fitness
Your level of physical fitness and activity level including participation in sports and recreation.Food
How you eat. For example, preparing healthy food at home and viewing meals as a social activity.Environment
Your experience of nature and your impact on it.Hobbies & Activities
Your pursuit of interests such as a hobby.Fashion
How you dress and view fashion.Social
Social fulfillment in areas such as friendship, community and family.Social Status
Your status within the community and other groups such as your family, work, profession and cultures. Social status is more than giving the appearance of wealth and can include things like physical appearance or the respect you get as a professional or family member. Lifestyle also includes your attitude towards social status such as the ability to transcend worrying what others think.Lifestyle Examples
The following are examples of specific lifestyles and lifestyle factors.Animal lovers | Artistic life |
Beauty enthusiasts | Bohemians – unconventional people |
Bookworms | Business life |
Career focused individuals | Community life |
Conformists and collectivists | Consumerists |
Country living and small town life | Creative life |
Cultured living – interested in cultural things such as aesthetics | Cultures – the lifestyle associated with a culture such as American Culture |
DIY enthusiasts | Empty nesters – parents of adult children who moved out |
Entrepreneurial life | Environmentalists |
Family focused individuals | Fashion cliques |
Film enthusiasts | Fitness life |
Followers | Food life such as diet |
Foodies | Gamers |
Geek culture | Gossip life – interested in information about people |
Hobby life | Home and gardening life |
Home workers | Homebodies |
Individualists | Intelligentsia |
Joiners – prefers time to be organized by others | Leisure life |
Married life | Maximalists |
Media consumers – consume much media | Media life such as influencers |
Middle class | Minimalists |
Morning people | Multigenerational households |
Music lovers and music scenes | Nature life |
Nighthawks – stay up late | Nightlife |
Nomads and digital nomads | Outdoor adventurers |
Parenting life | People person |
Political life such as activism | Pop culture fans |
Poverty | Professional life |
Progressive lifestyle – embraces constant change | Pursuit of epic experience |
Pursuit of self-improvement | Pursuit of self-indulgence |
Recreation life such as sailing | Relaxed attitude to time |
Relaxed attitude to work and responsibility | Religious life |
Retro life – pursues a lifestyle from the past | Self-care and wellness subcultures |
Simple living | Single life |
Social butterflies | Social isolation |
Social justice campaigners | Social life |
Spiritual life | Sporting life |
Sports fans | Status seekers |
Student life | Subculture pursuits such as cosplay |
Takes on roles and responsibilities | Technology life |
Time poor, money rich | Traditional lifestyle |
Travel life | Upper class |
Urban life | Virtue signalers – pursues social status with communication alone |
Volunteer life | Work hard, play hard |
Work life | Workaholics |
Working class | Working poor |
| Overview: Lifestyle | ||
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Definition | A way of life. | |
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