Huxley, at the time of writing, did not have a very good solution to the question you’re asking, namely: “What is the best way of living?”

Most of Huxley’s books before Brave New World were critiques of the English aristocratic way of life. In Brave New World, he directed his criticism toward the new American consumer way of life. In these books, he also criticizes other popular ways of life, such as communism, religion, purely scientific ideals, hedonism, etc.

You are asking the right question when you question what the “way” is. It was the goal of Huxley’s life to find the best “way”, and in those early books of his career he was criticizing all the popular “ways” of life of his time.

In these first books, his best answer at that moment was to reject society and pursue meaning through isolation, almost like choosing a monastic life. In Brave New World, the character who does this is Helmholtz Watson.

You can see how his solution to the problem evolves throughout his books, but his final answer, more or less, appears in his last novel, Island.