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What's your lifelong goal?
« on: December 08, 2014, 03:33:59 PM »
I'm not talking about FIRE, or raising a family, or traveling the world or becoming good at something. What's your lifelong goal, really?

Basically, what's the meaning of life for you?

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« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2014, 03:43:50 PM »
Definitely haven't figured it out but because many philosophers haven't either I have reached the conclusion that there isn't one ultimately perfect or right thing that I should be aiming for. The only thing that has resonated well with me is to try to do something good for others by which I mean every single creature.

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« Reply #2 on: December 08, 2014, 03:49:26 PM »
Basically, what's the meaning of life for you?

Reduce entropy.
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Re: What's your lifelong goal?
« Reply #3 on: December 08, 2014, 03:51:27 PM »
Basically, what's the meaning of life for you?

Reduce entropy.

Being a doomed goal, that's kinda depressing.

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Re: What's your lifelong goal?
« Reply #4 on: December 08, 2014, 04:10:56 PM »
Basically, what's the meaning of life for you?

Reduce entropy.

Being a doomed goal, that's kinda depressing.

Reduce entropy on a local level.
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Re: What's your lifelong goal?
« Reply #5 on: December 08, 2014, 04:38:22 PM »
Basically, what's the meaning of life for you?

Reduce entropy.

Being a doomed goal, that's kinda depressing.

Reduce entropy on a local level.

Ha! Even that is a pretty depressing goal. :P

I started this thread because my current goal is similar to below:

Definitely haven't figured it out but because many philosophers haven't either I have reached the conclusion that there isn't one ultimately perfect or right thing that I should be aiming for. The only thing that has resonated well with me is to try to do something good for others by which I mean every single creature.

However, I'm not sure if that's a sufficiently satisfactory answer. I'm always curious if older people have found a better answer to this question than younger people, or if they're just still going through the motions without meaning. I know as a young person it doesn't really concern me that I don't have a terrific answer yet (I still have a lot to learn), but I wonder if I'll care more when I get older.

My current goal is to make myself into the best person I can be, and through this to provide happiness to others.

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Re: What's your lifelong goal?
« Reply #6 on: December 08, 2014, 04:46:39 PM »
To be half the (kind, genuine, gracious and giving) person my dear Mom was.
She left a beautiful path I try my best to walk. I fail sometimes.

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Re: What's your lifelong goal?
« Reply #7 on: December 08, 2014, 05:20:50 PM »
Try to make that which is around me less sucky.

Increase the level of awesomeness in the world.

Try to be as good of a person as I can.

These are more or less all related or could be viewed as the same goal just said and performed differently. I'll let ya'll know when I can do it more than half the time. :)

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Re: What's your lifelong goal?
« Reply #8 on: December 08, 2014, 10:25:25 PM »
Don't worry be happy.

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« Reply #9 on: December 08, 2014, 10:52:49 PM »
I came across a poem when I was a child that has been attributed to Emerson. I read it and went: "yup that's how I want to have lived." I cut it out and put it in my wallet (20 years and several wallets later, it's still there)
As I have gotten older, it only seems to be more relevant.

“Success”
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To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people
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To earn the appreciation of honest critics
and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child,
a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.

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Re: What's your lifelong goal?
« Reply #10 on: December 09, 2014, 02:12:15 AM »
Fly a rented spacecraft around the orbit of my own personal planet for a few years, writing extensive novels and short stories, skydive into an ocean for a swim with an intelligent megalodon, and then hunt a tyrannosaurus rex with a phased plasma rifle in the 40kW range.

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Re: What's your lifelong goal?
« Reply #11 on: December 09, 2014, 03:31:31 AM »
I came across a poem when I was a child that has been attributed to Emerson. I read it and went: "yup that's how I want to have lived." I cut it out and put it in my wallet (20 years and several wallets later, it's still there)
As I have gotten older, it only seems to be more relevant.

“Success”
Inaccurately attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson

To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics
and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child,
a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.

Great poem! This is the kind of stuff I wanted to see when I started the thread. :)

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Re: What's your lifelong goal?
« Reply #12 on: December 09, 2014, 04:46:55 AM »
I'm an engineer. I love making useful things for people (I get off on it; WEIRD).

My dream is to open my own shop, make enough from it to support myself, then spend a lot of time in Asia. Number one is done, now working on two and three.

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Re: What's your lifelong goal?
« Reply #13 on: December 09, 2014, 07:58:57 AM »
Basically, what's the meaning of life for you?

Reduce entropy.

Being a doomed goal, that's kinda depressing.

Reduce entropy on a local level.

Ha! Even that is a pretty depressing goal. :P

Oh?

It's just the simplest way of saying what everyone else in this thread is going to say.
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Re: What's your lifelong goal?
« Reply #14 on: December 09, 2014, 08:20:36 AM »
To master the art of living. Came across this last week, and posted it in the "good quotes" thread yesterday, but it fits better here. This is my current lifelong goal:

Quote from: Francois Auguste Rene Chateaubriand
A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both.


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« Reply #15 on: December 09, 2014, 11:51:34 AM »
I came across a poem when I was a child that has been attributed to Emerson. I read it and went: "yup that's how I want to have lived." I cut it out and put it in my wallet (20 years and several wallets later, it's still there)
As I have gotten older, it only seems to be more relevant.

“Success”
Inaccurately attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson

To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics
and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child,
a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
I'm stealing this...thanks!

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Re: What's your lifelong goal?
« Reply #16 on: December 09, 2014, 03:37:37 PM »
To find happiness and content with myself, and to bring happiness to others. Considering my self esteem is somewhere near the center of the earth, it's a big thing for me to get there.

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« Reply #17 on: December 09, 2014, 04:19:54 PM »
Why do I need a goal?  So far the journey has been fun . . .

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« Reply #18 on: December 10, 2014, 03:19:22 AM »
Thank you swick for the poem 'Success' attributed to Emerson. Yo have achieved a small success just by posting it.


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« Reply #19 on: December 10, 2014, 06:05:05 AM »
I've kept a greeting card with the 'Success'
passage for years as it is so beautiful. I understand
that it was written by a Bessie Stanley, though
commonly mid-attributed to Emerson.

http://emerson-legacy.tamu.edu/Ephemera/Success.html

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« Reply #20 on: December 10, 2014, 08:54:38 AM »
To meet (and possibly exceed) my potential.  If the world ended today, I would have to say that I have completely wasted my talent.

What is potential?

What is yours?

How is it measured?

How do you know?

(Just some things to ponder; if it really is your lifelong goal, you'll probably have answers to those, or will want to.)
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« Reply #21 on: December 10, 2014, 11:38:18 AM »
I had another question re-reading your goal.  Is it even possible to "exceed" potential?  (I mean, this will obviously depend on your definition of potential, but I think saying yes pidgeonholes you into a definition where you can exceed it, which seems weird to me.)
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« Reply #22 on: December 10, 2014, 12:26:26 PM »
the very idea of gauging one's individual potential (what I'm capable of) comes from having a fixed mindset, don't you agree?

Absolutely!  Well said.
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« Reply #23 on: December 10, 2014, 12:34:45 PM »
To feel contentment and even moments of joy, to make the lives of those around me a little better than they would have been without me, to continually learn both knowledge and compassion, to live my life with as little regret as possible, to experience and satisfy my curiosity, and to live my life in the way I choose.

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« Reply #24 on: December 10, 2014, 12:44:16 PM »
I want to learn and I want to teach others.  I want to leave this culture better than when I came in.  Granted my idea of better is probably different than others.

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« Reply #25 on: December 10, 2014, 01:17:53 PM »
To have some type of positive influence on anyone or anything I encounter.

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« Reply #26 on: December 10, 2014, 01:31:04 PM »
To evolve. To let go of the limitations of the past so I can create more beauty, more depth, and more freedom in the universe.

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« Reply #27 on: December 11, 2014, 12:11:22 AM »
I'm moving away from being goal orientated, and instead being process orientated. Filling my life with healthy habits will make for an awesome life.

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« Reply #28 on: December 11, 2014, 09:23:36 AM »
I'm moving away from being goal orientated, and instead being process orientated. Filling my life with healthy habits will make for an awesome life.

I agree with being process oriented, but without the goals, how do you know which processes to choose?

In other words, I favor choosing a goal first, then deciding the best processes to get there, then focus on the processes, not the goal.  Like someone striving for FI shouldn't focus on the final number, but ways to improve their mindset, lifestyle, and habits in ways that will eventually get them to FI.  But figuring out the goal first so you know where you're going is still important, IMO.

EDIT: Relevant quote: "Goals are good for planning your progress and systems are good for actually making progress." -James Clear
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« Reply #29 on: December 11, 2014, 10:28:53 AM »
1) Apply to be a US astronaut
1a) Develop a competitive application
1b) Keep applying until they tell me to stop or I become otherwise ineligible

2) Become the new face of US science education, aka the new Bill Nye

3) Create something every day, whether it be something for my career, a work of art, or just dinner.

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« Reply #30 on: December 11, 2014, 10:36:43 AM »
to be happy.


having to work decreases the number of chances of that. need to put an end to that shit.

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« Reply #31 on: December 11, 2014, 11:08:13 AM »
To be happy and minimally negatively impact the planet.

Also, I want to create a television mini series mystery-drama. I have the idea, just don't know quite how to flesh it out and get a meeting to present it. This isn't really a lifelong goal, but it's a goal I certainly want to accomplish that would make my life very worthwhile.

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« Reply #32 on: December 20, 2014, 09:46:23 PM »
To lap that track a tenth of a second faster.

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« Reply #33 on: December 20, 2014, 10:09:19 PM »
When I was 19, I came across an article titled "the top 5 regrets of the dying" written, if I recall correctly, by a nurse in palliative care. What really stuck with me out of that is taking the time and energy for who and what I really value. Around the same time, I was doing a lot of reading into what makes people happy. What I came to is: relationships with friends and family, leisure time, health, and meaningful work (religion was another contributor, but I'm areligious, so that ship has sailed. However, some scientists think the boost may be due to community ties, belief that life will turn out ok, and taking time to pray/meditate). I've always tried to live so that when I'm old, I will have a lot of great ideas and stories to share, be surrounded by those I love, and so that when I'm on my deathbed, I won't have a lot of regrets.

So, I guess my life long goal is to live a really long, healthy life, and be able to look back on my life with satisfaction and happiness, having lived a life of meaning with deep relationships. I also strive to reduce the sum total of suffering.

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« Reply #34 on: December 20, 2014, 10:13:18 PM »
To make a Reuben from scratch scratch. Bread, kraut, corned beef, etc. Ideally, I'd like to grow and raise all the ingredients myself.

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« Reply #35 on: December 21, 2014, 06:40:17 AM »
a phased plasma rifle in the 40kW range.

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« Reply #36 on: December 21, 2014, 10:09:14 AM »
My lifelong goals, formed as a child, were to be 1) independent and 2) not poor.

Done and done.

Beyond that, I'm not sure I make the world a better place but I try pretty hard not to make it a worse one.

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« Reply #37 on: December 27, 2014, 01:11:45 PM »
When I picture myself in the long distant future, that olave you get to when you have figured out your money, your kid(s), etc I picture myself living simply and free.
I'd say my end goal is to raise my child to contribute love to the world and I want to do the same. I want to require very little to make me happy material-wise and I'd like to help people (specially children and elders) that are truly poor and destitute not only "get ahead" but to make them feel that they too are loved.
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« Reply #38 on: December 27, 2014, 01:13:51 PM »
I came across a poem when I was a child that has been attributed to Emerson. I read it and went: "yup that's how I want to have lived." I cut it out and put it in my wallet (20 years and several wallets later, it's still there)
As I have gotten older, it only seems to be more relevant.

“Success”
Inaccurately attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson

To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics
and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child,
a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
perfect. This is going in my wallet, err, purse.

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Re: What's your lifelong goal?
« Reply #39 on: December 27, 2014, 02:43:58 PM »
To master the art of living. Came across this last week, and posted it in the "good quotes" thread yesterday, but it fits better here. This is my current lifelong goal:

Quote from: Francois Auguste Rene Chateaubriand
A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both.

This sounds like a description of my husband. :)

For myself, my ultimate goal is to be harmless.  It is basically another impossible goal so I go for "to be as harmless as possible to all living things".

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« Reply #40 on: January 07, 2015, 05:27:59 PM »
That as I die, I will have no regrets.
After I die, I will see God's face.
And there will be people left behind who will think of me often.

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« Reply #41 on: January 08, 2015, 09:34:56 AM »
That as I die, I will have no regrets.
After I die, I will see God's face.
And there will be people left behind who will think of me often.

Only the first is in your direct control.

Something to think about.
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« Reply #42 on: January 08, 2015, 11:49:09 AM »
I want to make the perfect cup of coffee.

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« Reply #43 on: January 08, 2015, 01:07:22 PM »
That as I die, I will have no regrets.
After I die, I will see God's face.
And there will be people left behind who will think of me often.

Only the first is in your direct control.

Something to think about.

Not at all.  The third is easily achievable.  Carrying a highly contagious, incurable disease to a large population center before dying messily would certainly ensure that many would think often of him after his death.

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« Reply #44 on: January 08, 2015, 08:25:48 PM »
That as I die, I will have no regrets.
After I die, I will see God's face.
And there will be people left behind who will think of me often.

Only the first is in your direct control.

Something to think about.

Not at all.  The third is easily achievable.  Carrying a highly contagious, incurable disease to a large population center before dying messily would certainly ensure that many would think often of him after his death.

No guarantee it'll be attributed to you, people will remember you specifically, etc.

And you won't know either.

I like your out of the box thinking though.
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« Reply #45 on: January 09, 2015, 06:04:20 AM »
That as I die, I will have no regrets.
After I die, I will see God's face.
And there will be people left behind who will think of me often.

Only the first is in your direct control.

Something to think about.

Not at all.  The third is easily achievable.  Carrying a highly contagious, incurable disease to a large population center before dying messily would certainly ensure that many would think often of him after his death.

No guarantee it'll be attributed to you, people will remember you specifically, etc.

And you won't know either.

I like your out of the box thinking though.

True enough, consider the first person to bring HIV to a populated area. That person (probably a dude) isn't remembered. No one knows their name.

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« Reply #46 on: January 09, 2015, 08:42:08 AM »
Hmm.  So, you're saying he would need to leak his name to the press explaining his plan shortly before the outbreak to ensure success.

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« Reply #47 on: January 12, 2015, 11:06:14 AM »
Unless the world pays you... a hefty ransom?

I am a former teacher who accumulated a bunch of real estate, retired at 29, spent some time traveling the world full time and am now settled with three kids.
If you want to know more about me, this Business Insider profile tells the story pretty well.
I (rarely) blog at AdventuringAlong.com. Check out the Now page to see what I'm up to currently.

joehenderson

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Re: What's your lifelong goal?
« Reply #48 on: January 22, 2015, 05:51:14 AM »
If possible ever, then go on a backpacking tour in the far east with my family, that's what my dream is and trying to achieve that.