Saafir

is planning his best year yet


Saafir's 104 goals tagged learning
  1. Learn to play the guitar 12670 people
  2. learn to dance 6590 people
  3. work for Apple 183 people
  4. become a college professor 79 people
  5. plant a garden 1845 people
  6. learn about buddhism 391 people
  7. Read the entire Bible 2465 people
  8. Go hunting 194 people
  9. learn to do a handstand 156 people
  10. learn more about Hinduism 16 people
  11. read more novels 85 people
  12. pick a major 99 people
  13. read Walden 33 people
  14. become a polymath 35 people
  15. learn more physics 3 people
  16. learn to keep my plants alive 1 person
  17. earn an advanced degree in the social sciences 1 person
  18. cultivate grit 0 people
  19. listen to 40 jazz albums in 1 year 0 people
  20. Visit one-hundred museums 8 people
  21. edit the Wikipedia entry on "Happiness" 0 people
  22. Earn A’s in my Environmental Ecology, Writing and Research Methods in Philosophy, and American Literature classes 0 people
  23. study for fifteen to twenty hours each week 0 people
  24. drink two-hundred kinds of beer at the Flying Saucer 3 people
  25. read Leaves of Grass 5 people
  26. finish my undergraduate degree in three semesters 0 people
  27. describe my life's work: the passionate quest that will consume most of my energy over the next fifty years 0 people
  28. become a great teacher 30 people
  29. learn about American Literature by reading major writers and learning about their biographies 0 people
  30. learn the Chris Bliss "Golden Slumbers" juggling routine 2 people
  31. contribute to moral progress: expand my moral circle to include all humans and higher animals 0 people
  32. learn to easily distinguish jazz drummers; start with Elvin Jones, Billy Higgins, Tony Williams, Paul Motian, Max Roach, and Roy Haynes 0 people
  33. systematically learn five topics well enough that I can teach them at the college level: analytic philosophy, calculus, evolutionary biology, world literature, and the psychology of happiness 0 people
  34. USE MY GIFT of intelligence to serve. Create a disciplined mind, capable of sustained inquiry, steeped in the best ideas, and constantly generating new ones. Use what I discover to improve the lives of as many as I can. 0 people
  35. buy and read every title in "The New Lifetime Reading Plan" : Read dozens of major works of literature, poetry, and philosophy over the next forty years. 14 people
  36. read a book per week for ten weeks 0 people
  37. tune my guitar 3 people
  38. read two books per week for ten weeks 0 people
  39. learn the first five forms in Tae-kwon-do (Chon-Ji, Dan-Gun, Do-San, Wan-Yo, and Yul-Guk) 7 people
  40. read four chapters of a book in one day 0 people
  41. learn to easily distinguish jazz drummers; start with Elvin Jones, Billy Higgins, Tony Williams, Paul Motian, Art Blakey, Max Roach, and Roy Haynes 1 person
  42. listen to one-hundred jazz albums in one year 0 people
  43. read all of my Wired and Scientific American magazines and sell them or give them away 0 people
  44. ride out with a cop 0 people
  45. read this week's Economist from cover to cover 0 people
  46. Watch Penn and Teller explain why "The Bible is Bullshit" 0 people
  47. read the Psalms 3 people
  48. write ten "Chicken Soup for the Skeptic's Soul" blog entries 0 people
  49. read Exodus and write a commentary on it 0 people
  50. Read the August 2005 Scientific American magazine from cover to cover 0 people
  51. have fun while I'm in San Francisco 0 people
  52. read an entire book in one day 0 people
  53. Read 50 books in 2007 470 people
  54. read Leviticus and write a commentary on it 0 people
  55. get really good at giving my wife orgasms 0 people
  56. learn how to give my wife orgasms 0 people
  57. read "Now, Discover Your Strengths" again, and write a blog entry on it 0 people
  58. read Numbers and write an entry on it 0 people
  59. read Deuteronomy and write a commentary on it 0 people
  60. read Joshua and Judges and write a commentary on them 0 people
  61. read Joshua, Judges, and Ruth; write a commentary on them 0 people
  62. write two book reviews from my "Skeptic's Soul" blog 0 people
  63. read the October 2004 Scientific American and tag all of the articles on del.ico.us 0 people
  64. read two chapters apiece from Authentic Happiness and The Happiness Hypothesis 0 people
  65. re-read two chapters apiece from Authentic Happiness and The Happiness Hypothesis: write a summary of them and post it to Skeptic's Soul 0 people
  66. vocally transcribe two songs from Sarah Vaughn's Swingin' Easy album 0 people
  67. read and take notes on the next two chapters in Authentic Happiness and The Happiness Hypothesis 0 people
  68. read for two hours 0 people
  69. read all of the books on my bookshelf from cover to cover this year 2 people
  70. read half of the books on my bookshelf from cover to cover this year 0 people
  71. get street smarts 0 people
  72. learn cognitive techniques for dealing with depression and anxiety 0 people
  73. USE MY GIFTS of intelligence and curiosity to serve others 3 people
  74. vocally transcribe two of Sarah Vaughn's songs from her "Swingin' Easy" album 0 people
  75. read the Happiness Hypothesis and Authentic Happiness: take detailed notes and write reviews of both books 0 people
  76. read the Happiness Hypothesis and Authentic Happiness 0 people
  77. read "Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy" and write a Skeptic Soup review of it 0 people
  78. read the "Essential Components of CBT for Depression" book and glean some insights for my own case 1 person
  79. read the Encyclopedia Britannica article on jazz 0 people
  80. return to work with enthusiasm and focus on my strengths 0 people
  81. learn about 1920s jazz 2 people
  82. draft seven Skeptic Soup entries and post them 0 people
  83. memorize all of the parts (bass, piano, and vocal) on the Sarah Vaughn "Swingin' Easy" album 0 people
  84. read all of the Encyclopedia Brittanica Macropedia articles on philosophy 0 people
  85. study philosophy of language for ten hours each week, write several check+ RTPS, and write a decent paper 0 people
  86. learn all the members of the Wu-Tang clan 0 people
  87. listen to 43 rock albums that are new to me 0 people
  88. join the Galaxy Zoo project and start classifying galaxies 0 people
  89. Find work that inspires me and plays to my strengths 0 people
  90. learn more about Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer, and Duke Ellington 0 people
  91. learn "All of You" as written 0 people
  92. practice like Coltrane 2 people
  93. re-submit my application to UTA 0 people
  94. read "She Comes First: The Thinking Man's Guide to Pleasuring a Woman." Take notes 0 people
  95. transcribe the Miles Davis 1955 'Round About Midnight version of "All of You" 0 people
  96. learn enough Spanish to cuss Miti out without him knowing about it 1 person
  97. learn how to give a woman orgasms 2 people
  98. learn three of Ray Charles' songs 1 person
  99. buy a couple of good books on yoga and tae kwon do 0 people
  100. build a stunning website 2 people
  101. learn one topic well enough that I can teach it at the graduate level: get a Ph.D in cognitive neuroscience 1 person
  102. finish the 600 hour challenge 3 people
  103. practice for seventeen hours this week 0 people
  104. finish the entire Hal Leonard Guitar Method: learn 80% of the songs and 96% of the chords 1 person

 

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