 I'm doing 43 things |
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Work on my secret goal
1 entry . 21 cheers |
58 people |
| 2. |
Get used to do interesting experiments every day
4 entries . 7 cheers |
1 person |
| 3. |
Spread my father's ashes in India
1 entry . 10 cheers |
1 person |
| 4. |
Publish a paper
9 cheers |
148 people |
| 5. |
Get a PhD
1 entry . 8 cheers |
2,682 people |
| 6. |
Get a masters degree
1 entry . 3 cheers |
2,794 people |
| 7. |
Run a sub 7min/mile 10k
15 entries . 6 cheers |
2 people |
| 8. |
Run a marathon
10 entries . 10 cheers |
9,924 people |
| 9. |
Get more sleep
17 entries . 9 cheers |
4,094 people |
| 10. |
Understand quantum field theory
5 entries . 14 cheers |
6 people |
| 11. |
Reach my ideal weight
3 entries . 9 cheers |
130 people |
| 12. |
Make a smaller ecological footprint
2 entries . 12 cheers |
1,044 people |
| 13. |
Learn Irish
8 entries . 11 cheers |
143 people |
| 14. |
Cycle from Dublin to Madrid
4 entries . 10 cheers |
1 person |
| 15. |
Use three new English words every day
11 cheers |
3 people |
| 16. |
Be proficient in Java
1 entry . 3 cheers |
7 people |
| 17. |
Be fluent in German
1 entry . 4 cheers |
212 people |
| 18. |
Make my own light alarm clock
4 cheers |
1 person |
| 19. |
Be more charismatic
4 cheers |
81 people |
| 20. |
Get my driving licence
8 cheers |
138 people |
| 21. |
Collect myself a pebble, stone or mineral from every EU country
6 entries . 12 cheers |
1 person |
| 22. |
Learn Russian
7 cheers |
2,365 people |
| 23. |
Go to the Kerguelen Islands
2 cheers |
2 people |
| 24. |
Learn Hungarian
3 cheers |
199 people |
| 25. |
Create a board game and have it produced
1 entry . 10 cheers |
6 people |
| 26. |
Write a science fiction novel
6 cheers |
59 people |
| 27. |
Live in Berlin
1 entry . 6 cheers |
117 people |
| 28. |
Plant trees
1 entry . 10 cheers |
93 people |
| 29. |
Improve my Portuguese
9 entries . 3 cheers |
38 people |
| 30. |
Teach my partner Italian
1 entry . 4 cheers |
1 person |
| 31. |
Collect euro coins of each value from every country in the Eurozone
6 entries . 1 cheer |
3 people |
| 32. |
Be able to name all 16 of my great great grandparents
3 entries . 2 cheers |
10 people |
| 33. |
Write a book about astronomy in Veneto
1 cheer |
1 person |
| 34. |
Write a guide to Dublin in Esperanto
1 cheer |
1 person |
| 35. |
Start my own company
5 cheers |
867 people |
| 36. |
Learn the constellations
14 cheers |
545 people |
| 37. |
Teach Esperanto to ten people
3 cheers |
2 people |
| 38. |
Learn to identify plants, flowers, and trees
1 entry . 17 cheers |
106 people |
| 39. |
Learn to speak Latin fluently
3 cheers |
3 people |
| 40. |
Learn more about India
4 cheers |
2 people |
| 41. |
Learn Hindi
1 entry . 2 cheers |
586 people |
| 42. |
Learn to speak Toki Pona
2 cheers |
19 people |
| 43. |
Finish reading Don Quixote
8 cheers |
13 people |
How I did it: I love maths and physics. In these areas people speak and think about very simple systems that become complex. I always heard go has very simple rules, but it is very difficult to play well. The great chess player Edward Lasker said once "While the Baroque rules of Chess could only have been created by humans, the rules of Go are so elegant, organic, and rigorously logical that if intelligent life forms exist elsewhere in the universe, th… Read how I did it…
How I did it: I have studied Physics, but I always liked science in general, and I knew that, to feel fulfilled, I had to be part of an interdisciplinary team.A few months before finishing my degree in physics, I started to check several laboratories that worked in something related to bioinformatics.After having checked several options, I realised that the most interesting was a laboratory about proteomics in Madrid. Even if I preferred to live in a n… Read how I did it…
How I did it: I had a lot of time in summer, so I picked up a book from the local library about that interesting language I had heard about when I was too busy with highschool homework.I just started teching myself Esperanto, which was not difficult, as it is very easy: no exceptions, fexible, regular spelling and easy vocabulary (when you don't know the word for something, you can create a word just using the roots and suffixes you already know). As I… Read how I did it…
I have bought Teach Yourself Beginner’s Hindi, with audio (audio is important, as I am not living in India).
For the moment I have fulfilled the very first step, which is learning the alphabet. It is has been relatively easy. I still struggle sometimes to tell the difference between the different “d” and “t” sounds, and from time to time I find new consonant pairs I did not know previously. But I think I have already learnt the basics.
Now I have to keep working.
For work reasons I finally could not start this goal in July, as I wanted. In August I will have other duties, so I am not going to be able to do this goal this year, as from September nights will be longer, and I prefer to cycle during the daytime.
However, sooner or later I will do this, as I think it is a pretty nice idea. I have been flying many times between Spain/Italy and Ireland, but I always did this in just two or three hours, which never gave me the real idea of what was the real distance.
... or Common Mullein.
Today I have discovered what plants are those I meet every day in the bicycle lane when commuting to my workplace.
They are wonderful: tall, nice, with five petal yellow flowers. They suddenly seemed to come into existence last month (however, apparently they have been there for one year so far), and the landscape has got a nice summery yellow hue.
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rockie0909 wants to lose twenty pounds
bathe in a waterfall
Read the Bible
learn what time it is in other countries
Fall Ridiculously and Wrecklessly, head-over-heels in Love
get over him
Learn to play the drums
live forever
nnayram wants to have a summer romance
WATCH LOST SEASON 2
go ice-skating again
climb a mountain
realize my potential
Rule the world
Be a better friend
travel around the world
Try out new recipes
write and publish a novel
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