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Saafir

is contemplating life as a cognitive neuroscientist



I'm doing 43 things
  

Saafir's Life List

  1. 1. CREATE BEAUTY. Become a steward of music, art, literature, and architecture. Create a life that is a net gain for beauty in the world.
    1 entry . 42 cheers     		4 people
  2. 2. become a musician
    9 cheers     		117 people
  3. 3. practice like Coltrane
    1 entry . 7 cheers     		1 person
  4. 4. practice my music two hours a day, three days a week, during the month of June
    1 entry . 4 cheers     		1 person
  5. 5. learn to play the guitar
    2 entries . 7 cheers     		10,738 people
  6. 6. build my repertoire to twenty songs
    7 cheers     		1 person
  7. 7. learn three of Ray Charles' songs
    1 entry . 2 cheers     		1 person
  8. 8. finish the "Set Your Voice Free" voice training program
    2 entries . 3 cheers     		1 person
  9. 9. learn to easily distinguish jazz drummers; start with Elvin Jones, Billy Higgins, Tony Williams, Paul Motian, Art Blakey, Max Roach, and Roy Haynes
    4 entries . 20 cheers     		2 people
  10. 10. train 75 minutes a day, five days per week, for two months
    1 entry . 1 cheer     		1 person
  11. 11. make beautiful martial art
    1 entry . 8 cheers     		1 person
  12. 12. Earn a black belt in Tae Kwon Do
    4 cheers     		13 people
  13. 13. learn the first five forms in Tae-kwon-do (Chon-Ji, Dan-Gun, Do-San, Wan-Yo, and Yul-Guk)
    4 cheers     		7 people
  14. 14. learn to do a handstand
    4 cheers     		136 people
  15. 15. Meditate daily
    28 team members . 11 entries . 14 cheers     		3,418 people
  16. 16. work out a personal philosophy for my martial arts practice
    4 cheers     		1 person
  17. 17. USE MY GIFTS of intelligence and curiosity to serve others
    1 entry . 41 cheers     		2 people
  18. 18. become a great teacher
    1 entry . 12 cheers     		25 people
  19. 19. finish college
    1 entry . 33 cheers     		2,606 people
  20. 20. become a polymath
    2 entries . 3 cheers     		19 people
  21. 21. learn six topics well enough that I can teach them at the college level: philosophy, evolutionary biology, the martial arts, making art with computers, music theory, and the history of jazz
    3 entries . 25 cheers     		1 person
  22. 22. learn one topic well enough that I can teach it at the graduate level: get a Ph.D in psychology
    2 cheers     		1 person
  23. 23. Visit one-hundred museums
    1 entry . 38 cheers     		9 people
  24. 24. 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.
    7 entries . 15 cheers     		13 people
  25. 25. understand Wittgenstein
    2 cheers     		3 people
  26. 26. Read the entire Bible
    3 team members . 20 entries . 9 cheers     		2,155 people
  27. 27. read more novels
    3 cheers     		77 people
  28. 28. WEAVE A TAPESTRY of COMPASSION. Make my life a place of warmth and joy for the people who pass through it.
    1 entry . 53 cheers     		2 people
  29. 29. learn how to give a woman orgasms
    2 entries . 13 cheers     		2 people
  30. 30. scan all of my family photos and post them on flickr
    6 cheers     		1 person
  31. 31. be someone's best friend
    21 cheers     		28 people
  32. 32. talk to my friends every day
    2 cheers     		1 person
  33. 33. create a beautiful home with my family and fill it with art, music, pets, and plants
    30 cheers     		1 person
  34. 34. contribute to moral progress
    2 entries . 14 cheers     		1 person
  35. 35. dress better than Miles Davis, James Bond, Jimi Hendrix, and the Sartorialist
    4 entries . 9 cheers     		1 person
  36. 36. experience awe
    11 cheers     		1 person
  37. 37. DO GOOD WORK: Use my best talents to serve the world through my profession. Perform work of the highest ethical and technical caliber
    3 entries . 18 cheers     		3 people
  38. 38. Live in gratitude & be happy even if the rest of the things on this list never happen
    2 team members . 86 entries . 16 cheers     		59 people
  39. 39. learn enough CSS and DHTML to make a beautiful MySpace page
    		1 person
  40. 40. Keep a journal
    26 entries . 8 cheers     		2,273 people
  41. 41. schedule daily goals I can accomplish
    7 entries . 2 cheers     		24 people
  42. 42. build a stunning website
    1 entry     		2 people
  43. 43. make a funkier, sweeter batch of Funk Muffins
    2 entries     		1 person
Recent entries
practice my music two hours a day, three days a week, during the month of June
I obviously didn't make this goal... 1 week ago

in June, but I gave myself until the end of July as a challenge. If I practice three days a week for the next three weeks, I’ll mark it “done.” I just have to

a) take my meds earlier so that I can,
b) wake up earlier on days that I work, because I’ll be,
c) following a schedule that I will
d) write in my little red notebook.

If none of this works, I’ll just try it again in August.

3 cheers | 1 comment

make a funkier, sweeter batch of Funk Muffins (read all 2 entries…)
I made another disc... 1 week ago

but I am not satisfied with it. There are too many songs that I don’t love.

1 cheer | 3 comments

schedule daily goals I can accomplish (read all 7 entries…)
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 2 weeks ago
1. CREATE BEAUTY. Become a steward of music, art, literature, and architecture. Create a life that is a net gain for beauty in the world.

Become a musician
  • Do thirty minutes of singing exercises
  • Practice the chromatic scale on the guitar for twenty minutes
  • Practice “I Got A Woman” on the guitar for twenty minutes
  • Practice “Angel Eyes” and “All of You” for thirty minutes
  • Read a few chapters from my music theory book
Make beautiful martial art
  • Workout for an hour and fifteen minutes
    • Do Yoga for an hour
    • Do strength training for a half hour
  • Go to Christopher’s Tae-kwon-do class tonight

2. WEAVE A TAPESTRY of COMPASSION. Make my life a place of warmth and joy for the people who pass through it.

  • Call Munir
  • Text Hanan
  • Scan in a few dozen of Mom’s photos
  • Read a few chapters of Gottman’s book
3. GET MY shit together
  • Burn CDs of Kim’s “Compilation’s” folder to free up some space on her hard drive

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