Goals

If you want to accomplish anything, you have to aim high, so here are some of my goals.

Personal Life / Family

  • Raise a family
  • Own a home. I'd like to eventually help design my own home.  I'd like for the house to be completely self-sustaining in terms of heating, cooling, and electricity. I also want to have a nice, large Japanese-style ornamental garden with two or more water gardens, a stream, waterfall, and many miniature trees.

Health / Fitness

  • Continue exercising and reach my optimal fitness level
  • Live to be at least 130.  This has been my goal since I was about 14.  It's not as far-fetched as it may sound if you consider the advances that will likely be made in the next few decades.

Academic / professional

  • Learn more differential geometry and practice it until I master the subject
  • Learn more about group theory
  • Study topology
  • Learn more general relativity and practice applying the theory
  • Learn more about modified gravitational theories
  • Study quantum field theory
  • Learn the essentials of modern particle physics
  • Publish some papers
  • Finish my PhD
  • Get a job that allows me to continue learning and teaching while living comfortably
  • Make a significant contribution in the form of a discovery or the development of a new theory or useful technique
  • Write several books
  • Earn my own entry in Wikipedia---rather than creating one for myself (as some people do).

Miscellaneous

  • See a total solar eclipse (most likely this one: Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017)
  • Become licensed to fly a plane.
  • Visit every continent on Earth.
  • Travel beyond Earth's atmosphere.

Hopes

  • I hope to live to see the day when humans finally move beyond the archaic,  counter-productive money-based economy.