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.
