My Life Goals
Understanding and progress of humanity through mastery. Trustworthy decade-long relationships. And happy, truthseeking and focused mind.
Summary
The life I want the most has 3 parts. (1) Grow our understanding of reality and greatly progress humanity via mastery in a fulfilling and joyful crafts. (2) Nurture trustworthy, enriching decades-long relationships with a few; and listening with kindness to anyone. (3) Cultivate a happy, truthseeking and focused mind with a supporting body.
The Life I Want the Most
As I’ve explained in My Life Philosophy I’m meaning agnostic, that leads to taking nihilism seriously, which I find deeply liberating as universe becomes just a huge playground where I can do whatever I want. Particularly, craft the life I want the most.
Upon much thought and rewriting, the life I want the most can be broken down into six goals:
Understanding reality and greatly progress humanity.
Significantly contribute via mastery in a fulfilling and joyful crafts.
Build trustworthy, intimate and enriching decades-long relationships with a few I admire.
Nurture default trustworthiness, listening and kindness to anyone, including myself.
Cultivate a happy, truthseeking and focused mind.
Cultivate a supporting body till 100.
It seems that what drives me deep down is: the desire for greatness (in all parts of life), impact, curiosity about reality, deep relationships, sprinkle of plain survival, and genuine excitement for life and what I can do with it.
The surest way I found for wasting my life is to get caught up in games people around me play, like who wears better clothes, has a fancier car or more money. With time I understood that being very cautious and explicit about which games you choose to play is a superpower. The goals above are the games I’m playing, everything else is a distraction and I have to daily remind myself of that. (I found dividing life into three parts of Work, Relationships and Health really useful, for each I have two goals.)