Checklist
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experiences
- Adopt a husky and live in a cold country for a while
- Watch the northern lights
- Visit every continent
- Live in a different country for at least a year
- Go on a solo road trip with no fixed plan
- Scuba dive in a coral reef
- Sleep under the stars in a desert
- Swim with a blue whale
- Go sailing for two months
- Raise a horse from a pony
- Become a skydiver
- Go cliff jumping
- Go cliff jumping at various places in Europe
- Play a cricket match at Lord's
- Watch the Boxing Day Test at the MCG
- Take 5 or more wickets in a match
- Score a century in a cricket match final
- Play a match of county cricket or Division 3 cricket in India
career
- Become a product manager
- Build a product that people actually want
- Start a company
- Invest in a company that changes an industry
- Give a talk at a major conference
- Mentor someone who goes on to do great things
- Work on something used by millions of people
creative
- Perform a music gig in front of an audience
- Write a book
- Learn a musical instrument well enough to play for friends
- Make a short film
- Create something that outlasts me
- Build my own fantasy world and story
- Design a city
- Write a popular song
- Learn calligraphy
- Write a poem that moves a stranger
knowledge
- Become a software engineer
- Learn how to swim
- Learn to ice skate
- Learn how to fly a plane and take my friends on a trip
- Become conversational in three languages
- Read 1000 books
- Understand quantum physics well enough to explain it simply
- Learn Punjabi
- Get really good at chess
- Study philosophy formally
- Learn industrial design and design a popular physical product that people use
- Learn to cook one perfect dish from ten different cuisines
life
- Fall in love
- Have my heart broken
- Build a home that feels like a sanctuary
- Cook a meal that makes someone cry happy tears
- Run a marathon
- Develop a meditation practice that sticks
- Be at peace with who I am
- Make a friend in a country I've never been to