Ah yeah, and thanks for that link -- I actually identify with that question-asker a lot. Goals aren't usually a big thing for me either -- I kind of accomplished a ton of them early in life (e.g. getting into and then through MIT, living in a city, getting out of debt, getting over some childhood stuff) and now I'm pretty set on the biggest things. (I used to drive my financial advisor mildly mad with not having any medium-term financial goals, until he realized I was serious about retiring early. He's satisfied with me now.)
I do want a press handstand.
What I like about an "I know I'm being successful when" list is that it's not so much about goals that you just... achieve... but instead has some implicit acceptance of sometimes doing well and sometimes not. I think yours also has some subtlety in it, since nobody is ever at 100% or 0% regret about experiences.
It's hilarious to me how many people perceive me as being all ambitious and driven or whatever. I don't feel that way from the inside. Maybe some of it is like: I don't really have goals but I do have high standards for how I do my aimless wandering around?
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I do want a press handstand.
What I like about an "I know I'm being successful when" list is that it's not so much about goals that you just... achieve... but instead has some implicit acceptance of sometimes doing well and sometimes not. I think yours also has some subtlety in it, since nobody is ever at 100% or 0% regret about experiences.
It's hilarious to me how many people perceive me as being all ambitious and driven or whatever. I don't feel that way from the inside. Maybe some of it is like: I don't really have goals but I do have high standards for how I do my aimless wandering around?