An impossible list
I have been subscribed to Thomas Frank Youtube channel for at least the last 5 years (or even more). I don´t know how I did find it, but I really like how he has evolved.
One of the things that I most admire about him is his Impossible list. A concept that makes "A bucket list" even better. It supposes to showcase proof of them and grow and change with my life. And something that I´m more clear is that an intentional life requiere clarity to make the goal attainable.
This is the impossible list that I wrote 15 years later that I got evicted from my family home. Now I´m a 32-years old grad student in the US, but hopefully, some of the things on this list will make me get through this. Also, part of this list is an ongoing conversation with my covalent Matí because married life isn´t shared goals?
What is an impossible list, more from his creator Joel Runyon
Life Goals
Life Goals
- Maintain a healthy, stable, and fun relation with my life-covalent Mati
- Get my Ph.D. before 2023 starts.
- Have and maintain a personal website (this one, launch in April in I AM Creator 2021; migrated to Google in April 2022
- Get my twitter account at 5K followers
Habits Goals
- Brush my teeth for 3 months, without missing a day.
- Write 500 words 100 days in a row
- Read 25 pages a day for three months in a row
Proffesional Goals
Proffesional goals
- Get published in a major journal in my field
- Get published as a solo author in a paper in English
- Get published as a solo author in a paper in Spanish
- Get a special issue edited
- Write 25,000 words in a month
- Lead a grant for at least $10K
- Walk into a bookstore and take a picture of a book I wrote that’s for sale there
- Release a solo book in Spanish
- Release a solo book in English
- Release an edited volume (either language)
- Go to 10 4S in a row. (8 in October 2021)
- Get Paid to Travel
Public Scholarship
- Launch a product that creates over $5,000 in revenue within one month
- Give a talk for more than 100 people (not a class)
- Host a series on Crash Course
- Give a TEDx Talk
- Have a Professional Photo Shoot
Skills & Games achivements
Video Game Goals
- Complete Breath of the Wild
- Complete Sw/Sh Pokedex
-.Complete Pokemon Go Pokedex
Skills
- Learn how to make electronic music (and release a track using synths as the main element)
- Learn how to properly dance tango
- Create a video that gets international coverage
- Develop photographic skills
Fitness
Fitness
- Do a front flip unassisted
- Do a backflip unassisted
- Learn how to do Parkour (it´s vague, until understand the art)
- Climb a 5.10 rock climbing route at a climbing gym
- Learn how to lead climb
- Complete an spartan race
- Participate in a triathlon
- Cycle 100 km in a day
- Learn how to hit jumps on a mountain bike
- Deadlift 405
- Back Squat 400+
- Front Squat 300+
- Bench 200+
- Press 200+
- Snatch 150+
- Do 1o pull-up in a single set
- Do a muscle up in bar
- Do a muscle up in rings
- Get a Crossfit Level 1 certificate
Languages and Travels
Language
- Portuguese (certified in B2)
- Japanese (certified in A2)
Travel
- Visit Japan for at least 2 weeks
- Visit Germany for at least 1 week
- Visit Colombia for at least 1 week
- Visit 5 countries in the same week
- Visit the Amazon rainforest
- Visit one country of every continent (Currently done: Europe, Oceania, SAmerica, NAmerica).
- Visit the Antartica (and take selfies with penguins!)
Events to Attend
- ComicCon San Diego
- SHOT
- CHI
- SxSw
- Carnival (Brazil)
Once in a lifetime
Once in a lifetime
- Bungee jump
- Break a world record
- Go one month vegan
- Eat Fire
- Jump Off a Cliff
- Play a Game of Paintball
- Chase a Tornado
- Climb a Volcano
- Wear a Wig for the Day
- Stand Under a Waterfall
- Dance at a Rave
- See an Opera in Europe
- Find My Signature Scent
- Watch the Sunrise & Sunset in one Day
- Leave a 100% Tip for a Server
- Write a Love Note with Lipstick on the Bathroom Mirror
- Celebrate a public anniversary party with Mati and all friends
YES: Crossfit, Twitter, Coffee, Futurism(s), Science Communication, Pokemon, Pinguins, Daft Punk
NO: Added sugar, Standarization, Arizona´s summers
STAN: Britney Spears, Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, Childish Gambino, Metamodernism, Latin America