Avoiding smartphone culture is a big one for me. Can I manage another year without joining the brain-dead herd?

hardly a bragging point

technology consists of tools - knowledge is how to use them, wisdom is when.

I saved a woman's life because I had a cell at hand.

It could be seen as an accomplishment if there was a high degree of resistance involved
Internet addiction is now a recognised psychiatric disorder just like any other addiction

surreptitious57 wrote:It could be seen as an accomplishment if there was a high degree of resistance involved
Internet addiction is now a recognised psychiatric disorder just like any other addiction

I was innoculated with a graphic calculator in the 80s/90s.

...and knowledge.

https://atlantablackstar.com/2017/09/25 ... can-blood/

Accomplishment possibly gratitude of clients in a senior center with intensive care and perhaps kudo's from the head of anesthesiology in childern's hospital who noted that the kids I brought in were easy to put asleep before procedures and wake up after.

Goal is clear, however, to die.

tuco wrote:Accomplishment possibly gratitude of clients in a senior center with intensive care and perhaps kudo's from the head of anesthesiology in childern's hospital who noted that the kids I brought in were easy to put asleep before procedures and wake up after.

Goal is clear, however, to die.

Ambitious goal since they abolished death again at the weekend.

I have nothing to my name that I'd call an accomplishment, even my MA in the uni did not require that much work, and I could have produced a better thesis had I given it more time and effort.

As for life goals, finding a new lover before my poor heart is so broken it stops working would be a nice one.

ust like any other addiction

exactly ...hardly an accomplishment tho I'd mark overcoming physical addiction like booze or certain drugs a life accomplishment.
Fortunately my genetics seem substance resistance - really very little interest in booze or drugs tho marijuana is wonderful enhancer for certain experience ...music, food and

as for on topic.

Keeping a small business going for 33 years in a tough tech category I'm proud of and bringing two replacement kids of reasonable worth to the genetic mix despite a very late start.
Genetic line most likely stops with them ...that's okay too.

Still traveling lots, riding motorcycle at 71 for distance ( 520 km today ) with view to cross continent in June - reading lots, getting to be a better photographer. tolerating getting beaten at scrabble too often and finding a life partner from half a world away late in life all "satisfaction markers"

I built a small city in the desert, complete with balloons. I once recited Pi to over 600 decimal places. (I am not a savant.)


I would like to maybe go into space one day.

This is my short-term goal.

I hope to strike it middle class someday.

aufbahrung wrote:Avoiding smartphone culture is a big one for me. Can I manage another year without joining the brain-dead herd?

You accomplished not doing something?

I hope to strike it middle class someday.

over rated

Got my (teenage) dream job, got married on a desert island, have a baby coming.
Ambition: a 9-5 office chair; free weekends; get promoted up twice; die on a desert island.

No great accomplishments, most of it was luck of the draw. As for life goals, 6 months a year cruising the Carribbean and 6 months on the "farm" in Swaziland. We'll get there. Soon, my precious, soon.

dup

I seem to have arrived where I am now despite very low expectations being drummed into me from an early age.
Rather than give a list of accomplishments such as job, family, material success, qualifications and whatnot, I’ll refer to the psycho-social theory of Erik Erikson.

Erikson posited that we go through distinct phases in our psycho-social development. He is clear that our psychological development is intimately tied in with our sociality and social relations.

There are such stages as the adolescent stage where people try to work out who they are and who they can be. This leads to the various tribal identities often based around (in retrospect) such rather superficial criteria as music and fashion tastes and the like.

Next comes the relationship stage in early adulthood where people start to form more intimate and lasting relationships. Sitting next to someone at school was sufficient basis for friendship during childhood, and being into the same music was sufficient grounds for a boyfriend/girlfriend relationship during adolescence, but early adulthood requires more considered criteria for relationships. Also during this time, relationships with parents have to be redefined. I’m still your son, but I am no longer your child.

Next comes middle adulthood and a social role that involves mentoring and care for others. Juniors in the workplace, children of your own, perhaps taking a greater care role for aging parents. The focus has shifted from primarily self-directed in adolescence, to a binary focus of attention (self and other) in the relationship building stage, to a primarily other-based focus in middle age. It is what I can do for others that really consumes my energies and attention here. I guess I am at that stage now.

I look after my students at work, manage part-time and junior teachers, and do plenty of workshops and conference talks that seek to help others in their professional and intellectual development. I provide for my family in a material sense and also support and nurture my kids in all of the intangible ways.

So, my accomplishments? I have proceeded through all of the appropriate stages in psycho-social development in a more or less successful manner and I am exactly where I am supposed to be, according to the theory.

More on Erikson here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erikson%27s_stages_of_psychosocial_development

So far the peak of my accomplishments is to no longer insist that the plural of atlas is atlantes. My life goal is to listen to "The media/phenomena/data is..." without such expressions sticking in my craw. I know, I know, it's an ambitious one, but with a lot of determination, hard work and a bit of luck it may be achievable.

I looked up that Erickson thingy and apparently I'm in the "wisdom" stage. I think I missed the Wisdom Fairy. Been waiting for that bitch for years, and I'm slipping into senility still knowing fuck all.

laklak wrote:I looked up that Erickson thingy and apparently I'm in the "wisdom" stage. I think I missed the Wisdom Fairy. Been waiting for that bitch for years, and I'm slipping into senility still knowing fuck all.

Nah mate, you have been dispensing wisdom here in regular doses for years.

Perhaps knowing that you know fuck all is wisdom.