Passion
I love beauty...I'm determined to add beauty to the world before I die. I love beautiful music and I'm working my way through twentieth century jazz, one recording at a time. I love capturing beauty with pencils, markers, cameras, and laptops. I'm doing 43 things . Some of them I'll finish tomorrow, some of them will take an entire lifetime.
Learning
I love learning. I have no illusions about my intelligence. I know that I'm not a lot smarter than average, but that's not the point. I love learning for the sheer joy of stretching my mind to hold new ideas. I'm constantly searching for new gems of knowledge to pocket and bring home to my sagging shelves. I read analytic philosophy and social science for the hell of it. Life is too short to stop learning for even a second. The world is a tremendously rich place for a curious person who is not bashful about his curiosity.Work
Life is also too short not to find work that you love. I wait tables and sing jazz at an Italian restaurant. I also work as a concierge in an Apple retail store. My main career aspiration is to become a college professor. I'm not in a huge hurry to do this, but it is something I must check off before I die. I plan to train myself into a decent cognitive neuroscientist, then spend a few dozen years teaching students about neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and the philosophy of mind.