John Goddard

by Mike Simonek on Mar 3, 2008 3:33 PM CST Comment 38 comments

Any you think you have accomplished a lot in life! Apparently this dude wrote a list when he was 15 of things he would like to accomplish in life. It is truly amazing how many he has done, and the list in itself is very extensive.

http://www.johngoddard.info/life_list.htm

I think the only thing I had in mind when I was 15 was making the sports teams, and trying to get laid (wasn't real good at either).

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My self-esteem just plummeted

-Beat Rock Band Drums on Hard
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For the second year in a row, the Academy gets it right. That means next year is going to be UGLY.

by TheBZA on Mar 3, 2008 3:47 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Just lost the remaining of my self-esteem

Haven't finished Vasoline on hard yet... :-(

by Ph3 on Mar 3, 2008 4:42 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Hmmm...

I wish I had the maturity at 15 to come up with a list of goals like that. However, my list would be vastly different. Many of the things on his list I would have no interest in.

However, visiting all MLB parks and NFL stadiums would have been something on my list.

by northtexan95 on Mar 3, 2008 4:01 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

I could not

have composed such a list when I was 15. No way.

'At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money and we don't have any.' Erk Russell / Georgia Southern

by Ed Coffin on Mar 3, 2008 4:03 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

No doubt

I was to busy trying to get all the Rangers in my Topps cards, listening to Chicago and trying to get laid.

Get your weeds killed with the Weed Terminator, Inc.

by boomer1 on Mar 3, 2008 4:14 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

The last item on your list

would have been about all that made my list at that age.

"We should have bombed it (Auschwitz)"-President Bush

by DJCahill on Mar 3, 2008 4:51 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Finances

Is this guy independently wealthy or something? The average person (no matter how ambitious he/she may be) could not afford to do these things.

by chief on Mar 3, 2008 4:44 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

He'spretty well off

And not a "kid". He's married, with five children. Highly educated, author of a couple of high volume books, etc.

http://www.johngoddard.info/bio.htm

'At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money and we don't have any.' Erk Russell / Georgia Southern

by Ed Coffin on Mar 3, 2008 10:15 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

isnt he like

80 or something? I dont think he is gonna finish the list.

"We should have bombed it (Auschwitz)"-President Bush

by DJCahill on Mar 3, 2008 11:02 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Unless that photo on his bio

Is deliberately unflattering, he's gaining on me if not past. I think the guy had an early predisposition, like an X-games mentality and a National Geographic approach to actually doing his list. He may be about done.

'At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money and we don't have any.' Erk Russell / Georgia Southern

by Ed Coffin on Mar 4, 2008 12:10 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I can't imagine

he's getting to the top of Everest if he hasn't done so.

"We should have bombed it (Auschwitz)"-President Bush

by DJCahill on Mar 4, 2008 5:33 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Sounds like

He is rich or has rich parents
Is sponsored to do these things
A virgin
If 3 is not true, then just a huge D-bag.

Nobody likes people like this.

by SaltyGoesYard on Mar 3, 2008 5:14 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

The kid is smart...

but as others have stated he must be some richy-bitch kid.

Secondly, how do you not have the Acropolis in Athens, Coliseum in Rome, Pyramids in Giza, and Machu Pichu not on that list...stupid kid...-1.

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates

by slc ranger on Mar 3, 2008 5:28 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Meh...

didn't see retrace travels of Alexander the Great and Marco Polo...that covers 3 of those...oh well.

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates

by slc ranger on Mar 3, 2008 5:34 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

The pyramids in Giza

I went when I was about 11 or 12 and didn't get the fascination at all. Of course five minutes in to it, I fainted due to the heat. But that's beside the point :) Everyone I was with said it was amazing but I spent the day back at the hotel like a pussy. Just because I couldn't take a little heat. Turned out I had low glucose levels. Changed my rigorous 10 year old diet that consisted of hot dogs, Skittles and string cheese, and I haven't had a problem since. I'm pissed about what happened to this day.

LSB hates them some Mench.

by sprite on Mar 3, 2008 7:12 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Skittles (berry to be precise)...

should be a staple of everyone's diet. I think they put crack in those damn things.

So any plans to go back? That has to be on my top 5 places to see before I die.

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates

by slc ranger on Mar 3, 2008 7:30 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

x

Yeah, I should be going next summer. 21st birthday present. Looking forward to that, and, if I go, I'm going to try a hookah and see how that goes.

LSB hates them some Mench.

by sprite on Mar 3, 2008 7:52 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

hookahs are pretty sweet

there's a place here in Dallas, on Greenville, called Al Amir that is a pretty cool hookah bar...they also have belly dancers on certain nights, and serve food

"Look at our current situation with that camel fu#%er over in Iraq. Pacifism is not something to hide behind."

by Walter Sobchak on Mar 3, 2008 10:00 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

so basically

this kid is Miles...

"Look at our current situation with that camel fu#%er over in Iraq. Pacifism is not something to hide behind."

by Walter Sobchak on Mar 3, 2008 10:00 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Anyone getting MLB 2k8?

"I think it's clear that he (Michael Young) made sure that the story (CJ's) got out. " - mjh

by Longhorn on Mar 3, 2008 5:38 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Yes

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates

by slc ranger on Mar 3, 2008 5:40 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Actually no...

it is "MLB 08 The Show" that I will be purchasing.

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates

by slc ranger on Mar 3, 2008 6:02 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I

get The Show tomorrow and will probably end of with 2K8 as well. Last year I bought both, but can;t remember which one I liked best. After a while when I stop playing the ps3 games anymore, I just sell them on ebay, so I do not have either of the 07 versions anymore.

The Texas Rangers rounded the bases at a dizzying pace

by fsujon on Mar 3, 2008 10:54 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I have MLB '06 the Show...

And I have not needed another baseball game since, thanks to it's "edit player" feature. I can keep everyone's capabilites up-to-date, based on how well they're doing and create new players (e.g., Ryan Braun Jacoby Elsbury) as needed. Plus, I love the graphics, and Matt Vasgerian's commentary might be the best I have ever seen on a videogame.

Have they added any new features to the '08 version that are so cool I have to go buy it? I refuse to buy any other games that do not have the "player editor" feature.

"The only thing Gerald Laird can beat me at is number of glazed donuts eaten in 10 minutes" - Miles

by lonestarJon on Mar 4, 2008 1:37 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

MLB 2K8

I was curious about this myself. I've been hearing a lot of hype about the new features, but have yet to find a Review for the 360 version yet.

For the second year in a row, the Academy gets it right. That means next year is going to be UGLY.

by TheBZA on Mar 3, 2008 6:11 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Yes...and

Yes...

I'd love for part of the "new look" to be a return to the red uniforms of the 1990s. - Ian Kinsler

by ortonius on Mar 3, 2008 8:32 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

2k8 vs the show

I've never owned a baseball game (at least not in a long time). Which one of these is the best?

Just got done reading a review for The Show for PS3, and it sounded pretty good.

by Chris Hanes on Mar 3, 2008 8:43 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

the flaw in this

i am such a different person than I was at 15 and I the things that I thought were cool then are completely not cool now.

Some people are saying he's very mature and while I admit, those goals are all fairly reasonable to have at later ages. But, as an example, what if later in your life, you just didn't care about mountain climbing? Would you still make yourself beholden to your dreams that you had 10 years ago after seeing a movie or reading a book about it?

These lists are I guess a good htingso that you never become complacent in life but I'm not beating myself up over not following through the dreams I had when I was 15.

I do know people that make lists like these every year to kind of appraise what their dreams are and how they've changed. certainly, they don't write the goals down in stone.

by ab03 on Mar 3, 2008 6:18 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Where's the flaw?

Because he might not accomplish all of them? Because his interests may change, that would make him flawed?

Lastly, why do you care about other people's goal-setting in the first place?

2/26/08 R.I.P. The BGL ... out.

by Chase Irwin on Mar 3, 2008 7:25 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

i'm sorry

i thought this was a thread commenting about this guy's goal setting

and i was commenting in general about the flaw in goal setting. and the flaw is what you pointed out, that interests change. as i understand it, the point of goal setting is to make a goal and stick to it, no matter what (at least in this guy's case).

i guess i wasn't clear.

by ab03 on Mar 4, 2008 1:49 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Does that diminish anything?

I'm just perplexed at how you can judge whether his goal-setting is worthy or flawed.

As for the "why do you care?" question, I was wondering why the specific details would ever matter to you, and why you feel compelled to assess them.

2/26/08 R.I.P. The BGL ... out.

by Chase Irwin on Mar 4, 2008 2:03 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

what are you talking about

1)i'm not the first person in this thread to assess his goals - some people thought the goals were mature, some people thought they were lofty. And I have a compulsion because I made a 5 line comment on a thread?

2)i'm really not making a commentary on his goals specifically. i'm talking about goal setting in general. he's supposed to be a motivational speaker. I bet he goes around telling people that if you set your mind to do something, you can accomplish it if you stay focused. i'm critiquing the notion that you should set goals for yourself at 15 and follow through with them, using his goals as an example of how you might not be interested in the same things at 15 as you are at 30, or 45

3)where did I say it diminished anything? all i'm saying is that people shouldn't beat themselves up over not following through on goals they had when they were 15.

by ab03 on Mar 4, 2008 8:05 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Framing your opinion as fact

is what's throwing me off. But you tend to do that a lot, anyway.

Who cares if you're not interested in the same things later, goal-setting is admirable, regardless of whether you achieve them all or not. It's the principle of striving to do better.

People should beat themselves up over whatever they feel like.

2/26/08 R.I.P. The BGL ... out.

by Chase Irwin on Mar 4, 2008 11:32 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs