What goal(s) do you wish to achieve before you die?

[G.W.K]

Just wondering:

What do you want to achieve before you die? Is there any particular goals/targets that you want to complete in your life? I want to be able to be able to pick up sheet music and just play it...to be able to play anything I want (like those really professional pianists can).

I'm sure there'll be other achievments I want to complete, but that's enough for now! Tell us yours.

G.W.K

[db05]

To graduate as a piano major and work as a piano and guitar teacher.

[healdie]

to start the British empire up again

but on a more serious note I would like conduct and compose professionaly

[richard black]

To stay alive to the end.

[thalbergmad]

I have always wanted to attend a Klu Klux Klan meeting dressed as Al Jolson.

Thal

[morningstar]

To travel outside of Australia. To outlive my parents. To think of extra things to write about here.

[pianowolfi]

To be ready to die.

[ahinton]

I have always wanted to attend a Klu Klux Klan meeting dressed as Al Jolson.

That's what I like; real hard-nosed ambition! But then standing in front of the West-East Divan orchestra as a Jew conducting Wagner in Israel is no poor substitute, perhaps; OK, so you happen not to be Daniel Barenboim, but then on the other hand Daniel Barenboim doesn't play the banjo, so...

Best,

Alistair

[G.W.K]

That's what I like; real hard-nosed ambition! But then standing in front of the West-East Divan orchestra as a Jew conducting Wagner in Israel is no poor substitute, perhaps; OK, so you happen not to be Daniel Barenboim, but then on the other hand Daniel Barenboim doesn't play the banjo, so...

Best,

Alistair

And your ambition/goal is...?

G.W.K

[ahinton]

And your ambition/goal is...?

I am under no obligation to declare it, but were I to do so it would be of little obvious general interest in principle, I imagine - for it is merely to complete the piece on which I am currently working to the best of my ability and that the end result will have been worth the effort...

Best,

Alistair

[G.W.K]

I am under no obligation to declare it, but were I to do so it would be of little obvious general interest in principle, I imagine...

We're not going to laugh at you Alistair. If you announced you want to run up and down Prince's Street in Edinburgh in the nude and in broad daylight, we would accept your ambition. After laughing our heads off first...

G.W.K

[ahinton]

We're not going to laugh at you Alistair.

Although I have less than no idea who "we" may be in the present context, I have no reaon to suppose that the said "we" would do any such thing...

If you announced you want to run up and down Prince's Street in Edinburgh in the nude and in broad daylight, we would accept your ambition.

But I haven't announced any such thing, nor am I likely to, so what is your point (if any)?

After laughing our heads off first...

I might (or might not) even laugh my own off had I so much as the faintest idea what you might be trying to talk about...

Best,

Alistair

[G.W.K]

Although I have less than no idea who "we" may be in the present context, I have no reaon to suppose that the said "we" would do any such thing...

By "we" I was generalising the other members and myself on PianoStreet Forum.

But I haven't announced any such thing, nor am I likely to, so what is your point (if any)?

I was using that as an example.

I might (or might not) even laugh my own off had I so much as the faintest idea what you might be trying to talk about...

Again, an example. I wish you would try to observe what I may be talking about before asking pointless questions, because I am typing quite coherently, I think.

G.W.K

[ahinton]

By "we" I was generalising the other members and myself on PianoStreet Forum.

OK - and so your point is...?

I was using that as an example.

Of what?

Again, an example. I wish you would try to observe what I may be talking about before asking pointless questions, because I am typing quite coherently, I think.

If you gave any of us any idea of what it is about which you claim to be typing coherently, "we" might have some idea how, if at all, to respond; "examples" of nothing by definition exemplify nothing.

Best,

Alistair

[richard black]

I've just found another goal - to type as fast as Alistair and G.W.K. I mean, I log on to the site, post a couple of single-sentence replies, scan the new posts, and they've contributed another several hundred words. And I thought I was a quick typist!

[G.W.K]

Can we get back on topic? I'll argue with you another day Alistair, lol.

G.W.K

[ahinton]

I've just found another goal - to type as fast as Alistair and G.W.K. I mean, I log on to the site, post a couple of single-sentence replies, scan the new posts, and they've contributed another several hundred words. And I thought I was a quick typist!

That's probably an own goal, Richard; not one to which you'd want to aspire any more than I would!

Best,

Alistair

[ahinton]

Can we get back on topic? I'll argue with you another day Alistair, lol.

I'm not especially off-topic - and you don't need to do anything of the kind, let me assure you...

Best,.

Alistair

[G.W.K]

I've just found another goal - to type as fast as Alistair and G.W.K. I mean, I log on to the site, post a couple of single-sentence replies, scan the new posts, and they've contributed another several hundred words. And I thought I was a quick typist!

Yeah, it's just a talent I have. However, I don't usually write as in-depth replies as Alistair sometimes - no, usually - does.

G.W.K

[ahinton]

Yeah, it's just a talent I have. However, I don't usually write as in-depth replies as Alistair sometimes - no, usually - does.

I'm far from certain about "in-depth" on this occasion (although at the same time I don't think that I've gotten myself out of my depth here either), but I have at least answered the question posed in the thread topic with a reasonable degree of honesty...

Best,

Alistair

[G.W.K]

...but I have at least answered the question posed in the thread topic with a reasonable degree of honesty...

I would disagree. But don't contradict me, just let us get back on topic.

G.W.K

[ahinton]

I would disagree. But don't contradict me, just let us get back on topic.

Well, you could perhaps start doing so by telling us all why you claim to disagree with this; I state a goal in accordance with the thread topic and you disagree with my statement, so you might care to elaborate upon why this is apparently so.

Best,

Alistair

[thalbergmad]

To be ready to die.

In your Country, that is probably not very difficult.

Have you got a suicide clinic in your town??

Thal

[tds]

To think of extra things to write about here.

will you be my disciple? 

[pianowolfi]

In your Country, that is probably not very difficult.

Have you got a suicide clinic in your town??

Thal

lolz me is not talking about this, it's more a philosophical thing. ready to die means that at the moment when you will die you look back to your life and you are happy with your achievements.

[thalbergmad]

Yes Wolfi, thinking about it that is a something to achieve.

To be on your deathbed and to be able to look back with some satisfaction must be a comfort.

Not if you are run over and don't have time to think though.

Thal

[pianochick93]

I'd like to stay with my dance partner and reach a high level of competition.

[loonbohol]

Compose more than 399 compositions. Write more than 50 novels.....
Make more than 250 patents and win the Nobel prize

I want to make my poor country proud that at least they have a polymath who was born.....
The last polymath lived more than a hundred years ago and his name was Goethe

If you do not know what a Polymath is the go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymath

[richard black]

The last polymath lived more than a hundred years ago and his name was Goethe

Polymaths are probably rarer that they used to be, simply because there's now so much more to learn in each field, but there are still plenty of them around. Perhaps they aren't as famous as they used to be either - I can't think of any very well-known examples, though there's always Jonathan Miller (medical doctor and opera director). One of the most striking examples I've come across was the late and much-lamented Charles Hopkins, who apart from being a fine pianist was an expert linguist, a crossword setter, a very good chef and probably more besides.

[db05]

I want to make my poor country proud that at least they have a polymath who was born.....
The last polymath lived more than a hundred years ago and his name was Goethe

loon, don't you consider Jose Rizal a polymath?

[ahinton]

Polymaths are probably rarer that they used to be, simply because there's now so much more to learn in each field, but there are still plenty of them around. Perhaps they aren't as famous as they used to be either - I can't think of any very well-known examples, though there's always Jonathan Miller (medical doctor and opera director). One of the most striking examples I've come across was the late and much-lamented Charles Hopkins, who apart from being a fine pianist was an expert linguist, a crossword setter, a very good chef and probably more besides.

I can from experience and with confidence substitute "undoubtedly" for your "probably"; how he achieved all those things that he did is quite beyond me - a polymath's polymath par excellence if ever there was one.

Then there's Fredrik Ullén, pianist and neuroscientist...

Best,

Alistair

[loonbohol]

loon, don't you consider Jose Rizal a polymath?

Oh yeah! THank you for reminding me

[concerto_love]

To play K448 with cai.. 

[aewanko]

Get out of school and be a musician, duh.

[michel dvorsky]

Get out of school and be a musician, duh.

In your case, this would be a very big mistake.

[shinerl]

In your case, this would be a very big mistake.

You can be a geisha

[aewanko]

In your case, this would be a very big mistake.

And why so?

[timothy42b]

Goals before I die:

1.  Achieve immortality.  (well it won't do much after, will it?)
2.  Win Nobel prize.
3.  Win Olympic gold medal. 
4.  Clip Old English Sheepdog to poodle shape, take to prestigious dog show like the Westminster.
5.  Get job in jigsaw puzzle factory, switch one piece from each puzzle.
6.  Drop superball from tall building. 
7.  Complete double blind testing proving definitively humans cannot distinguish the sound of yellow brass and red brass trombone bells. 
8.  Convince just one musician anywhere in the world that the results of Item 7 apply to him/her. 

[tompilk]

i was asked this in the street about a week ago by some woman doing a questionnaire... i refused to answer.

[thalbergmad]

i was asked this in the street about a week ago by some woman doing a questionnaire... i refused to answer.

Probably wise not to answer.

Owning a pair of Hamelins underpants might have seemed a little strange.

Thal

[tompilk]

hahaha. that actually made me laugh out loud...
The woman's other two questions she asked me were:

What do you think people's biggest worries are?
What would people do if that was resolved?

Those are ridiculously deep questions to be asked on the street...