My Impossible List

Throughout my short life thus far, I’ve always felt like I haven’t reached my potential.  Failure does awaken my competitive spirit and temporarily drives me to new heights.  However, this motivation is fleeting and as soon as the pain of defeat is no longer freshly imprinted in my mind, I take my foot off the pedal.

Thus, I have decided to take the bold move of posting my impossible list.    My inspiration for this came from Impossible HQ.  The impossible list is not the same thing as a bucket list.  Back in my senior year of high school, bucket lists were all the craze.  Everyone wanted to do so many things before they graduated or before they died.  I thought this was stupid and saved my time and money by staying home.

The impossible list is a challenge.  The impossible list is the list of worthwhile things which I once thought were impossible to accomplish.  It is a growing, adapting list that will push me to accomplish new things and improve myself to reach my potential.  Hell, I’m hoping it will help me surpass the artificial construct that I believe to be my potential.

Without further ado, here is the list broken down into three categories.

Life:
30+ Days of Cold Showers(August 19, 2013 - October 4, 2013)
365 Days of Cold Showers(May 5, 2014 - in progress)
Start a business
Get a patent
Write and publish a book
Set a world record
Win a national competition (May 19, 2012)
Start my own website/blog
Win a Nobel Prize

Fitness:
100 push-ups in one set
200 curl-ups in one set
50 pull-ups in one set
Dunk a basketball
Run a Spartan Race
Run a 5k
Run a 10k
Run a Half Marathon
Run a Marathon
Run a Triathlon
Run an Iron Man Triathlon
Master the salmon ladder
Learn parkour and make a video
Win the American Ninja Warrior Competition

Travel:
Visit All 7 Continents (North America, Asia)
Go to the airport and buy a ticket without knowing where I’m going
Visit all 50 states

By the time I am a senior (in college not a senior citizen hopefully), I intend to look back at all the “impossible” things that I have crossed off my list.  Please leave suggestions, possible additions to my list, and cries of outrage in the comments below.

The Original Impossible List

Comments

[David]

What happened to joining the NBA?

[Yubo]

what national competition did you win?

Also 100 pullups << 50 pullups. I don't know if you were trying to get goals of comparable difficulty?...

[Ω]

That's too easy to be on my impossible list. I'm going to be a 2015 Early Entrant to the NBA draft. The Lakers are tanking for one more year to get their next Magic Johnson.

[Ω]

I thought 100 pushups were about equal to 25 pullups in terms of difficulty but the marginal benefit of getting to 50 pullups is much higher than increasing the number of pushups for when I compete in the American Ninja Competition in 2017.

[Ω]

Helicopters event of Science Olympiad