Goal setting journal (March 2016)

If you have a goal worth setting then it goes here.

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4. GSJ Threads should run for no longer than 1 week, but you may set goals, subgoals and tasks for as distant into the future as you please.

5. No one is in charge of posting these threads. If it's time for a new thread, and you want a new thread, just create it.

If you have a goal worth setting then it goes here.

Notes for future GSJ posters:

1. Please add the 'gsj' tag.

2. Check if there is an active GSJ thread before posting a new one. (Immediately before; refresh the list-of-threads page before posting.)

3. GSJ Threads should be posted in Discussion, and not Main.

4. GSJ Threads should run for no longer than 1 week, but you may set goals, subgoals and tasks for as distant into the future as you please.

5. No one is in charge of posting these threads. If it's time for a new thread, and you want a new thread, just create it.

Explore counterphobic attitudes
Eat chocolate in the mornings
Ask for consultation with a rheumatologist
learn about Definitions and methods for analytic time horizon, discounting, and inflation.
Try to understand price cap regulation - price cap regulation wherein a cap is placed on the pre-tax cigarette manufacturers' price but not on the retail price that consumers face.
What can you learn from Julian Blanc?
Apply to become a US professor for lower barriers to entry and career capital

Competition for assistant professor positions in many fields is rapidly growing; the number of PhD graduates is rising, while the number of assistant professor openings remains roughly constant.[16] The opposite is true, however, in business disciplines, where the anticipated shortfall of business faculty may reach 2,400 openings by 2012.[17] The U.S. Occupation Outlook Handbook notes that a significant proportion of any growth in academic professor jobs will be due to "part-time and non tenure-track positions."[1] As of 2003, the average age at which scientists received tenure in the United States was 39, which can make it difficult for professors to balance professional and family obligations

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professors_in_the_United_States#Non-tenure-track_positions

So I'll be sure to go for a business PhD

special project: friday

My incompetent psychologist forgets to consult with her liaison psychiatrist about my MRI brain scan results. I have no idea what they indicate. It's been weeks now. The obvious thing to do is to find a different psychologist. However, I'm going to have to get that MRI result one way or another.
apply to finance jobs

I'd like to see follow-ups to this post. Specifically: For which of these did you already take action or see any results?

0gabrielrecc10y

I once TA'd a statistics class in which the chocolate/Nobel Prize thing was used as the prototypical example for why correlation doesn't equal causation. Scientific American describes some problems with the study and plausible alternative explanations. On the other hand, the cocoa may have some health benefits with respect to all-cause mortality, and the flavonoids likely have cognitive and other health benefits. On the other other hand, the sugar surely doesn't, and chocolate has a lot of aluminum and maybe lead -- the latter is definitely not good for your brain, and the former might not be. In any case, if you're going to take it up for health reasons, a spoonful of unsweetened cocoa in your oatmeal or coffee every morning is probably better than a Cadbury's egg.

5Fluttershy10y

Eating chocolate in the mornings isn't going to boost your intelligence, or make you any more likely to win a Nobel prize, though it might help you put on a few pounds if you don't adjust your daily calorie balance (calories burned minus calories eaten) after adding it into your diet. The article you linked to even concedes this point at the very end. ;)