I came up with an idea today: I think it would be useful to have a list of everything that a typical person ought to do. After all, there is quite a lot of stuff that a typical person ought to do; how else is a person supposed to remember it all?
Here's what I've come up with so far:
Health
Eating well.
Exercising regularly.
Mitigating common risks in everyday life (e.g. wearing a seat belt while driving).
Other everyday health stuff (e.g. not sitting down eight hours a day).
Visiting a doctor, a dentist, and (if necessary) an optometrist on a regular basis.
Being familiar with common health problems and what to do about them.
Being able to recognize medical emergencies and react appropriately.
Maintaining mental health (see also: pretty much this entire list).
Money
Educating oneself in career-related skills.
Getting a job and/or becoming self-employed.
Networking (see also: interpersonal interaction).
Investing one's savings appropriately.
Altruism
Donating to charity.
Volunteering for charity.
Doing favors for friends.
Interpersonal interaction
Developing and maintaining relationships with other people: friendly, romantic, family, others?
Discussion of useful topics.
Recreation
Hobbies, finding ways to enjoy yourself. (I'm not sure how to expand on this one.)
Responsibilities
Any responsibilities one has signed up for.
Productivity
Developing and maintaining one's ability to get stuff done. (Kinda vague, this one.)
Maintaining a list of what needs to be done.
Making good decisions about what to do. In particular, which of the items on this list to focus on and how to accomplish them.
Skills
Developing the skills one needs to carry out these tasks effectively, through education, experience, and discussion.
Anyone have any suggestions for additions or improvements?
Well, I somewhat agree. A list like this definitely isn't very useful all by itself. The utility I imagine is in figuring out where the gaps in your knowledge are, and what you need to do better. If my goal is to live life as well as possible, I don't just want to read a bunch of sequences; I also want to figure out which sequences I should read.
You say that you question the value of compressed information like this as a roadmap. Do you think that a different type of roadmap may be more useful, or that a roadmap may not be useful at all?
I came up with an idea today: I think it would be useful to have a list of everything that a typical person ought to do. After all, there is quite a lot of stuff that a typical person ought to do; how else is a person supposed to remember it all?
Here's what I've come up with so far:
Health
Money
Altruism
Interpersonal interaction
Recreation
Responsibilities
Productivity
Skills
Anyone have any suggestions for additions or improvements?
edit 1: some suggestions by Rain and aelephant