How To Actually Take Over The World: Thoughts So Far

I've been intent on taking over the world for some time now, but recently I've decided that it's really far too ambitious a goal and that I'd really just be setting myself up for disappointment if I carried on.

So I gave up trying to take over the world.

But today I was thinking about it more. It seems like really, taking over the world is too unambitious a goal. The bar is set too low. Why not dream of greater things? Goals are meant to be achieved, but they rarely are. But the key thing that a goal does is set the direction that you're going to go in. Usually you only make it 80% there, or 50%, or maybe just 30%. But you've gone in the direction of the goal and that's usually good enough.

If you want to take over the world actually then you need to make your goal to be something even more ambitious than taking over the world. Like "I'm going to take over the world and enslave every man, mouse and mosquito until we've colonized the galaxy, taking over whatever civilisations we happen to find along the way." If you go for that, you'd fail, but you might end up merely taking over the world.

But I really, honestly don't want control of the whole world, or even to have 'taken over the world' in any sense really, at all. But I want to get a lot done. So I'll re-establish my goal of taking over the world, with the secret expectation that I'll probably not make it, but I might end up doing a lot of awesome stuff that leads in that direction.

Same thing we do every night! Try to take over the world!

Peter