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When I would teach Motivation to my college classes, I would start off by asking the students to point at Balaclava. Most would give me a quizzical stare, while others would start point around in random locations. While Balaclava is an obscure hamlet in the area I was born, it also can also be found in various parts of the world including Crimea, England, Australia, Jamaica, New Zealand and a few places in Canada. My intent was not to actually point at the place but to go through the exercise of pointing out a location. Not only do you need to know where it is, but you also need to know where you are. Anyone reading this can do this exercise ... think of a place at some distance from you - and point at it. This requires two things: knowing where the place is; knowing where you are in relation to that place.
I know for instance that Montreal is found in eastern Canada. In order to point toward it, I also need to know where I am in relation to Montreal but also I need to know where I am situated in the room that I am in with regard to the direction. Am I facing the correct direction or am I facing away.
This applies to anything goal that you might have. In the case of the Longevity Project, one needs to state what increasing your longevity means. There is a story about how Satan tricked people when they asked to live longer. In one case a man asked to live longer. While he lived longer he became more decrepit. Finally when he died, he was blind, deaf and bed-ridden. A second man seeing the folly asked for eternal youth. He got what he asked for he lived a long time with the same vigour and the beauty of youth. Unfortunately his mind had failed and he became childlike.