I believe in life it is important to have goals. And I also believe that everyone has them, even if unconsciously. For some it is goals such as having certain career ideas or wanting to have five children by a certain age. For example, I have a good friend who wants to have traveled to every continent by the time he's 30.<\/p>\n
For me, I have decided somehow, and this sounds terribly cheesy, do-gooder and naive, to leave a positive footprint on this world.
\nSomething that helps humanity as much as possible and that they will remember even when I'm no longer there.
\nIdeally, of course, this would be all of humanity, or approximately so.
\nFor example, almost everyone knows Einstein and his achievements. Of course, I don't want to compare myself to Einstein here and it's very likely that not nearly as many people will remember me or my actions as they do this gentleman. But he and his achievements are a good example or role model.<\/p>\n
As far as my goal is concerned, there are a few companies that go in a similar direction with their mission statements as I would like to. A company's mission statement describes the framework conditions under which they want to achieve their goals and, above all, what their actual goal is.<\/p>\n
In Google's mission statement, for example, you can find the sentence "Google's goal is to organize the world's information and make it accessible and usable for everyone at all times."
\nWikipedia's mission statement goes in a similar direction "The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and encourage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to effectively and distribute worldwide...\u201d<\/p>\n
Both companies have made it their mission to distribute knowledge. I think that's a good idea.
\nBut at the same time I have to say that there is one aspect that is being neglected.
\nThere are situations where it is not enough just to have this knowledge available. It is also important to know how to use it.<\/p>\n