<p>A great marriage or life partner
Prestige (well-known, respected, held in high regard)
Satisfying and fulfilling career (not necessarily lucrative)
High level of educational attainment
Solid friendships
Wealth (making lots of money)
Good health</p>
<p>5
2
4
7
1
6
3</p>
<p>(6) Prestige (well-known, respected, held in high regard)
(3) Wealth (making lots of money)
(4) Good health
(7) High level of educational attainment
(2) Satisfying and fulfilling career (not necessarily lucrative)
(1) A great marriage or life partner
(5) Solid friendships</p>
<p>(4) Good health
(2) Satisfying and fulfilling career (not necessarily lucrative)
(1) A great marriage or life partner
(5) Solid friendships
(7) High level of educational attainment
(6) Prestige (well-known, respected, held in high regard)
(3) Wealth (making lots of money)</p>
<p>This should have been a poll.</p>
<p>(4) good health
(1) great marriage/ life partner
(5) good friendships
(2) satisfying and fulfilling career
(7) high level of educational attainment
(3) wealth
(6) prestige</p>
<p>And that’s odd, because it seems like I spend an inordinate amount of time obsessing about my job security and I don’t have a girlfriend and don’t see any chance of having one in the future, either. But then I look at my dad and realize that he’s got ***tty job that he hates but a loving and stable home life, so he’s not totally lost. I guess this is my idealized list, or how I would like my life to turn out.</p>
<p>For my ‘real’ life, I would have to put # 2 (the fulfilling career) in second place right after good health, since I’ll probably end up alone and a workaholic. If I’m married to my job, I at least want to enjoy it…</p>
<p>And it would be interesting to survey the same people who have already posted in this thread twenty years down the road and see how their priorities have changed, if at all…</p>
<p>Maybe apathy is going to be a philosophy major who won’t mind his/her body decaying so long as he/she is still able to ponder the mysteries of life… or maybe apathy just has good health insurance. Who knows? But I do think it’s interesting someone would value the intellect over health.</p>
<p>I wanted to keep things simple (hence my other ranking), but I now feel that this is one of those things where an explanation is important.
Upon some reflection, I’ve come up with a more accurate reflection of my priorities.</p>
<p>**Good health<a href=“%5Bb%5DFinancial%20stability%5B/b%5D%20%5BI’ve%20had%20a%20taste%20of%20wealth%20and%20poverty,%20and%20neither%20was%20particularly%20great.%20I%20just%20want%20to%20be%20financially%20comfortable%20and%20able%20to%20buy%20the%20things%20I%20want,%20which%20is%20not%20much.%20I%20hate%20sports%20cars,%20for%20example.%20I%20don’t%20see%20the%20value%20of%20a%20flat-screen%20TV,%20super%20high-tech%20gadgets,%20super%20expensive%20clothes,%20etc.%5D”>/b</a>
**Great marriage/life partner<a href=“I%20think”>/b</a>
**Satisfying and fulfilling career <a href=“I%20figured%20I’d%20spend%20most%20of%20my%20days%20working,%20so%20my%20work%20should%20get%20me%20excited%20to%20get%20up%20in%20the%20morning.%20Part%20of%20my%20criteria%20for%20having%20a%20satisfying%20career%20is%20clicking%20with%20co-workers.”>/b</a>
**Solid friendships<a href=“if%20this%20said%20%22strong,%20lifelong%20friendships,%22%20it%20would%20be%20higher%20on%20the%20list.%20Nevertheless,%20most%20of%20my%20satisfying%20memories%20involve%20things%20I%20did%20with%20friends.”>/b</a>
**High level of educational attainment<a href=“I%20don’t%20think%20this%20should%20just%20be%20about%20getting%20a%20formal%20education.%20I%20definitely%20want%20to%20have%20an%20enlightened%20perspective%20on%20life,%20so%20I’ll%20do%20things%20to%20stimulate%20my%20mind%20for%20as%20long%20as%20I%20live.%20I%20also%20realize%20that%20the%20kind%20of%20education%20I%20get%20will%20color%20my%20color%20my%20career%20perspectives%20and%20friendships.%20%20However,%20I%20don’t%20want%20to%20end%20up%20like%20those%20people%20who%20flaunt%20their%20intelligence%20because%20they%20have%20little%20else%20to%20contribute.%20They’re%20fake,%20insecure,%20and%20annoying.”>/b</a>
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**Wealth<a href=“Like%20I%20said,%20I’ve%20had%20a%20taste%20of%20this,%20and%20it’s%20not%20that%20great%20really.%20One%20of%20the%20few%20benefits%20is%20traveling%20around%20the%20world%20but%20not%20much%20else”>/b</a>
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**Prestige<a href=“Being%20respected%20is%20different%20from%20having%20prestige,%20because%20prestige%20on%20a%20whole%20different%20level.%20I%20would%20like%20to%20be%20respected,%20of%20course,%20but%20I%20would%20hate%20to%20be%20in%20the%20limelight;%20once%20you’re%20in%20it,%20it’s%20hard%20to%20get%20out.%20I%20want%20to%20be%20independent,%20do%20my%20own%20thing,%20and%20that’s%20it.%20If%20popularity%20happens%20to%20be%20a%20byproduct%20of%20what%20I’ve%20done%20as%20a%20result%20of%20my%20career,%20I’ll%20tolerate%20it.%20But%20I%20won’t%20be%20unhappy%20without%20it.”>/b</a></p>
<p>Re: Herodotus’s comment regarding Apathy</p>
<p>Apathy, what if you become severaly mentally ill? Would you still value a high level of educational attainment over good health? Of course, both are extremely important aspects of one’s life, but again, I’m perplexed as to why you think good health is less important. I guess I’m just asking for your rationale.</p>
<p>(2) Satisfying and fulfilling career (not necessarily lucrative)
(4) Good health
(1) A great marriage or life partner
(5) Solid friendships
(3) Wealth (making lots of money)
(7) High level of educational attainment
(6) Prestige (well-known, respected, held in high regard)</p>
<p>Precisely my point. Did you read the book/see the movie ‘A Beautiful Mind’? It’s about a brilliant mathematician who eventually wins a Nobel Prize in economics, but he had to endure almost forty years of schizophrenia before that. He did, however, marry a good woman who loved and supported him throughout his decades of illness. I know it’s just speculation, but do you honestly think he would have had as extensive a recovery if he was isolated in some office somewhere, just his mind-- now totally demented-- and himself?</p>
<p>I think someone like that, so dependent upon their mental prowess, wouldn’t survive such an experience. So what I’m trying to say is, no matter how big a brain you are, apathy, don’t discount the basic need for human connectedness. Intellect is a thing of beauty, but there’s a whole other facet of life that, like it or not, you will have to deal with in some respect.</p>
<p>(1) Good health
(2) A great marriage or life partner
(3) Satisfying and fulfilling career (not necessarily lucrative)
(4) Solid friendships
(5) Wealth (making lots of money)
(6) High level of educational attainment
(7) Prestige (well-known, respected, held in high regard)</p>
<p>It was tough to order 3 & 4. Wasn’t sure which one should go before the other. They’re like tied :P.</p>
<p>(1) A great marriage or life partner
(5) Solid friendships
(4) Good health
(3) Wealth (making lots of money)
(7) High level of educational attainment
(6) Prestige (well-known, respected, held in high regard)
(2) Satisfying and fulfilling career (not necessarily lucrative)</p>
<p>(5) Solid friendships
(2) Satisfying and fulfilling career (not necessarily lucrative)
(4) Good health
(3) Wealth (making lots of money)
(6) Prestige (well-known, respected, held in high regard)
(1) A great marriage or life partner
(7) High level of educational attainment - I’m not sure if you meant learning in general or the amount of school or education received. (I took it as the latter.) If you meant having a high degree of knowledge, this would go MUCH higher, but I put this at the bottom b/c I don’t think the amt. of formal schooling necessarily equates to a greater learning experience.</p>
<p>1
3
6
4
2
5
7</p>
<p>(6) Prestige (well-known, respected, held in high regard)
(1) A great marriage or life partner
(3) Wealth (making lots of money)
(2) Satisfying and fulfilling career (not necessarily lucrative)
(4) Good health
(5) Solid friendships
(7) High level of educational attainment</p>
<p>(4) Good health
(7) High level of educational attainment
(2) Satisfying and fulfilling career (not necessarily lucrative)
(1) A great marriage or life partner
(3) Wealth (making lots of money)
(5) Solid friendships
(6) Prestige (well-known, respected, held in high regard)</p>
<p>(1) Good health
(2) High level of educational attainment
(3) Satisfying and fulfilling career (not necessarily lucrative)
(4) Solid friendships
(5)A great marriage or life partner
(6) Wealth (making lots of money)
(7) Prestige (well-known, respected, held in high regard)</p>
<p>I’m making my own rank. </p>
<p>(1) I want to make a difference in the world, whether good or bad. I want to be remembered, even if it only for a short while.
(2) Good health
(3) Remain happy throughout my life.
(4) Have great kids, with a hot wife of course.
(5) Have enough money to spoil my kids rotten, but not actually spoil them.
(6) Own a Major League Baseball team.<br>
(7) Have friends who are my friends because of me, not where I went to school or what I have.</p>