Raymond Arnold:
> This is interesting as a more visceral and simple example of "what could you accomplish if you just picked a thing and stuck with it."
> At 16, this guy decided to transform a desert sandbar near his home into a forest. Each day he planted another tree. 30 years later he'd turned the desert sandbar into a forest bigger than Central Park.
> Making a forest may not be the thing you want to do, but I think it sets a useful lower bar for thing-you-can-do-with-your-life. You don't need radically rare skills or talents to do it. You just need to decide to. [edit: I guess you also need a sandbar]
> Is whatever you're planning on doing with the next 30 years of your life going to be at least as cool as building a forest bigger than Central Park?
