What is the key to achieving my three career goals?

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The discussion centers on aspirations to study brain function and develop artificial intelligence, alongside a desire to create accessible spacecraft for the general public, making space travel as commonplace as car travel. The individual expresses a reluctance to pursue aerospace studies and seeks guidance on how to achieve these ambitious goals. There is an acknowledgment that significant achievements require extensive preparation and hard work, suggesting the need for focus on one primary career goal to make substantial progress. The conversation emphasizes the importance of assembling a dedicated team and the commitment necessary to realize these innovative ideas.
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I have come to these conclusions:

I want to study how the brain works and functions. And use such information to make an artificial intelligent brain(synthetic). Something like that.

I want to help develop a spacecraft that will be available to the average person such as a car is. So that space travel would be very popular and freaking awesome. I don't feel like studying aerospace for damn sure.

I would like to run a very large company.

Where do I go, who shall I know, what will I do, what really lays ahead?

I know the Xproject already made that space craft. I just wish I could assemble a team and do it.

whatever
 
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physicscrap said:
I want to help develop a spacecraft that will be available to the average person such as a car is. So that space travel would be very popular and freaking awesome. I don't feel like studying aerospace for damn sure.

I assume you already realize this, but I'll say it anyway: with very rare exceptions substantial achievements require substantial preparation and a great deal of hard work. Ask almost anyone who is noted for achievement in almost any area of human endeavour and I predict they will tell you the same thing.

At some point you will probably need to choose one of these three career goals and focus on pursuing that one goal, with suitable contributions of blood, sweat, and tears.
 
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