our Reverse Bucket List is an accounting of all the experiences that shaped "who we are" not because they were items on a "life plan" Bucket List but because their importance is only visible in looking back: we wouldn't be "who we are" now without these specific experiences.

This is how the Reverse Bucket List works.

1. The experiences are largely co... See more

In his famous 2005 Stanford Commencement Address, Steve Jobs described how we cannot understand the connective threads of our lives without looking back--a sort of "rear view mirror" Bucket List that only reveals itself by studying our own past.

Here is how Jobs summarized it: "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them lo... See more