I suppose I shouldn't try to put words in Ebbie's mouth, but I took the starting premise to be sort of as follows:

1. If you could be assured of success in ONE endeavor (and)
2. The endeavor was conceivably possible to a person,

then what would you decide to do?

If that was the idea, it knocks out "Create world peace" or "bring back all the extinct species of the world", or "redistribute world water supplies" and the like. But it would include such real-world possibilities (however remote) as:

1. Earn three million dollars in the commodity market in the next two years, (see what I mean by "however remote"?) or

2. Become a Grammy-winning recording star, or

3. Invent a one-pill cure for AIDS, or

4. Get elected President of the U.S. (Though why one would want that, I don't understand.)

My own such assured fail-safe project would be to become such a popular and admired folk singer that it would revive a wide public interest in folk songs again. (There we go with "however remote" again!)

Dave Oesterreich