| Look man, it's fine to have irrational goals. Hume's guillotine never stopped dropping. But you have to remember that Forbes, the magazine, is run by a bunch of actual human beings. You can find out what criteria they use by asking them or observing their behavior or a million different ways. You can then craft yourself to fit that to a T. You very clearly have enough money to have the time to make a plan and execute it. Rather than unachievable, impressing a handful or so of people is absolutely table stakes. --- That being said, there is clearly something deeper going on here. I'm not gonna nail it first try and I'm sure if you get other comments they might make a stab at it too, but why do you want this? Like hard facts, most people do not give a teleporting fuck about that list. Even looking at it and seeing the faces of some schmucks I still - yep - don't give a shit. If you think it could open some specific career path or be a useful bit of leverage or whatever...ok? Your plan to get on the list of people "good at business" is effectively right now "be good at business". Seems like a Catch-22 in that for folks they list the publicity of the list probably wouldn't make or break them. Are you trying to impress some particular people? You need to not have this as a goal. It's only loosely correlated with being a business success which is in turn only loosely correlated with your happiness. > I feel like I am on the right track but missing something else entirely. Memento Mori dude. You have a fucked set of priorities |