It's not about a better book, it's about a book, just the next book. Improve because you learned, do it because you want to. If you do that, you won't have to worry about the next goal, because there never was a goal, just a love of the process.

Right. Anyone can want to be great author, but only a great author wants to write.

You can't pursue greatness, it's just smoke that slips through your fingers. You have to pursue the very action itself, cross out the ends and chase after the means. Don't be a great author, write a story instead.

What kind of person would put in all the work required to be liked by everyone?

Occationally I'll say to someone that there's only one type of person that everyone likes.

Nah, it's really easy. I had a bad case of depression that left me unable to drive without fear of wrecking, let alone doing anything else, and I gained forty pounds in that time, a course of two years. Lost the weight in about three months. It's really easy. Wealth has nothing to do with it, you even said yourself that you're paying people to select your food for you. It should be of no surprise that selecting the right food for you is not their priority, making money is. Cooking is cheap (the cheapest possible option), it's easy, and you can have absolute control of what you eat.

Want to eat broccoli and mushrooms? Then you cook broccoli and mushrooms. Want to eat a salad with chicken and whatever vegetables you like? Then you make that salad. No preservatives, no added sugars. If you're having a problem finding something to stick to, cut out sugar and starches (bread, rice, etc). That's an easy diet to work around, and it's the one I typically use whenever I want to lose some weight.

Yeah, depression is pretty much the only thing holding me back at this point. One day I'm gonna hit the right cobcoction of meds, and I'll be flying to tge damn moon.

People don't want to cook. It really just comes down to that. They want other people to make their food for them, and because of that the responsibility of maintaining a healthy diet is shifted onto a third party that doesn't care and was never meant to care if you're fat. People just need to cook man, it's so easy, and fun, and rewarding, and you can actually control what you put in your body. Of course, mental illness can screw things up too. When the brain turns against you, there isn't much you can do.

Teach empathy to your kids (don't go overboard, just make sure they can empathize), and don't overinflate their egos. I'm not quite a narcissist, but pretty damn close, and those two things stand out to me. Also, spend time with your kids, let them see other people, like you, as living/breathing/thinking people, not just some distant other thing. I don't know how to explain it, but I don't see myself as human, I'm some seperate kind of thing, and that's probably something you want to avoid. Could just be a combination of the two things listed above (empathy and ego), could be more to it.