>there are two kinds of authors: those who like to write and those who like to have written. I like this a lot. It succinctly points to an thought that's been

>there are two kinds of authors: those who like to write and those who like to have written. I like this a lot. It succinctly points to an thought that's been at the forefront of my mind lately. It seems to align with Daniel Kahneman's work about our two versions of our "self": an experiencing self (the writer) and the remembering self (the one who has written). As you allude, sometimes those two may not align in terms of what brings them happiness or fulfillment. It makes me think I should be working to make sure I'm the one who optimizes for the experiencing self rather than the remembering self. Besides the fact that we spend much more time "experiencing" life than "remembering" it, the latter seems too often correlated with things outside our direct control like status etc.