<s>[INST] Hi, can you help me write my memoir? [/INST] I would be happy to help you write your memoir. This is indeed a sizeable task, and I will need a great deal of information in order to help you, along with some guidance in terms of the style and focus of the memoir.

Because of the limits to the length of queries and replies on Open Assistant, it will be best to break down our efforts to smaller segments, at most a few pages at a time.

Would you like to begin now? A good place to begin might be with a document that gives me a sense of your writing style, or the style that you wish to employ for the memoir. </s>\
<s>[INST] I'd like to write an experience type memoir that focuses on what I wanted to do, what I experienced along the way and the challenges I overcame to learn the lessons that define the person I've become.

I'd like to write it in a style similar to "When Breath Becomes Air" by Paul Kalanithi, where faced with a prognosis of terminal cancer at age 36, he wrote a memoir tackling the question: 

What makes life worth living? [/INST] Ok, so a rough outline could be:

- **a defining moment**
Where you realized what you wanted to do. Like Paul making his own diagnosis.

- **the challenges**
The journey with the challenges to overcome.

- **a turning point**
The best lessons are not obvious yet general, you wanted to do something, but maybe did something else or learn you what was that you actually needed?
For Paul the real question was not, *how long*, but rather, *how we live* to make life worth it.

But before going into the structure, what is the lesson that you want to teach?
What makes your life interesting for others? </s>