If you desire to be better you must be unhappy with the way you are at this very moment
Further, there is no objective or measurable “best” that you can possibly be. Thus you’ll be forever searching for it, and never satisfied
Fortunately, Alan Watts has a way out:
When self improvement leads to misery <thread>
This side of twitter can get a bit carried away at times.
We need to take a step back and realise what it actually means to seek self improvement. 
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“You are, just what you are. And once you have accepted that situation, you have an enormous amount of energy available to do things that can be done. And everybody else looking at you from an external point of view will say, ‘My god, how much so-and-so has improved.'”
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Forgive yourself for your past. Accept how you are at present. And now, given this extra mental energy, you can start building a life to be proud of.
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