A goodish person absolutely still makes mistakes.

一个善的人无疑仍会犯错误。

As a goodish person, I'm making them all the time.

作为一个善的人，我常常都会犯错误。

But as a goodish person, I'm trying to learn from them, own them.

但作为一个善人，我试图从错误中学习，解决问题。

As a goodish person, in fact, I become better at noticing my own mistakes.

作为一个善的人，事实上，我变更善于发现自己的错误。

Obviously you play B. John and you hope for great things, not just goodish things.

显然，你扮演 B. John，你希伟大的事情，而不仅仅是美好的事情。

That's 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a book—something in which the reader can get happily lost, if the tale is done well and stays fresh.

三个月就有大概十八万字，作为一本书长度恰好——如果小说写好，故事还很鲜活的话，读者可以享受迷失其中的过程。

So what I've been thinking about is what if we were to just forget about being good people, just let it go, and instead, set a higher standard, a higher standard of being a goodish person?

如果我们忘记做一个好人会怎样？就这么随它去，反之，设立一个更高的标准，一个善人的更高标准？