Writing a memoir is not the same as writing a book about your life.
While you’ll use anecdotes from your own life to tell a compelling story, the real star of your memoir is your reader.
And the real message isn’t, “This is why you should remember me,” but “This is something you can do, too.”
The theme of your memoir is the message, and it’s there not to put you on a pedestal but to help your reader.