I hear this from time to time and my own response to it is "that'd work about as well as a reality show based on your life".
I think it's the best way to put it: A biography and reality TV cherry pick the most interesting parts of a person's life. I have had some interesting things happen to me -- some would fit well in a Reality TV show, others would fit well in a biography of successes (the failures fitting into the Reality TV space). We're not interested in biographies about average people -- yes, average people always have a few stories that are worth hearing/sharing, but rarely have a life that is so filled with stories as to warrant someone else to want to catalogue them. Much like if you put a bunch of cameras in my house and filmed for a year you might end up with minutes of Reality TV worthy entertainment, if you did a biography of a mediocre person, you'd have no market (itself, mediocre). Heck, I'd be willing to bet that the majority of the time spent awake in the most interesting peoples' lives ends up being pretty mediocre, so it's something everyone has knowledge of/experience with and probably not something worthy of "fun time".
Aside from nobody wanting to buy it, it'd be hard to give away. Of the various reasons I have for reading and writing, using that skill to "do something I experience with the vast majority of my existence -- reading mail, preparing food, writing boier-plate, fixing various broken thing around the house -- and something, at that, which I don't particularly enjoy" is going to land very low on a long to-do list :) My house will become self-aware before I get to that task.
I think it's the best way to put it: A biography and reality TV cherry pick the most interesting parts of a person's life. I have had some interesting things happen to me -- some would fit well in a Reality TV show, others would fit well in a biography of successes (the failures fitting into the Reality TV space). We're not interested in biographies about average people -- yes, average people always have a few stories that are worth hearing/sharing, but rarely have a life that is so filled with stories as to warrant someone else to want to catalogue them. Much like if you put a bunch of cameras in my house and filmed for a year you might end up with minutes of Reality TV worthy entertainment, if you did a biography of a mediocre person, you'd have no market (itself, mediocre). Heck, I'd be willing to bet that the majority of the time spent awake in the most interesting peoples' lives ends up being pretty mediocre, so it's something everyone has knowledge of/experience with and probably not something worthy of "fun time".
Aside from nobody wanting to buy it, it'd be hard to give away. Of the various reasons I have for reading and writing, using that skill to "do something I experience with the vast majority of my existence -- reading mail, preparing food, writing boier-plate, fixing various broken thing around the house -- and something, at that, which I don't particularly enjoy" is going to land very low on a long to-do list :) My house will become self-aware before I get to that task.