The goal was to groom him - to educate him in ways to predict what would please a person. Any person. To align with their taste. It was a tough task. And there were hundreds of people he was expected to meet with. Thousands even. He had to be better than the others.
They held an open competition to improve him. Open to the whole world. With a million dollars prize money to lure. They could afford it; were sure to reap tenfold from it. He was good already, but they intended to make him better at what he was meant to do. It was all done in a different world. The layman wasn't aware of it. Even if he heard of it, he wouldn't have made note. It all looked mundane on the outside. But there was this small world of select people where it created a furor. Set them rolling.
He was getting better. Enough to earn high praise. It was working. Every day he was making people happy with his work. People were agreeing that he was very good at knowing what they liked, loved even. But the prize is yet to be won. When it is, oh how I want to meet him!
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