How to Improve Your Chess Rating

I'm trying so hard not to make any rating goals just because I feel like chess is that really interesting thing where you get this continual actual number that tells you how good you are. But I've noticed my calculation isn't as strong as I want it to be. So I'm working through a book called the best move and they're like, all right, is white better the same or worse? Give me white's line. And Jim, I've got none of them right so far. None of the lines. That seems similar to what I've tried to do without the ratings. It doesn't work very well to have vague goals. It has to be concrete. If I if