Triangle

It's been mentioned before in this thread in passing but it's really simple how to like reading: read books you like reading. If the only books you ever read are what public school shoves down your throat then of course you won't like reading. Try the following books: Ender's Game and its sequels, The Wheel of Time series, the Pendragon series, The Chronicles of Narnia series, The Lord of the Rings, and A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels. If you don't like any of those, I'm sure there's SOMEthing out there you would like to read.

I try to stay informed about things because the more I find out about the world the more I realize that public school was nothing but a bunch of lies. But sometimes I just have to stop keeping up with the news because of the level of intellectual dishonesty from the journalists and from the reader comments. Apparently it's easy to sell people aluminum bullets.

Braaaaaaaaiiinssss..... Think of the similarities between them and zombies: they don't think, they are dangerous to your health, they damage your brain, they try to make other people like them, they make lots of noise, and they're everywhere. And they like kittens.

So by those definitions, someone who is addicted to alcohol or World of Warcraft is very strong-willed. Someone who quits an addiction used to be strong-willed but then became weak-willed. Alternatively you could say that the act of quitting a strong addiction is an exhibition of strong will but if a negative can be strong will then everyone is strong-willed because everyone really, really doesn't want to do a great many things (i.e. there are a great many things you can fit down your throat that aren't food, there are a great many places that are far enough from your current position to make them not worth arriving at ever, etc). I don't understand the purpose of your definitions because they say basically the same things as "a person has or has had the intention of doing something" or "a person isn't suffering from learned helplessness". I think of that more as declining to take responsibility. My parents used to do that. Made their lectures on responsibility ironic.

I don't see any particular need to commit to something big. I'd suggest you start with one small action to meet people, such as going to a single event, and then go home and think about how you felt about that. Plan your next action accordingly. The alternative is to not go out to meet people but the existence of this thread implies that not doing so would be an impediment to your happiness. If you cared enough to start a discussion on this, you're not going to magically stop caring in a few days, right?