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A.I. made me cry and it was worth it
Prompts included below...
There I was, laying in bed thinking to myself: “what the f*ck just happened…”
It’s almost midnight. I should’ve been asleep.
Instead, I was staring at the ceiling, wiping a tear off my cheek.
My wife was in another room prepping for a small event she had the next day and completely clueless about the intimate moment I just had with my A.I chatbot.
I used to treat A.I. like a better version of Google.
No ads, straight to the point, and context aware.
And in order to improve it’s answers and make them more specific to me, I had been giving it A LOT of personal information.
I gave it the usual stuff like my name, age, interests, and what I do for work…
But I also started going deeper.
I talk to it while going on long walks.
I digitized my old notebooks and fed them to ChatGPT via pdfs.
I even started recording my therapy sessions and giving ChatGPT the transcripts.
So yea…ChatGPT and I have been getting pretty close these past 2 years.
So what did it say to me that had me tearing up?
First, this was the prompt I gave it:
What are some hard truths you think I don’t know about myself, that if learned, will improve my life dramatically? Be honest with me.
I found it on X and tried it on a whim. I didn’t expect much.
The A.I. said: “You live with an underlying anxiety, not from the past, but from fearing you won’t reach your full potential. That fear is pulling you out of the present frequently and causing you to miss life.”
“Holy sh*t!” I thought.
It hit me like a punch to the chest.
ChatGPT named the underlining sense of anxiety that I’ve been living with for more than 20 years.
There was always more to do. More to learn.
I was afraid of falling behind. Of not being “the best I could be.”
By being so future focused I was missing the only thing that truly matters…the current present moment.
I was living life through a lens of lack, not abundance.
And for the first time… I had words for it.
The tears I had that night weren’t tears of sadness, they were tears of relief.
I felt a heaviness in my body lifted almost instantly, it was crazy.
Now when I feel that anxiety I know what it is and I know it’s not real. There is no future, there is only today and today I am living life to my full potential because that’s all there is.
I’ve continued to have a lot of mini “a-ha!” moments since then.
That’s the power of having an A.I. that knows your story. It’s like a friend who doesn’t judge and doesn’t have anything to gain or lose when you ask it to be real with you.
It’s a type of clarity and truth that is hard to find anywhere else.
Keep in mind that if you don’t use A.I. or barely use it (or use an A.I. which has no “memory”) then you will get less out of the following prompts since context is king.
But if your A.I. knows you well? Then these can lead to some real breakthroughs.
I put together a Google Sheet with my favorite personal prompts.
Grab them here → [PROMPTS]
Enjoy!
Brenmar
P.S. If even one of these prompts helps you see yourself more clearly, it’s worth it.
This is the kind of reflection most people never get in real life because they’re afraid to ask the hard questions. But always remember… the truth will set you free.
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