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Know yourself 10 min DREAM
What’s the biggest thing I’m missing out on?
One overlooked opportunity in your life, with the evidence for it and a first step.
Scene 30 prompts
Know yourself.
Ask what an honest observer would see in you.
These prompts ask an assistant what it sees in you: what you’re missing, repeating or underrating. In a fresh chat it interviews you first, so answer the way you’d answer a friend. Treat what comes back as a mirror with its guesses labeled, not as a verdict.
The rest of the scene.
29 more prompts. Open one to make it yours.
Know yourself 10 min Where could I get better without trying harder?
One place where changing your method, not adding effort, would pay off most.
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Know yourself 10 min What can everyone see about me except me?
Up to three likely blind spots with the evidence, and a question to check the biggest one.
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Know yourself 10 min What’s easy for me that’s hard for most people?
Up to three things you do well without noticing, with proof and a place to use each more.
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Know yourself 10 min What do I keep repeating and calling bad luck?
One recurring loop in your life, drawn from trigger to cost, and the best place to break it.
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Know yourself 10 min Does my calendar agree with what I say matters most?
A plain table of what you say you value against where the hours went, and the widest gap.
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Know yourself 10 min What do I already know but keep pretending I don’t?
The one thing you’ve been circling, said in a single plain sentence, with your own tells.
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Know yourself 10 min Which story about myself did I stop questioning years ago?
One old belief about who you are, checked against the evidence and rewritten to fit now.
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Know yourself 10 min What advice do I give everyone else and never take?
The piece of your own advice you most need, and what taking it this week looks like.
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Know yourself 10 min Whose definition of success am I living by?
Your goals traced back to where each one came from, and a definition of success that’s yours.
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Know yourself 10 min What’s the real question underneath the one I keep asking?
The harder question hiding behind the one you keep asking, and what gave it away.
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Know yourself 10 min Which fear has been making my decisions for me?
One fear, the choices it has quietly shaped, and a low-risk way to test whether it’s right.
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Know yourself 10 min Where have I gotten a little too comfortable?
The place where comfort has turned into habit, and a stretch that’s one size up.
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Know yourself 10 min What have I outgrown but keep carrying around?
One goal, role or habit that fit an earlier you, and a fair way to put it down.
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Know yourself 10 min Who do I envy, and what is that telling me?
A clear read on what your envy is pointing at, minus the parts of their life you’d hate.
Know yourself 10 min Do I actually want this, or just like the idea of it?
A verdict on the thing you keep putting off: do it, change it, or drop it for good.
Know yourself 10 min Everything I avoid has something in common. What is it?
What the tasks, calls and topics you avoid have in common, and the cheapest place to test it.
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Know yourself 10 min Why do I finish some things and abandon others?
What your finished projects share that your abandoned ones lack, applied to your next one.
Know yourself 10 min Show me how I actually decide, not how I think I do.
Your decision habits drawn from three real choices, your typical mistake, and one rule.
Know yourself 10 min Which two things do I want that I can’t have at once?
The tug-of-war behind your stuck decisions, named, with three honest ways to settle it.
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Know yourself 10 min What’s it like to be on the receiving end of me?
A fair guess at how you come across to one person in your life, and what they hold back.
Know yourself 20 min Write the user manual for working with me.
A one-page guide to working with you that you could hand to a new manager or teammate.
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Know yourself 5 min People thank me for the same thing again and again. What is it?
The common thread in what people say about you and ask of you, in one plain sentence.
Know yourself 20 min I’m not the best at anything. What’s rare about my mix?
The two or three things you do that are common on their own and uncommon together.
Know yourself 10 min Which of my regrets can I still do something about?
Your regrets sorted into still open, closed but useful, and not yours to carry.
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Know yourself 20 min Which part of my life is holding the rest back?
Your life on one small table, and the single area that’s holding the others back.
Know yourself 20 min Looking back, what was this year really about?
A one-page review of your year: what mattered, what you underrate, and a title for it.
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Know yourself 10 min What would my future self want me to know today?
A short letter in your own voice, from a future that went well in an ordinary way.
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Know yourself 20 min If my life were a book, what would the chapters be called?
Your life so far as a table of contents, plus three possible titles for the next chapter.
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Know yourself 10 min What do my pet peeves say about me?
The two or three things you care about most, read from what annoys you, and one peeve to drop.
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Know yourself is one of 12. These two sit on either side of it.