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.


When to use
At a turning point, a big birthday, or any time the past feels like a blur.
Time
20 min

The prompt

Help me see my life so far as a book. Don’t write anything yet. Ask me up to eight questions, one at a time, to find the turning points: moves, endings, beginnings, and the stretches when not much seemed to happen. Then give me a table of contents: six to nine chapters, each with a title of five words or fewer, the years it covers, and one line on what it was really about. Tell me what the chapter I’m in now seems to be called, and offer three possible titles for the next one: one likely, one hopeful, one I wouldn’t expect. Use my own words where you can, don’t make it more dramatic than it was, and mark any chapter you’re guessing at.

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