I’ve mentioned before that I like showing the inner workings of how I work through things (ie showing ChatGPT conversations) because it may help someone else undergoing the same journey and process.
But over the last couple of days, I’ve realized it goes way beyond this and helps me in ways that I can’t even fully comprehend in this moment right now.
What I mean is that it will help my future self in reflecting back and making sense of things that I was struggling with in this moment.
This is because you often don’t make sense of things and see the deeper meaning of them in the moment. It only emerges when reflecting back and seeing a larger scope of patterns over time, thus seeing how they all connect up.
This is an embodiment of Steve Jobs famous quote.
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.
Steve Jobs
This is why I find it important to record things that might seem inconsequential in the moment but in the long run may be a defining moment that unlocks so much of my life and my understanding of it.
And more importantly, in doing so, it allows us to see where we have crossed over into new terrain, exploring a larger stage of psychological development that we might not have been aware of otherwise.
This happened to me back in 2015 when I didn’t realize I had shifted into a new stage of psychological development until recently over the past six months or so.
In effect, by reflecting upon my life in a conversation with ChatGPT, this realization and awareness came to light.
This shows how continual repeated reflections are essential for growth and development, otherwise you might be missing something that’s under your very nose because you’re perceptually blind to it.