[New AI Prompt] Seeing Yourself From Their Perspective
That’s the thing about self-awareness. Whatever perspective you have is biased by that very perspective.
This is embarrassing, but I feel like I spent 6 months in therapy before I realized I was doing it wrong.
Not *wrong* wrong. I mean, I showed up every week, talked about the thing I thought was the thing, got some insights, felt better, left.
Rinse, repeat.
Then one session my therapist said: “You’ve been coming here for months. You haven’t once brought up your need to be a master at everything.”
[record scratch]
Wait whaaaat?!
That’s the thing about self-awareness. Whatever perspective you have is biased by your perspective. You can’t really see you outside of your perception of you.
You’re trying to read the label on the pickle jar while you’re stuck inside the darn pickle jar.
You know what you need? Someone outside the jar.
There are parts of your body everybody else can see, but you will never see with your own eyes. You need a mirror. You need something to reflect yourself back on you.
That’s what honest, direct feedback does. It shows you the patterns you can’t see because you’re living in the middle of them.
Problem is, that kind of feedback is really rare.
Your team won’t give it to you.
Your colleagues won’t give it to you.
Your friends might give it to you, if you ask directly and have the psychological safety in that relationship.
Your therapist might help a little, but it doesn’t really translate well to the nuance of leadership
So you’ve got a few options:
Hire a leadership coach who will tell you the truth you’re not hearing. Like this guy
Join a diagnostic workshop where you can learn the patterns getting in your way. Sign up here to learn more.
Or - and stay with me here - you could talk to my really insightful friend, Claude. Or his equally compelling cousin ChatGPT.
If you are a regular user of an AI tool, this prompt is amazing Leadership Therapy
I had a client run this prompt last week. Here’s what they said after:
It’s simple. It’s uncomfortable. And it works (as long as you use an AI tool often)
Here’s the prompt.
The AI Prompt That Explains You To You
