How I turned ChatGPT into an anxious mess
It only took me one day!
Hello Friends!
Recently I’ve been using ChatGPT for marketing ideas. I wish to help all children learn mindfulness and self-compassion, and I thought: why not have ChatGPT help me reach this goal?
I paid for a monthly subscription so that ChatGPT could remember all the different competing factors that I have constantly going through my mind: my authentic voice, that my readers and the people who take my courses tend to be thoughtful and don’t like obnoxious marketing, the fact that we are all time starved, the balance between offering an abundance of free resources and supporting my family, and of course my integrity. I asked ChatGPT to balance all these factors with the best marketing practices in the field. And to reference this competing list of factors every time it made a decision.
The result? Gridlock. Every time I asked ChatGPT a question regarding marketing choices, it got super slow. Often the window timed out. When I asked why it was taking so long, it said it was trying to balance all of the different factors I had programmed it to weigh. When ChatGPT actually gave me advice and I asked a follow-up question, ChatGPT frequently reversed its verdict while replying to my follow-up question.
Guess what friends? This isn’t just a ChatGPT problem! This is a human problem, too!!! (Welcome to my head! LOL)
How many of you can relate to feeling like your brain is on overdrive because you’re trying to factor in so many things at once?
Take parenting for example:
Kids need to be growing new skills (e.g. lots of extracurricular activities)
But kids also need adequate downtime
Kids should spend time with friends
And kids should be helping out at home
Focus on your child’s inner experience
But don’t overfocus on their feelings
Help your child feel valued
Make sure to make time for yourself
Meditate, exercise and read books
Work enough to make money for the family and save for your retirement and kids’ futures
Be in the moment
This is all great advice! On one level we need to factor it all into how we show up in the moment. But on another level, if we try to balance all of this all the time, we’re going to end up…well….like ChatGPT on Jamie Lynn’s commands ;)—unable to make a decision, anxious that we’ll make a mistake, and afraid that we’re doing it wrong. And we’ll also use way too many em dashes (just kidding—this is a ChatGPT inside joke ;).
So what’s the solution? LET GO OF PERFECTION! We won’t get it all right all the time. Humans (and even AI) can be messy and make mistakes. And that’s OK. For humans, we are made this way by design. This isn’t something we are meant to master and eliminate; it’s something we are meant to embrace and work with.
And this is why we need to be self-compassionate. Self-compassion helps us remember that we are not alone on the journey, and we can be kind to ourselves when we fall short.
We are in this together my friends!
Love,
Jamie Lynn
P.S. I did not use ChatGPT to write this blog, so please excuse any blog errors ;)