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Keeping up an healthy habit requires you to show up each day, even on bad days when you would prefer doing something else.

How? On those bad days you can reduce the commitment, the amount of work required, accepting that life (or you) sometimes gets in the way.

While this might seem like a trick, it is a great way to make habits stick. Starting again is harder than keeping the habit alive when you have low motivation.

When you look at ChatGPT it’s hard to not be even slightly amazed. It is extraordinary and opens up new possibility.

But what makes it great? Yes, the outputs are great, yes, it “guesses” correctly most of the time, yes, it works strikingly well.

If you look at what we had before, which kind of is Google search, there is one missing element there, that makes the difference in ChatGPT: the ability to interact.

That is probably the most significant change that we all wanted. 

We all wanted to tell google: Hey, the results you just gave me don’t make sense, can you improve them?

This deceptively simple question makes a great piece of the benefits. Who didn’t give up after refining a search a few times and not coming to a decent result? The ability to change and adapt, without a predefined “search rule” is part of what makes ChatGPT so appealing.  

It’s been 2 years. 2 years and 1 day since the first lockdown in Italy. 
2 years, since we shut the country down.

I remember those days. It was warm and sunny, the weather was beautiful, and there was a sinister silence in the streets.

Even going out to throw the trash felt like violating some law.
Fast-forward two years, and now it seems like everything is almost ok. Covid is nowhere in the news.

But while I walk in the city, while I enter some buildings or train, I see signs of its passage.
I see distancing messages, mask information, “Wash your hand”, separate entrance/exits, etc.

How long those signs will stay with us? It’s not hard for me to imagine a time, 5 or 10 years from now, when I’ll see, under a rusty plate, the image of a sign inviting us to wear a musk. 
Or walk into a bathroom and see the instructions to wash the hands properly.

To me, it all feels post-apocalyptic. As in a movie, where there’s a distant past we forgot.
But in this case, even 5-10 years from now, it won’t be so distant.

One of the topics that resonated with me about Four Thousand Weeks book, is how to handle expectations.

When reaching a new level in your job, when switching job, or even in the personal life, it’s normal to look back and think that what we did was extraordinary.

That, though, implies that there is some kind of non-repeatable outcome, or extra effort needed to get there, while, in fact, you did it because you could do it.

You had the skills, the preparation, etc. Then, one of the things I often ask myself too is: What if I fail?

Well, failing is part of every journey, there is no journey without failure, but more importantly, we can’t change that. If we are going to fail because we didn’t have the skills to begin with, it will be almost impossible to fix, and even if we can temporarily make it, we would still face greater problems later on.

Either we were ok for the place we’re in right now, or we were never ok to begin with. In both cases, we can only accept our condition and do our best. Nothing else is required from us. Worrying about it was not, in fact, part of the requirements at all.

It’s common to have a different opinion of ourselves, but are the differences between what we perceive vs what other people think of us enough to justify a reflection?

This should also include -good things-, skills, behaviors, that people see in us that we don’t see. We might dismiss the words every time they say it “You’re too good”, but if that happens, and we are not recognizing it, then maybe there’s a detachment in our perception and it’s worth exploring.