Amor Fati – love of fate.
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I’m a member of a global organization called EO, specifically the EO Louisiana chapter.
EO is a peer-to-peer organization of business owners and leaders. A central focus of EO is a monthly meeting with a set group of folks, your “Forum.”
An important part of the forum meeting is the 5% reflections, during which you talk about what’s going on in your personal, business, and family life. Sometimes, they vary and are outside of those three areas.
5% is important. It’s suggested that outside of the forum, you’re only sharing the 95% (sort of an 80/20 concept) to get to the root of issues.
I am historically terrible at this. I leave it til the last minute, and I don’t give it due consideration, and my 5% comes out as ranting and raving about whatever is top of mind.
I finally found a solution – really two solutions – one of which is enabled by a ChatGPT AI Sandwich.
In a bit of an oversimplification, the update consists of:
- Headline – what’s happening.
- Emotions – how you feel about it.
- Significance – why it matters.
We have a number of tools to talk about emotions, but the one I like the most is this one from Carla Enjoys Tumblr, identified as Dr. Robert Plutchik’s wheel of emotion.
I like it because it’s a good filtering mechanism. You start with a broad emotion like Fearul, Happy or Sad, and by working your way out the wheel, get to a more specific emotion that really evokes where your head is. Sometimes, these even come from multiple broad categories.
For one of my reflections this week, I identified thankful, hopeful, and loving emotions.
We’ve had some come and go, but I’ve been meeting with the core of my forum for the better part of eight years. You can imagine we’ve got a pretty good read on one another.
The emotion wheel is a good crutch to get to the real emotions, and not some overarching, likely in the 95% descriptions.
The other recent addition to my 5% reflections is my favorite robot, ChatGPT.
I started with famous quotes. In essence, I asked ChatGPT to give me a famous quote that was evocative of the thing I was trying to express.
One of those that I’m particularly fond of is:
“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.” – Nelson Mandela
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After my updates from our last forum, one of my forum mates teasingly suggested I should use haiku for my next set of updates.
As with anything ChatGPT, the best outcomes require iteration.
Yesterday, for my 5% reflections in the AAA forum of EO Louisiana, my headlines were these:
Whispers of time pass,
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Patience weaves a victor’s thread,
Silent triumph grows.
Drawn to distant shores,
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Yet the anchor’s silent pull,
Nature’s course unfolds.
On the fringe they tread,
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Edgy tactics weave the web,
Success lies ahead.
And my one word open for the day was “Amor Fati” – love of fate.
Not ready to ink it yet, but it’s pretty good.
Amor Fati – love of fate.
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Will Scott 