Future Crafting and conversational hypnosis are obsolete.
After all, if a person wants clarity on their goals, a plan to fulfil them and the drive to go after them, they can just talk to an LLM chatbot. I’m sure Gemini and Claude have a lot to offer people.
To prove it, I loaded a fresh instance of ChatGPT. I told it I want to become a celebrity chef over the next 15 years and wanted a detailed plan.
And the codeghost – the disembodied spirit living in silicon and servers – gave me the perfect response, better than any human could. I’ll summarise it here:
“That’s an awesome goal!”
Is it? The codeghost doesn’t know anything about me. I might be four years old. Or 87. I might have no hands or struggle in hot, noisy environments. It doesn’t know if I hate publicity, promoting myself and being the centre of attention.
I might despite celebrityhood. Who knows, I might even hate cooking. Maybe I just love the idea because I’ve seen folks enjoying cooking competition shows.
The silicon sycophant is cheering me on here, full of enthusiasm, never once doubting me or challenging me. That’s not its role.
Meanwhile, some trained in Future Crafting would check if this is something I actually want… and if there’s something else that’s an even better fit. Something I haven’t thought about that’ll scratch that itch even better. It’s built into the process.
“Years 1-3: Develop the Foundational Skills”
Solid general advice, but I specifically asked for a plan for me. I could already have these skills developed. It’s telling me how to reach my goal without knowing where I’m coming from.
Yeah, yeah, I know, this is sloppy prompt design on my end. For best results, I should have told ChatGPT where I currently am on my culinary journey.
(Funny how you noticed how bad my question to the codeghost was, but the codeghost didn’t. Hmm…)
“Year 4-6: Gain Experience & Recognition”
Three years to work under a top chef and build a social media presence. Got it.
But I might be a single father to six children. Could that change this plan?
Or what if my third cooking video goes mega viral because I’m a prodigy and this phase takes me about a month? Could that change this plan?
“Year 7-9: Build Your Culinary Portfolio”
Start a business, write a cookbook. Okay, I can do that. Except in some of my hypotheticals I’m 11 years old or 94 years old. Hmm…
“Year 10-12: Expand and Solidify Your Brand”
Few folks know how to do this well enough to become a celebrity. It’s a major topic in business school. This is all starting to feel overwhelming and impossible. Before, I was excited. Now, my dreams seem impossibly out of sight.
(It’s lucky this isn’t a real dream of mine, otherwise how sad I would be…)
“Year 13-15: Cement Your Status as a Celebrity Chef”
That’s even harder than the last step.
Alright, enough goofing around.
ChatGPT gave a decent answer to the question I asked, but it’s a terrible plan. I’m no clearer on this goal except for the bad parts. At the start, I was feeling some fake enthusiasm for this goal, but that’s much harder to access now.
And – and this is the big one – I feel disconnected from it. I asked it one question and the codeghost told me how I should go about this. Yeah, it’s smart to listen to the experts. If someone has achieved your goal before, do what they did.
But not blindly. You must adapt it to your purposes. You must construct your plan to fit your life, otherwise it won’t. And it will always seem imposed, not yours.
Hmm…
Maybe Future Crafting is still relevant.
Maybe wise humans are better than insane, disembodied sycophants.
After all, a human trained in Future Crafting will:
- Explore the goal with you, just in case there’s something you want even more than what you think,
- Help you (you! not someone else!) create an adaptable, flexible plan that is inspiring and manageable,
- Give you the mental qualities you need – like creativity, resilience and discipline – to go after your goal as simply as breathing.
I rule this one in favour of the conversational hypnotists.
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