Smart Child Paved the Way for Chat GPT

On today's episode: from Chat GPT to chat rooms on the original AOL, I showcase how a simple thought can spiral into hyperfixating! I also talk about self-care with the Finch Self-Care Pet app and "A Hug in a Box" pampering, the latter which has me wondering if you too ever sit something away on a shelf with the intent of using it at "the perfect moment," but then months go by and you still haven't used it? 

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Transcript

Speaker 1 0:21

Hello and welcome to a new episode of A Spectrum of Hyperfixations . I am your host , miss T . Today , the T stands for tenacious comes to mind because I've been getting some work done today , I've been making some connections . Today it feels good and they always say you know , it's who you know . So I went in for an interview I think it was last week , no , it was the week of Christmas , so it's been a while Went in for an interview at an employment staffing company and hit it off real well with the recruiter there .

Speaker 1 1:09

And today she mentioned a couple of different places like nonprofits in the community and thinks that they would be really good like personal cup fillers with aligning with my coaching , and one of them is called the Pando Initiative , where they put somebody in a school , kind of like a mentor or counselor for kids , and I thought that would be really cool . So she gave me the contact info of somebody and now I reached out and we're going to hopefully meet up next week so I can talk to her about what she does and how maybe I will be able to apply for a position if it comes open in the future . So , yeah , making moves and , you know , tapping into that identity of being a coach , being a successful coach and getting things done . So it feels good to tap in that sort of confidence because otherwise , you know , usually I would just be like , oh gosh , well , we got to set this aside . We got to think about it for days , we got to come up with the perfect outreach email verbiage you know all the things and it's like no , just do it right now and check it off your list .

Speaker 1 2:25

Which , speaking of lists , I guess this can be a cheer for the week is the Finch self-care app . If you haven't heard of this , it is freaking adorable . And I didn't realize how much I'm motivated when there is this sense of disappointing someone or , in this case , something . And that's my little burb , and they call it a burb , but not a bird , and it's so cute . And I recognize you know that my need to be motivated by the fear of disappointing somebody is absolutely like a trauma response and everything . And that's okay , I'm going to use it to my advantage and actually get stuff done .

Speaker 1 3:10

I have been so motivated these last couple of days since I downloaded the app . It's unreal and it just feels so good to check it off my list . I uh my sister had it and showed me it while she was down here at Christmas time , and so I finally was like you know what , I'll give it a try . And I became instantly obsessed and texted another friend about it . They downloaded it and we're all getting stuff done , but it feels really good and so I highly recommend it if you like video games , because there's a you know kind of like instant gratification of you know you get coins and then you can buy things um like , and it doesn't , it's totally free . You can opt for a you know a purchase plan or whatever , but I went with the free version . It's , it's great and , um like video games or cute little animals Like it's totally for you .

Speaker 1 4:09

I'm curious if you can hear Hershey wailing in the background because she just decided to start meowing her head off . I should actually check and see if there's . If it started snowing , it's supposed to start snowing again today . So we're just again cooped up in the house . That's not a jeer , though I don't really have any jeers right now . Yeah , things are pretty good right now , though I will kind of pivot here and talk about I'm going to see .

Speaker 1 4:40

Okay , I'm having a brain fart because there are two things I want to talk about today . So the first one is my friend for Christmas sent me a hug in a box and it's really cute . It comes with like a bunch of little fun pampering items like under eye masks , body butter and really nice lather soap like bar soap , a small candle , a bath bomb and facial serum and a clay mask and it smells so good . Like the moment I opened the box , I was hit with like this heavenly scent . It's so good and it's just been sitting here and I'm like , yeah , I'll get to it . I really want to do it , because you know it's like a spa day for yourself . You know , pamper yourself , sort of thing . And I'm like , yeah , yeah , yeah , I'll , I gotta wait , I gotta wait for the right time , I gotta wait for the perfect moment .

Speaker 1 5:38

And the other day I was like I need to just like dig into this and figure out how to use these and just start using them . And that's something I want to remind you is you wait for the perfect time or the perfect moment ? It's never going to happen . You have to create that perfect moment for yourself . Does anybody else do this , where you get something nice and you're like you put it on the shelf and you think , okay , I'm going to come back to this at the right moment , the right time , whatever that is . And then it just sits there for months and you never get to use the thing or enjoy the thing or do the thing , because it never is the right time , it never fits in the schedule , it never fill in the blank .

Speaker 1 6:24

And so last night I took the box , open it up , I wrote I literally wrote down instructions for when and how to use , like the clay mask and the facial serum , because it's like , okay , do I use this one before I cleanse my face ? Do I use this one for how long ? How many drops of this ? And that , like I need clear construction that way , make it as simple as possible to use these things , put them out in the bathroom so that they are ready to go , not just hanging out in the box anymore . And we're just going to create these opportunities . So that's something I just wanted to touch on and see if anybody else does that where you yeah , you put something away , you wait for the time and then the time never comes . So less than one of the day make that time . So today's episode is just all loopholes , apparently .

Speaker 1 7:16

But here is a look into sort of how my brain works and how I become hyper fixated on things . So the other night I was thinking about oh gosh , I can't remember Now , I can't even remember how I got onto this thought , but it was thinking about chat GPT and asking chat to BT to do something . And then that got me thinking of oh wow , like I remember when this was becoming such a big deal it really wasn't that long ago when we started hearing stories of chat GPT is here and this is all that it can do , and now it's becoming a problem because , like , and all these stories are happening and the life , like , there was a time when chat GPT was not talked about or anything like that , and it's just been very recent . And then I was like , oh yeah , it's kind of like back in the day when I don't know if any of you remember of the dial-up days with AOLcom and AOL Instant Messenger . But there there was a user I guess I don't know what else to call them , but our cousins introduced us to this . It was called Smart Child and if you message Smart Child , it was an AI who would be able to like respond to you . And yeah , it was ChatGPT before Chat chat GPT , but it was very basic and minimal .

Speaker 1 8:59

So then thinking of smart child got me reminiscing then about the good old days with dial up and how , whenever I'd have sleepovers , either at my friend's house or my house , we would always hop online after the parents went to bed , you know , because you were going to tie up the phone line if you did and we were also doing things we shouldn't be doing as kids . So we waited until they went to bed , got online and they were entering the AOL chat rooms . Do you guys remember these AOL chat rooms ? It was like the freaking Wild West back then , my goodness , like what a time . And at this point we're in fourth grade , fourth fifth grade , when all this was coming out and I remember all this again . See , deep dive into my brain . All this was leading to a memory of being at a friend's house and we would play Super Smash Brothers on the N64 for hours .

Speaker 1 9:58

And then we got on her dad's laptop , went to an AOL chat room , you break out into the instant messenger with somebody that you like , hit off in the chat room with and of course you know they're asking asl , age , sex , uh , location always lie and um , at one point we like knocked over a cup and she was drinking root beer and so like we were freaking out because it like spilled on the laptop right . And then we had to tell the dude like we needed to step away or we had to clean up something , but we called it like oh , I spilled my beer . Because we were trying to act older and we couldn't say like oh , I spilled my root beer . It would just sound so childish . But man , that was such fun . Times of just . Those were the early days of trolling , where we would just roll into a chat room , try to be posing as adults and you either instigate a fight in the chat room or you're just watching with your popcorn . I mean , my gosh , it was just , like I said , the wild west of the internet back then . And um , so yeah , that was how everything from thinking about putting something into chat , gpt to help me with , led me all the way down to the good old days of AOL and memories .

Speaker 1 11:22

So I just wanted to share that a look into how the hyperfixation happens . It can take one little thing and then your brain spirals outwards . So short episode today . That's fine too , because again , these are just my hyper fixations in the moment for the week , or , however I feel , keep it nice and bite sized today . Reminder again , webinar , free webinar is happening on January 20th at 2 pm Central . It is who Are you Really Discovering and Embracing your Identity ? I wrapped up my notes today . It is going to be awesome . A lot of good content . Yes , I am hyping myself up to sound confident and feel confident and be confident . This is my first ever webinar that I'm doing with a whole slide deck , zoom , all the things . So , um , it's , it's just going to be great . I hope you can attend link in the show notes , totally free to attend again . And , um , yeah , hope you are continuing to stay warm and to stay safe and remember that you are stronger than you feel and that you are loved . See you next time .