--- schema: 1 type: video title: Prompt Your Way To Personal Growth - Ep. 51 with Steve Schlafman description: >- Steve Schlafman is using a $20 ChatGPT subscription to expand his consciousness. He’s doing this through: Advanced dream work—Steve records himself talking about his dreams every morning, uploads the transcript to ChatGPT, and prompts the LLM to analyze it like a Jungian dream analyst would. The model pulls out archetypes and hidden emotions that he would’ve been oblivious to. Creating living records of meaningful experiences—Instead of losing key insights from therapy or coaching, Steve uses the LLM to highlight emotional patterns, pick out recurring symbols, and build a personal growth timeline. Leaning into voice interfaces—Diagnosed with ADD as a child, Steve often lost track of ideas because his brain processed information faster than he could type or write it out. AI voice interfaces free him to process information in a way that’s more natural to him. Steve is a former VC-turned-executive coach and the founder of @downshift, the “decelerator” for founders and executives. If you think this episode is too “woo” for your liking, Steve argues that you might be over-indexing on just one way of experiencing the world. We see the world through four windows: thinking, sensing, feeling, and imagining—and according to him, the last two are often ignored. So if your rational mind has always run the show, Steve invites you to let your feelings and imagination take the lead. This is a must watch for anyone interested in using AI to understand themselves better—and grow. If you found this episode interesting, please like, subscribe, comment, and share! Want even more? Sign up for Every to unlock our ultimate guide to prompting ChatGPT here: https://every.ck.page/ultimate-guide-to-prompting-chatgpt. It’s usually only for paying subscribers, but you can get it here for free. To hear more from Dan Shipper: Subscribe to Every: https://every.to/subscribe Follow him on X: https://twitter.com/danshipper Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Episode start 00:01:07 - Introduction 00:03:00 - The power of treating your startup as an evolving entity 00:05:27 - Building a business as a means of self-expression 00:17:45 - Prompting ChatGPT to do Jungian dream work 00:21:44 - Why you should listen to this episode, especially if it feels too "woo'" for you 00:36:31 - Visualizing Steve's dream with ChatGPT 00:47:38 - Creating living records of meaning experiences with AI 00:49:37 - If you tend to think faster than you can type, lean into voice interfaces 00:52:13 - How Steve writes with AI 00:54:03 - How AI will disrupt traditional coaching and therapy Links to resources mentioned in the episode: Steve Schlafman: https://www.schlaf.co/ Downshift, the “deaccelerator” that Steve founded: https://www.downshift.me/ The book by Bill Plotkin that Steve talks about: https://www.amazon.com/Soulcraft-Crossing-Mysteries-Nature-Psyche/dp/1577314220 A piece Steve wrote for Every, a couple of years ago: https://every.to/p/why-is-it-so-hard-to-change canonical: >- https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/video/prompt-your-way-to-personal-growth-ep-51-with-steve-85bb697e4222 markdown: >- https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/video/prompt-your-way-to-personal-growth-ep-51-with-steve-85bb697e4222.md llms: null parent: 'https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc.md' channel: everyinc updated: '2026-10-24T01:09:48.363Z' language: null children: [] videoId: bwF9bZtUsKU durationSeconds: 3343 publishedAt: '2025-03-12T16:43:30.000Z' searchChunks: - ordinal: 0 text: null startSeconds: 77 endSeconds: 190 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/bwF9bZtUsKU?t=77' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 1 text: null startSeconds: 201 endSeconds: 333 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/bwF9bZtUsKU?t=201' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 2 text: null startSeconds: 346 endSeconds: 460 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/bwF9bZtUsKU?t=346' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 3 text: null startSeconds: 474 endSeconds: 567 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/bwF9bZtUsKU?t=474' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 4 text: null startSeconds: 690 endSeconds: 769 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/bwF9bZtUsKU?t=690' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 5 text: null startSeconds: 887 endSeconds: 983 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/bwF9bZtUsKU?t=887' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 6 text: null startSeconds: 1083 endSeconds: 1314 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/bwF9bZtUsKU?t=1083' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 7 text: null startSeconds: 1326 endSeconds: 1404 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/bwF9bZtUsKU?t=1326' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 8 text: null startSeconds: 1630 endSeconds: 1711 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/bwF9bZtUsKU?t=1630' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 9 text: null startSeconds: 2054 endSeconds: 2202 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/bwF9bZtUsKU?t=2054' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 10 text: null startSeconds: 2654 endSeconds: 2744 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/bwF9bZtUsKU?t=2654' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 11 text: null startSeconds: 2994 endSeconds: 3136 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/bwF9bZtUsKU?t=2994' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 12 text: null startSeconds: 3250 endSeconds: 3262 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/bwF9bZtUsKU?t=3250' heldReason: rights --- # Prompt Your Way To Personal Growth - Ep. 51 with Steve Schlafman Steve Schlafman is using a $20 ChatGPT subscription to expand his consciousness. He’s doing this through: Advanced dream work—Steve records himself talking about his dreams every morning, uploads the transcript to ChatGPT, and prompts the LLM to analyze it like a Jungian dream analyst would. The model pulls out archetypes and hidden emotions that he would’ve been oblivious to. Creating living records of meaningful experiences—Instead of losing key insights from therapy or coaching, Steve uses the LLM to highlight emotional patterns, pick out recurring symbols, and build a personal growth timeline. Leaning into voice interfaces—Diagnosed with ADD as a child, Steve often lost track of ideas because his brain processed information faster than he could type or write it out. AI voice interfaces free him to process information in a way that’s more natural to him. Steve is a former VC-turned-executive coach and the founder of @downshift, the “decelerator” for founders and executives. If you think this episode is too “woo” for your liking, Steve argues that you might be over-indexing on just one way of experiencing the world. We see the world through four windows: thinking, sensing, feeling, and imagining—and according to him, the last two are often ignored. So if your rational mind has always run the show, Steve invites you to let your feelings and imagination take the lead. This is a must watch for anyone interested in using AI to understand themselves better—and grow. If you found this episode interesting, please like, subscribe, comment, and share! Want even more? Sign up for Every to unlock our ultimate guide to prompting ChatGPT here: https://every.ck.page/ultimate-guide-to-prompting-chatgpt. It’s usually only for paying subscribers, but you can get it here for free. To hear more from Dan Shipper: Subscribe to Every: https://every.to/subscribe Follow him on X: https://twitter.com/danshipper Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Episode start 00:01:07 - Introduction 00:03:00 - The power of treating your startup as an evolving entity 00:05:27 - Building a business as a means of self-expression 00:17:45 - Prompting ChatGPT to do Jungian dream work 00:21:44 - Why you should listen to this episode, especially if it feels too "woo'" for you 00:36:31 - Visualizing Steve's dream with ChatGPT 00:47:38 - Creating living records of meaning experiences with AI 00:49:37 - If you tend to think faster than you can type, lean into voice interfaces 00:52:13 - How Steve writes with AI 00:54:03 - How AI will disrupt traditional coaching and therapy Links to resources mentioned in the episode: Steve Schlafman: https://www.schlaf.co/ Downshift, the “deaccelerator” that Steve founded: https://www.downshift.me/ The book by Bill Plotkin that Steve talks about: https://www.amazon.com/Soulcraft-Crossing-Mysteries-Nature-Psyche/dp/1577314220 A piece Steve wrote for Every, a couple of years ago: https://every.to/p/why-is-it-so-hard-to-change Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/video/prompt-your-way-to-personal-growth-ep-51-with-steve-85bb697e4222 · Channel: [Every](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc.md) > Search chunk text is held until public-source provenance is verified. ## Document chunks > Missing: no stored document chunks are available.