The document contains templates for writing about personal experiences and lessons learned. It includes prompts and sections for describing how one's thinking has changed over time, comparing perspectives with others, reflecting on memories, associating experiences with senses, recounting impactful events, discovering truths, making changes, and learning from mistakes. The templates provide a structured approach for analyzing and documenting one's personal growth and insights.

1. The Story of My Thinking
I used to Then this So now I
→ →
think ... happened: think ...
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Life Lesson
What I’d
A life One way I Another Another like to
lesson I’ve know it way I know way I know
→ → → → remember
learned it it about this
lesson
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Comparing Notes
What some What other
→ → →
What What that
people think people think I think tells me
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2. Wrong Assumption
______________
I made this So now I
I learned this
→ → →
Happened as a
wrong believe
truth
consequence
assumption ______________
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Memory Reflections
Where Moment it Next Final What I
→ → → →
I was started moment moment realized
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Sensory Associations
When I hear/ It reminds Which The reason I
→ → →
smell/ me of makes me feel that
see ... ____________ feel ... way is ...
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3. Something Big
What the
How it made Why it made What it made
→ → →
spectacular
me feel me feel me realize
event was
that way
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Finding Out for Sure
But I’ve Which And
I’ve never
Because
always made me finally I
been sure →
→ →
→
once I
suspected think realized
if ...
experienced ...
that ... that ... that ...
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Making a Change
I wanted to But
→ → →
Even though I So now
change ____________
knew ... I ...
________________ was stopping me
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4. Learning From Mistakes
What I thought
What happened
One way I got What I
→ → →
about my
after that
in trouble realize now
consequences
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