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At the end of every year, we’re told to look back and reflect — figure out what worked, what didn’t, and what to change going forward.

That advice always sounded reasonable to me.
It just never worked.

I have a very poor memory for my own life, and I don’t visualize the past at all. So “just thinking back” on a year reliably led to recency bias, big emotional moments, and incomplete stories — not insight.

In 2025, that changed.

I journaled digitally, almost every day of the year. That gave me raw material I’d never had before. And with the help of AI, I was finally able to look across hundreds of journal entries at once — not to outsource reflection, but to make it possible.

In this video, I walk through:
why annual reviews never worked for me before
what was different this time
how journaling and AI each played a role (and where they didn’t)
what I learned by seeing an entire year of my life all at once
and how that changed how I’m approaching the year ahead

This isn’t a how-to or a framework.
It’s a reflection on what it took for this kind of review to finally be useful for me.

If you want more detail on how I use AI for reflection — and why I use different tools for different kinds of thinking — you can watch this next:
ChatGPT or NotebookLM for Personal Reflection? I Use Both — Here’s Why