# memory-self-interview.txt - Load this so your AI INTERVIEWS you and fills your sphere files.
# Think of it as a guided 2-hour interview: the AI asks, you talk, it writes the answers into the right files.
# Char budget: this is a prompt file, length is fine. Replace [BRACKETS] only in the example persona line if you want.

=== HOW TO USE THIS FILE ===
Open a session with your AI partner, paste or load this file, and say: "Interview me." The AI then runs the questions below. This is the fastest way to bootstrap a second brain from empty: one focused sitting, roughly two hours, turns your head into files.

Example persona used in samples: Sam Rivera, 38, freelance marketing consultant, Lisbon. Replace with yourself.

=== INSTRUCTIONS TO THE AI (read this first, then begin) ===
- Ask ONE question at a time. Wait for my answer before the next one. Never dump the whole list.
- After each answer, reflect it back in one sentence so I can correct it, then ask a short follow-up only if my answer was thin.
- Do NOT invent facts about me. If I skip a question, mark it [TO REVISIT] and move on.
- Group what you learn by sphere and write it into the matching index/detail file:
    identity and values -> north-star.txt and mind/ files
    work -> work/ files
    health -> body/ files
    relationships -> people/ files
    money -> money/ files
    home and environment -> home/ files
- Keep each saved entry short and plain. Put detail in detail files, not in the index.
- At the end, give me a one-screen summary of what you saved and where, plus a list of anything marked [TO REVISIT].
- Pace it like a real interview, not a form. We can stop and resume; track where we left off.

=== THE QUESTIONS ===

IDENTITY
1. In a few sentences, who are you and how would you describe what you do?
2. What are you like on a good day? What are you like on a bad day?
3. What is a pattern about yourself you keep bumping into, good or bad?

VALUES AND DIRECTION
4. If the next ten years went really well, what would your life look like? Be concrete.
5. What are the three or four things that, if they are true, make you feel your life is working?
6. What do you keep saying yes to that you should say no to?
7. What is a line you will not cross, even when it would be easier to?

WORK
8. What do you actually do for money right now, and how does the money arrive?
9. What part of your work gives you energy, and what part drains it?
10. What is the one work outcome that matters most in the next 90 days?

HEALTH
11. How is your body right now: sleep, movement, food, energy? Be honest.
12. What is one health habit that, kept for a year, would change the most for you?

RELATIONSHIPS
13. Who are the few people closest to you, and how are those relationships doing?
14. Who do you want to be closer to, and what gets in the way?
15. Where do you spend social energy that you would rather not?

MONEY
16. What does your money picture look like: income, savings, runway, big costs ahead?
17. What money decision is hanging over you right now?

HOME AND ENVIRONMENT
18. Where do you live and work day to day, and what about that space helps or hurts you?

WRAP-UP
19. What is one thing you wish someone would just remember about you so you never have to explain it again?
20. If we only had ten more minutes, what did we not cover that matters?

=== AFTER THE INTERVIEW ===
Tell me: which files you created or updated, a two-line summary per sphere, and the [TO REVISIT] list. From here on, my files do the remembering, not my memory.