Lesson 4 · 15 min
Most people use AI as a question machine: open it, ask, copy, close. It's like hiring a brilliant consultant and wiping their memory every morning. In personal life, cultivation is cheap: three or four text files and twenty minutes a week.
Start the lesson
Goal: start personal cultivation with one function, an About me file, three rules and the 20-minute weekly review.
Three files and one habit. Click each part.
Someone who does the review for eight weeks ends up with an AI that doesn't look like anyone else's.
Pick one to start.
Role: an advisor who doesn't decide. Context: your criteria and past decisions with their outcomes. Rule: always present the opposing option.
Over time, it remembers your own patterns: "last time you picked the cheapest and regretted it".
Role: spending analyst. Tool: a spreadsheet exported from your bank. Rule: never move money, only show it.
Spending categories and patterns show up that you had never seen.
Role: tutor. Examples: one explanation that "clicked" and one that didn't. Assessment: it asks, you answer, it notes where you get stuck.
The memory becomes the map of your gaps.
Role: an editor with your voice. Examples: five of your texts. Rule: don't change the tone, only clarity.
After a month, the first draft comes out almost ready. Health and routine follow the same logic: suggest and ask your doctor, never prescribe.
Copy into SOBRE-MIM.md, REGRAS.md, and the review note.
# About me — <name> reviewed on <date> Who I am: This year's goals: 1) 2) 3) Constraints (time, money, health): How I like to work: direct, no praise, English, short lists What I hate: Decisions already made (don't reopen):
# Rules — role: <e.g.: writing reviewer> 1. Never decide for me on money or health; present options. 2. Be direct, no praise. 3. Answer in English. # Never - third-party data or passwords in this file
## Review — week of <date> 1. I read MEMORIA.md: what did it note that's new? 2. Three lines in FALHAS.md: date | what went wrong | smallest fix | was context, a rule, or an example missing? 3. I fixed it IN THE FILE (not in the conversation): 4. I deleted from memory what is no longer true:
One week per tab.
Write About me (one page). Pick a role. Set three rules.
Use it every day in the same role. Gather five good examples. Start the failure log.
First real weekly review. Edit the context and rules. Create the Memory file.
Add one tool (calendar or spreadsheet). Measure: time saved and how many times you redid things. Decide whether to open a second role.
This week.
Write SOBRE-MIM.md and REGRAS.md with a single role. The personal kit has the files with a fictional example.
Done when: About me fits on one page, the role is written in one sentence, and there are exactly three rules.
Use the AI in the same role for one week, loading the files at the start. At the end, do the review using the template above.
Done when: FALHAS.md has at least three lines, and at least one of them turned into a change in a file (rule, context, or example).
4 questions.
Question 1 of 4
You've explained for the third time that you want answers in short bullet points. What do you do?
Question 2 of 4
What's the right size for About me?
Question 3 of 4
In the "spending analyst" role, which rule is essential?
Question 4 of 4
What goes into the context file deserves care because...skill
Choose an option. The explanation appears after your attempt.