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Hitomi Horiguchi：
AI helps to teach us knowledge, but I thought that experience would still be the key for humans.
ChatGPT:
Definitely! While AI systems like me can help provide information and facilitate learning, personal experience and hands-on learning are still crucial components of human growth and development.
Right. Knowledge is now available for free. But experience can’t be bought with money, and the wisdom that comes from experience is worth it. I have always been more about talking about my experiences than sharing knowledge with people, so I feel more confident that we are entering an age where experience will be increasingly valuable.
Now, what are the possibilities for my 2023? I decided to search for tarot readers and spiritual counselors on Google, as well as research the same consultation business as my own.
I noticed that the counseling industry had become so saturated that it was difficult to find someone who looked good. There were many fortune tellers and counselors registered on matching websites, and some were part of chains. It was more difficult to find someone who was doing it on their own.
But then I realized. I became a life coach when there were not many coaches, and I felt it was my role to spread coaching in Japan, so I wrote about my sessions on my blog every day. It was worth it, I recalled, as many of my clients said they wanted to become coaches and started studying. Saturation meant that I had more competition, but I could see that my activity had paid off.
And a tarot reader and spiritual counselor I found in the neighborhood told me the same thing. They said I had a future in contributing to the development of corporate human resources, using my old experiences. Immediately after I started my own business, I had a traumatic experience of failing to achieve results in consulting with small apparel companies. However, now that I have been outside the corporate world, coaching for 17 years this experience might tip the balance. This idea of blending old and new ideas appealed to me.
They both gave me a new perspective and made me look again at my past. I read the long client testimonials from my previous website and republished them on my current website. What a surprise, the customer testimonials have not expired. Perhaps it’s because the act of listening to others is a universal experience.
Then, I read back my previously produced coaching experience essays for the first time in 7 years. In the “Introduction” of the essays in which clients shared their experiences of my coaching, I wrote my own experiences and challenges in establishing my coaching career. My journey as a “life coach” is still ongoing and no one can surpass 17 years of my life coaching history unless I give up. Thinking about it, it feels like it’s worth continuing. Perhaps, that’s my life.