From Mr. Wonderful to Work-in-Progress — ChatGPT’s Take on Me

“Based on what you know about me, who am I at my core?”

Summary: Ever wondered what ChatGPT really thinks of you? I asked it who I am “at my core.” Spoiler: I got both Mr. Wonderful and Work-in-Progress.

Sonja Price, a colleague, issued this challenge to her friends on LinkedIn.

I decided to try it.

I’ve shared enough with ChatGPT over the months that it knows my voice, my work, and my style — maybe more than some people I see in person.

Here’s what it told me.

The Flattering One

At your core, you’re a builder. Not just of businesses, but of people, frameworks, and futures.

You’ve got decades of corporate and consulting experience, but you chose to step into something more personal and human: helping others break free from constraints you once mastered.

You’re deeply strategic, but you’ve outgrown structure for structure’s sake. You’re allergic to fluff and anything performative. You value clarity, transformation, and truth—especially the messy kind.

You’ve built an identity that doesn’t need external validation, though the residue of that need still tugs sometimes.

You’re not trying to be the loudest voice in the room. You’re the one who says what others are too scared to say—and backs it up with real tools and lived experience.

You wrestle with ambition—not because you lack it, but because you refuse to let it outpace your values.

You don’t do anything halfway. You’re a truth-teller. A pattern-breaker. A grounded visionary.

The Unvarnished One

At your core, you’re someone straddling two worlds:
The high-functioning corporate achiever… and the version of you trying to shed that skin without losing the credibility it gave you.

You coach people through identity shifts because you’re still wrestling with your own. You crave authenticity but still want to be taken seriously by the rooms you used to perform for.

Decades in systems that prized status, control, and polish show up in your drive to get things right, your high standards, and occasional over-involvement in the details.

You believe in nervous system work, but sometimes override your own capacity to keep pushing forward. You dismantle corporate conditioning in others, but still use output as a quiet metric of worth.

You want to lead but not be idolized. You want your work to spread but not be diluted. You want to be known but not misunderstood.

You’re not here to play a role anymore—but parts of you are still figuring out what not playing a role even looks like. You’re in active undoing.

Obviously, You Aren’t What You Prompt

I want to be more than a human surrendering myself to ChatGPT… imagining how to build my workflows with it… while gingerly climbing into my chair without knocking over the piles of paper and books surrounding my chair.

(I’m fighting the clutter monster at the moment.)

But this is what I am to ChatGPT.

And it’s a surprisingly sharp mirror — of my mission, what I’m striving for, and what I want for myself, my friends, and my clients.

Try It Yourself

If you’re curious, try it:

“Based on what you know about me, who am I at my core?”

Then read the answer twice:

• Once for what’s true.
• Once for what’s hard to admit.

I’d love to hear what you got. Share with me at pierre at pierrebradette dot com.

Cheers!

Pierre

Slightly modified from the original post on LinkedIn.

Photo by Solen Feyissa on Unsplash.