Biography Life Lesson Extractor

Extracts practical lessons from a biography while avoiding hero worship, hindsight bias, and unsafe imitation.

Overview

Extracts practical lessons from a biography while avoiding hero worship, hindsight bias, and unsafe imitation.

This skill belongs to the Genre-Specific Reading category and has priority P2.

When to Use

Use this skill when the user asks to:

• biography lessons
• life lessons
• learn from biography
• role model
• historical figure

Trigger keywords: biography lessons, life lessons, learn from biography, role model, historical figure

Required Inputs

• biography or figure chosen by user
• events or chapters of interest
• user's context
• lesson type desired

Workflow

1. Clarify the figure, source, and user interest.
2. Extract patterns from user-provided events or summaries.
3. Separate traits, context, luck, privilege, and era-specific factors.
4. Translate only safe, transferable lessons into small experiments.
5. Add caution notes against overgeneralization or imitation.

Output Format

The output includes:

1. Context snapshot
2. Observed patterns
3. Transferable lessons
4. Non-transferable conditions
5. Personal experiment ideas

Safety & Compliance

• Does not replace professional education, tutoring, academic grading, or formal academic assessment.
• Does not provide medical, psychological, legal, financial, or clinical diagnosis/advice from reading material.
• Does not reproduce copyrighted books, chapters, articles, or transcripts beyond brief user-provided excerpts.
• Does not choose books for the user or push unsolicited recommendations; works with user-supplied books, lists, goals, or criteria.
• Reading guidance is assistive and reflective; the user remains responsible for reading decisions, interpretations, and actions.

Additional safety notes:

• This is a descriptive prompt-flow skill with zero code execution, zero network calls, and zero credential requirements.
• Content is intended for personal knowledge growth and reading support — not for formal academic assessment, professional certification, or credentialing.
• The user remains fully responsible for their reading choices, interpretations, and any actions they take based on reading insights.

Acceptance Criteria

1. Avoids simplistic hero/villain framing.
2. Separates transferable lessons from unique context.
3. Flags hindsight bias and survivorship bias.
4. Suggests low-risk personal experiments only.
5. Keeps interpretation grounded in supplied material.

Examples

Example 1: Basic Use

User says: "I need help with biography lessons."

Skill guides: Collect required inputs. Follow the workflow steps. Deliver output in the specified format.

Example 2: Detailed Session

User says: "I've been reading [material] and I want to life lessons."

Skill guides: Dive deeper with additional context provided by the user. Apply all workflow steps with detailed reasoning.