A novelist technique is to recount a single event from different character's perspectives.
But I have usually found myself all of several characters at the same time, living almost parallel lives that intertwine. Work, family, hobby, internal dialogues all make a day or a year not exactly the same depending on how I remember it. So here I tell my same story from those various viewpoints..
A normal biographer would begin with this story of my life, which I may expand periodically
Almost a Renaissance kind of art form, but mostly it payed the bills