Summary of "How You Can Use ChatGPT to Change Your Life"
Summary of Key Wellness, Self-Care, and Productivity Strategies Using AI (ChatGPT and Other LLMs)
Using AI for Self-Improvement
AI can help identify personal blind spots by analyzing your conversation history. For example, you might prompt:
“Based on everything you know about me, what are my biggest blind spots? How are they holding me back? Give me the top three examples.”
This approach allows AI to reveal emotional, behavioral, and cognitive blind spots you might not recognize yourself.
Advanced Prompting Techniques
To get better results from AI, break down your prompts into structured sections:
- Role: Define the role the AI should play (e.g., expert psychologist, executive coach).
- Objective: Specify the mission or goal for the AI’s response.
- Instructions: Provide detailed guidelines on how to answer (e.g., be honest, reason from first principles).
- Output: Define the format and detail level of the answer (e.g., summary, list of blind spots, micro experiments).
- Tone and Style: Specify how the AI should communicate (e.g., curious, non-judgmental, incisive).
Using AI to Interview Yourself
You can ask AI to generate a series of tailored questions to uncover hidden issues or clarify goals. The AI adapts questions based on your answers to deepen insight, helping you create personalized, actionable plans.
Goal-Setting and Action Planning with AI
Use AI as an executive coach to:
- Define clear, measurable goals.
- Understand motivations (e.g., “Why now?”).
- Identify bottlenecks and constraints.
- Design environmental supports for success.
- Predict risks and failure modes.
- Create “if-then” safeguards.
- Establish a weekly review or action cadence.
- Generate minimum viable next steps to start immediately.
Reflecting on Failures and Challenges
Have AI act as a personal strategist to analyze recent failures. AI can:
- Identify faulty assumptions.
- Highlight ignored signals or trade-offs.
- Apply cognitive frameworks to decision-making.
- Provide executive summaries with root causes and counterintuitive insights.
- Suggest experiments and mantras to adopt moving forward.
Choosing the Right AI Model Based on Needs
- ChatGPT: Great for structured lists, motivation, and detailed explanations but can be overly verbose or “try-hard.”
- Claude: Best for emotional intelligence, psychological advice, and clear communication.
- Gemini: Strong on practical, technical, and data synthesis tasks; less emotionally nuanced.
- Grock: Provides blunt, honest feedback but may be unreliable with numbers or projections.
Best Practices for Using AI Effectively
- Provide rich context and background for better answers.
- Use multiple AI models to get diverse perspectives.
- Run the same prompt multiple times to compare responses.
- Ask AI how to improve your prompt if the answer is unsatisfactory.
- Avoid vague or emotionally unstructured inputs to prevent shallow or validating-only responses.
- Use AI as a tool for reflection, planning, and self-coaching rather than passive question-answering.
Additional Resources
The presenter offers a free PDF with seven powerful AI prompts for personal growth and productivity at: markmanson.net/iprompts
Presenters / Sources
- Mark Manson (presenter and creator of the AI prompt methodologies)
Category
Wellness and Self-Improvement
