An ongoing discussion that Damien and I have is around my need to “do” (mentioned in a few other posts) and how I don’t know how to just “rest” or “relax.” The chapter I read this morning in Effortless was titled “Rest: The Art of Doing Nothing.”...
One of the benefits of ChatGPT and similar tools is speed. They can create and output things quickly. Usually much faster than you would if you did it from scratch.
A lot of times the output isn’t what you are looking for. The good news with that is that you can use...
One of the books that has had the most impact on me (and one that I have read multiple times) is A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William Irvine. After being introduced to Stoicism by reading one of Ryan Holiday’s books (I can’t recall if I read ...
Today, I’m heading down a path of reexamining my daily gratitude practice. Incorporating this daily practice has been a habit of mine for many years and continues to be reinforced in the books I have read over the years (see a list at the bottom). In one of the chapters I...
One of OpenAIs recommendations to simplify complex prompts for ChatGPT is to use “trigger/instruction” pairs.
In this case, a “trigger” is a cause for something to happen, and the “instruction” contains the details of what will happen.
A delimiter is simply a boundary. They are used to separate individual characters, words, URLs, and all kinds of data.
As a quick example, here are a few ways I could use delimiters for the numbers 1 - 10:
The overall thread I seem to be following today is about reframing.
I subscribe to Ozan Varol’s newsletter, and yesterday, he had a profound message that I think I will find ways to incorporate into my personal and business life. He said, “Instead of asking ‘What do you...
You can use ChatGPT to improve a piece of writing or just make it different.
This can be an email, a blog post, marketing copy, a grant proposal, a contract (be careful with legal docs though), a white paper, a book review, etc. Any type of writing that you can feed into...
Despite my realization yesterday that the same messages and patterns keep repeating, it still fascinates me when I see them pop up. This morning, I was reading Effortless, and McKeown writes, “Our brain is wired to resist what it perceives as hard and welcome what it...
SPAR is another short, general-purpose framework
It stands for Scenario, Problem, Action, Result
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