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You're Barely using ChatGPT
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Good morning, You're barely using ChatGPT to its fullest capabilities. Now, I'm sure you use ChatGPT to write emails and answer questions throughout your day. Those are useful shortcuts, but they barely scratch the surface of what you can actually do with it. Today, I’ll show you five levels that can help you move beyond basic prompting and get significantly more value from ChatGPT. And tomorrow, I'm going to share an absolute game changer with you. Don't miss it. Cogito ____ (coming soon):Coming August 10th 👀 What's Going on:Think about your ChatGPT use in five levels:
If you wanna be more advanced, move past level 1. How do you primarily use ChatGPT?
Why it matters to you:If you only use ChatGPT for individual requests, you have to restart the process every time. You explain the task, you provide context, you correct mistakes and then you do it all over the next time. Instead, identify work you do repeatedly and build a reusable process around it (further explained tomorrow). If you write a weekly report, for example, ChatGPT could help analyze your data, identify important changes, draft the report, challenge weak conclusions, and format the final version. Redesign the workflow and reap the benefits forever. Prompt of the Day:Act as my AI workflow strategist and ask me about the tasks I repeat every week. Once you understand them, identify the three tasks where AI could save me the most time. For each one, break the task into steps, explain what you can handle and what requires my judgment, then create a reusable workflow I can follow every time. Save Time/Money:Open your ChatGPT history and look at the requests you’ve made over the past month. Find something you’ve asked it to do more than once. Instead of writing another prompt from scratch, create a reusable template containing your goal, context, preferred output, constraints, examples, and review criteria (don't miss tomorrow's email to learn more). If you repeatedly spend ten minutes (or more) explaining the same task before ChatGPT can help, then you're wasting keystrokes. Your easiest AI productivity win is already in your chat history. Newsletter Rec:Subscribe to I Hate it Here. Their email is weekly and it's exactly for overworked/emotionally burned out HR people. I know a handful of you who read Cogito work in HR, so I wanted to share this one directly with you.
Before you go, try one thing today: take a task you normally give ChatGPT and move it up one level. Give it more context and see how much of the process it can handle for you. And make sure you open tomorrow’s email. I’m going to show you something that completely changed how I think about using ChatGPT, and I think you’re going to want to try it immediately. Zack |
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