Stop using ChatGPT like a vending machine

Most people treat ChatGPT like a vending machine.

Type something in.

Get something out.

Shrug. "Good enough." (Usually it's not.)

Next.

It works. Kinda.

In the same way that using a Ferrari to deliver newspapers "works.

But here's what's actually happening beneath the surface: every time you use AI this way, you're reinforcing a classic cognitive bias psychologists call "satisficing" -accepting the first adequate solution rather than the optimal one.

And in the AI world, that bias is costing you.

You're already ahead of the pack if you've been following this series.

You've turned your chats into conversations by having the AI ask YOU questions.

You've learned to feed it context so it doesn't create drab, obvious answers.

That's solid. But there's a whole other gear most people never find.

Here's the shift that changes everything:

Not your ghostwriter. Not a magic "make it good" button.

A second brain that makes your first one sharper. If you let it.

When you brain-dump into ChatGPT like you're explaining something to a smart friend at 2am, something weird happens.

You're not just saving time. You're teaching it to think like you.

It absorbs how you talk.

How you jump between ideas.

What makes you lean forward in your chair.

Where you pause and second-guess yourself.

There's a hidden feedback loop here that almost nobody recognizes: the more you show AI how you think, the more it can help you think better.

Most people never give it that chance.

They want "killer copy" without ever showing the AI what their version of "killer" actually sounds like.

And that's exactly why their emails feel like they were written by... well, an AI.

I've been obsessing over this approach in my own process lately.

And it's the foundation of what I'm building next.

It's for people who are ready to graduate beyond prompt hacking and develop a repeatable system for writing emails that sound like them, not some internet marketing robot... emails that actually drive results.

If that's you, and you want first dibs when this drops, reply with "Brains."

Thanks for reading,

Nathan

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