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Hello Reader,
I've been playing with ChatGPT lately. Mostly to get the writing started, a point of research or brainstorming. As you can probably tell, these emails are not AI-generated, but just flow from my pen... well, fingers. I'd like to keep it that way, but for some copywriting tasks ChatGPT is incredibly useful.
To learn more about this new tool, I signed up for an AI Summit and am finally watching all the recordings. There are so many cool things that AI can do for us. But what comes through is that you have to be clear in your requests, you have to say what you want.
That brings me to clarity. Sometimes it is just annoying that I have to be clear about what I want. I DON'T KNOW, CAN'T YOU TELL ME? Do you know this thought? Often it's so much work to find out from the depths of my being what I want. Of course, when I know what I want, suddenly everything flows. I can express myself, I can make decisions and everything feels easier. But hell, getting there can be so much work.
Maybe I can ask ChatGPT for suggestions...
As always, have a happy week!
Anja
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Hi! I'm Anja. I explore happiness.
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