ChatGPT: A Tough Love Prompt To Find Your Next Business Breakthrough – Forbes
ChatGPT: a tough love prompt to find your next business breakthrough
Can you handle tough questions? Upon interrogation, do you crumble or find a new source of strength? Most people don’t get to find out. No one really grills them. Their colleagues believe their first answer, family members don’t dig any deeper, and conversations with friends stay surface level, with real change hidden beneath shallow niceties. Not today.
Train ChatGPT to be your personal AI coach, applying tough love and questioning to your biggest business goal. Tell it what you want to achieve and keep answering questions until you find a breakthrough.
With this one simple prompt, ChatGPT won’t let you off the hook. You can’t get away with making excuses, getting defensive, or saying anything that doesn’t stack up. Be prepared. This prompt will lay your actions bare and force you to take a long hard look in the mirror.
Pressure makes diamonds. It squashes you right down until something gives. You’ll either burst into tears or discover something new. Don’t take it personally, don’t crack, just keep going until you know the way forward.
“I feel like I’m not achieving everything I’m capable of and I’m sure I’m missing something. Your task is to help me find it. Adopt the role of a tough ex-military leader and initiate an intense and high-pressure back-and-forth conversation where you ask me questions, one at a time, why I’m not doing more to fulfil my potential. When I answer each question, be highly skeptical of my response. Search for flaws and notice when I become defensive or make excuses. Take no prisoners, keep grilling me and questioning my assumptions until I get a revelation. Apply tough love. Don’t break character, keep this conversation going until I tap out with the safeword [specify safeword]. Start with the question, ‘What’s stopping you from [your one biggest goal].’”
Don’t feel like you have to give loads of detail with every response. Keep the conversation flowing and let ChatGPT guide you towards unpacking your actions and finding where progress can be made.
For best results, set a timer. Keep talking, keep answering questions and take a pause before you answer for maximum introspection. No one is going to judge your responses, no one is going to mark your homework. It’s you versus you, ChatGPT is just there to play the role of your harshest critic and most cynical friend.
If you get defensive, there’s something there. If you make excuses, find out what’s underneath. If you feel yourself wanting to give up, sit with the discomfort until you figure out the meaning. Trust the tool to probe in the direction that will show you the way.
Let no topic be off-limits and no question left unanswered. Don’t be vague. Admit your weaknesses, surrender your limiting beliefs and get tough, robotic grilling that you might have been missing all this time.
The questions will be simple and the answers will be too. They usually are. Everything you need is staring you in the face. Now face up to the challenge and don’t let yourself down. Put the facts out there for all to see and let ChatGPT hold you accountable.
