I’m bad at writing hooks. Like… really bad.
So I did something this week I’d never done before: I asked ChatGPT for help.
It gave me 15 hooks in ten seconds. And most were better than mine.
Why didn’t I try this sooner?
Because I’m stubborn – I take pride in my writing, and asking for help feels like cheating.
Plus I had gotten so used to being bad at it that I didn’t even think to get better – I thought the hooks I wrote were good enough. If people didn’t read my stuff because the hook wasn’t catchy, it’s their loss.
But I write these posts to help people, and I can’t help people who don’t see my posts. My stubbornness was limiting my impact.
LLMs are great at delivering above-average output for most tasks, so they are likely better than me at the things I am bad at. Using ChatGPT will let me focus on my strengths, while increasing my impact by improving on my weaknesses.
In other words, I have to stop thinking of asking for help as cheating; instead, it lets me have greater impact and help more people.
Where might you be limiting your impact because you don’t want to ask for help?