{"id":5515,"date":"2025-10-09T17:25:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/uncategorized\/im-bad-at-writing-hooks-like-really-bad\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T17:25:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:25:13","slug":"im-bad-at-writing-hooks-like-really-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/uncategorized\/im-bad-at-writing-hooks-like-really-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"<a href=https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A7382103860187729920>I\u2019m bad at writing hooks. Like\u2026 really bad.<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m bad at writing hooks. Like\u2026 really bad. <\/p>\n<p>So I did something this week I&#8217;d never done before: I asked ChatGPT for help.<\/p>\n<p>It gave me 15 hooks in ten seconds. And most were better than mine.<\/p>\n<p>Why didn\u2019t I try this sooner?<\/p>\n<p>Because I\u2019m stubborn &#8211; I take pride in my writing, and asking for help feels like cheating. <\/p>\n<p>Plus I had gotten so used to being bad at it that I didn\u2019t even think to get better &#8211; I thought the hooks I wrote were good enough. If people didn&#8217;t read my stuff because the hook wasn&#8217;t catchy, it&#8217;s their loss.<\/p>\n<p>But I write these posts to help people, and I can&#8217;t help people who don&#8217;t see my posts. My stubbornness was limiting my impact. <\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>Where might you be limiting your impact because you don&#8217;t want to ask for help?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m bad at writing hooks. Like\u2026 really bad. So I did something this week I&#8217;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\u2019t I try this sooner? Because I\u2019m stubborn &#8211; I take pride in my writing, and asking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}