I got an email from a writer I follow online titled: How to create 1,000 content ideas in 11 minutes.
With the first line revealing the secret as: “…look no further than ChatGPT.”
And while I have no doubt that this is possible and true… the thought of 1,000 content ideas produced in a matter of minutes for me to then process gives me ANXIETY.
Sure, I know I don’t have to read through and process them all—but, why create them then?
If there’s anything I’ve learned from writing 1,200+ days in a row now… it’s that we don’t need 1,200 ideas to write about right now. Or in 11 minutes for that matter.
What we need is just one idea to focus on just for today.
And the best way, from my experience, to come up with that idea isn’t to default to ChatGPT—it’s to look within and spend a good chunk of time in uncomfortable quietness / boredom.
While it’s true that ChatGPT gets better the more we use it (and we at understanding how to use it), what also gets better the more we use it is… get this… our imagination.
…And imagination seems to be in a proportional decline as ChatGPT usage continues to spike.
But, it doesn’t have to be that way for us.