10 Powerful Ways to 10x Your Productivity using ChatGPT

Unlock the Full Potential of ChatGPT for Daily Tasks and Projects

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Trey Layton
June 06, 2024

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10 Effective Ways to Boost Productivity Using ChatGPT

You don’t use ChatGPT enough.

You’ve probably used Sam Altman’s Athena to write an email or help with homework. You might even be a repeat user, but the average person doesn’t use it weekly. The platform reports 180 million monthly active users, with only 12% being American.

While you’re prolly using ChatGPT far more often than your average middle American professional, you’re still missing out on massive improvements in overall productivity and the potential to turn literally any idea into reality.

While you can use ChatGPT to help brainstorm, the advice might be generic:

actual response to the question “what are 10 ways i can use chatgpt in my daily life?”

However, I’ve spent an embarrassing amount of time using ChatGPT. In fact, I genuinely believe that I have amassed more than 2500 hours using the tool, helping with everything from drafting, editing, and optimizing content and emails, to even building full-scale software generating monthly recurring revenue.

Oh yeah, and I didn’t even know how to code.

So, from my own personal learning, here are 10 ways to actually use ChatGPT to 10x today.

  1. Job Applications

    • Sure, you probably already know that you can use ChatGPT to draft answers to application questions, but these answers are going to be generic trash, and every company worth even applying to is going to use detection software

    • Instead, take some time to provide every bit of context that you can, from a super detailed description of your job history and responsibilities to your goals and aspirations professionally

    • Then, manually answer a few of your most generic application questions (“What is your proudest achievement?”, “Tell us about a time you failed at something in the workplace.”, etc)

    • From here, you have two ways to use ChatGPT to increase the velocity and quality of applications:

      1. Resume: upload your existing resume, and tell ChatGPT to revise it based on your actual experience and ambitions (if you don’t have a resume, this can work from scratch, too)

      2. Tailored applications: paste the job description into the chat as well as any application questions you need to answer, and tell ChatGPT to provide an answer to the question based on your background and personal writing style

  2. Building Tools:

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