ChatGPT’s Favorite Productivity Habits

How to make your life more productive according to AI

Joseph Mavericks
Mind Cafe
Published in
9 min readFeb 2, 2023

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In the past month, ChatGPT has seen a huge increase in popularity. Students use it to write their papers, bloggers use it to write articles, bored people use it to have conversations… ChatGPT is one of the most advanced and mainstream AI there is at the moment, so why not ask it about how to live a better, more productive life?

I came up with the idea to ask ChatGPT about great habits to become more productive because I’ve read a bunch of content around productivity, and I’ve written quite a bit myself too. I wanted to see if it would suggest anything novel, anything I hadn’t seen before.

I have to be honest and say that none of the 14 habits I selected from the 25 ChatGPT generated for me was something I either hadn’t tried or hadn’t heard before. That being said, I thought it would still make sense to list them down here because they are relevant for anyone looking to add more structure to their life. For each habit, I added my own “human” insights and my experience with it.

1. Set clear, specific, and measurable goals — Define what you want to accomplish and create a plan to achieve it

I have tried 2 main approaches to productivity in my entrepreneurship journey. The first one involves “simply” showing up and putting in the work, without worrying too much about the results. It is based on the premise that what matters is the input and having a clear plan, and that hard targets and goals are a distraction. When you put in the work, results come naturally. I tried this for a year, and I went from $0 to thousands of dollars in profit from my business with this approach.

I switched to the second approach after 1 year of not having targets. I started setting specific goals for myself to reach within a year, with a check-in halfway through (at 6 months). I reached 75% of my goals with this approach. There’s not one right way to build a business and become successful, but I do tend to believe that goals can be a distraction or a source of stress in the beginning. When you’re starting off, what matters is to show up every day and do the work, nothing else.

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Joseph Mavericks
Mind Cafe

Living with a purpose and improving myself is changing my life — I also make Youtube videos: bit.ly/3QAEXTm