She’s Running a Business, Writing a Book, and Getting a PhD—with ChatGPT- Ep. 11 with Anne-Laure Le Cunff
Feb 21, 2024
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Anne-Laure Le Cunff, founder of Ness Labs and a neuroscience PhD candidate, shares her secrets to productivity while juggling a business, writing a book, and pursuing academic goals. She reveals how ChatGPT enhances efficiency by breaking down complex research papers and generating tailored advice. Anne-Laure also discusses using AI to create eye-catching YouTube thumbnails and extract insights from her journaling. Her inspiring journey highlights the balance between technology and creativity for curious minds.
ChatGPT assists in creating YouTube thumbnails efficiently by providing design briefs based on transcripts.
ChatGPT serves as a developmental editor during writing outlines, suggesting additional article aspects for a thorough structure.
Utilizing ChatGPT for translation queries enhances writing clarity and accuracy by clarifying idioms and terms.
Deep dives
Using Chat GPT as a YouTube Thumbnail Strategist
When working on YouTube thumbnails, the speaker uses Chat GPT to create a design brief based on the transcript. By specifying the two pillars of creating a curiosity gap and using scroll stoppers, the speaker receives a brief that includes content, composition, and contrast suggestions. This allows for quick thumbnail creation and inspiration, reducing the time spent brainstorming and designing thumbnails.
Using Chat GPT as a Developmental Editor
The speaker uses Chat GPT as a developmental editor during the outlining stage of writing. After collecting relevant notes and tagging them in Rome, the speaker uploads the outline to Chat GPT. The AI provides feedback and suggests additional aspects that can be included in the article. This helps ensure a thorough and well-rounded outline, guiding the writing process and minimizing blind spots or missing arguments.
Using Chat GPT for Writing Assistance
Chat GPT is utilized during the writing process to address translation questions, clarify idioms, or assist in understanding specific terms. The speaker shows an example of asking Chat GPT to translate an English idiom into French. This helps improve clarity and ensures accurate usage of language during the writing process.
Choosing Between Chat GPT and Other AI Writing Tools
While the speaker mainly uses Chat GPT, they also explore other AI writing tools like Cloud AI for specific purposes. The speaker mentions that different AI tools might have varying strengths and can be used as alternatives when Chat GPT is struggling or for specific research needs. However, Chat GPT is generally the go-to tool for casual conversations, understanding concepts, and answering queries that are not easily found on search engines.
Insights from Meditation Log
The meditation log demonstrates a progression in the practice, self-awareness, and introspection. Physical sensations like discomfort and itchiness are common for beginners, but the log shows an increasing ability to manage discomfort through attention redirection. Body awareness is enhanced, allowing for a better understanding of physical sensations during meditation. Adjustments in posture, hand positions, and slight movements show a search for comfort and stability. Environmental factors like noise sensitivity are gradually incorporated into the meditation experience. Recommendations for improvement include using soft background sounds or white noise, exploring different seating arrangements, adjusting temperature control, maintaining proper posture, experimenting with hand positions, head and neck alignment, and considering the time of day for meditation sessions.
Enhancing Comfort in Meditation Sessions
To enhance comfort in meditation sessions, recommendations include adjusting the physical environment by managing noise with background sounds or using earplugs, experimenting with seating arrangements like cushions or chairs, maintaining a comfortable room temperature, achieving a straight yet relaxed posture with a slight forward tilt of the pelvis, choosing natural and comfortable hand positions, ensuring proper alignment of the head and neck, allowing for movement and posture adjustments without judgment, establishing a pre-meditation routine, and exploring different meditation styles. These tailored suggestions aim to create a more conducive setting and alleviate discomfort during meditation sessions.
Are you a curious person with a lot of ideas and little time?
Anne-Laure Le Cunff can show you how to do it all. Anne-Laure is the founder of one of my favorite internet communities for curious minds, Ness Labs, a prolific writer, and a neuroscience PhD candidate. She’s also writing a book, Liminal Minds, that’ll be out later this year.
And she said that the reason she can run a business, write a book, and do a PhD all at the same time is ChatGPT.
Anne-Laure is one of the busiest people I know, and in this episode we dive into how she uses ChatGPT to get everything done.
We get into:
How to use ChatGPT to be more efficient
Tips to break down research papers into digestible insights
How she leverages ChatGPT to revamp her YouTube thumbnails
Tips on using ChatGPT to write prolific articles
Doing deep research on the internet using ChatGPT
How to use ChatGPT to generate advice tailored for your needs
How to surface useful insights from your journal using ChatGPT
This is a must-watch for curious, creative people who want to get more done.
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