By skyforbes 
Smarter and simpler ways to use AI that no one told me about
When I first started using ChatGPT, I did what everyone else did — I asked it to write for me.
Blog posts. Captions. Emails. Even essays.
And sure, it worked.
But something always felt… off.
The words looked polished, but they didn’t sound like me.
They were perfect — in the same way that a mannequin is perfect: clean, flawless, lifeless.
That’s when I realized something:
I wasn’t using ChatGPT wrong — I was just using it shallowly.
Over the months, I learned how to use it smarter, not harder.
And that changed everything.
Here’s how I discovered the real power of ChatGPT — and how you can use it to think better, write faster, and live easier.
1. ChatGPT isn’t my assistant — it’s my thinking partner
At first, I treated ChatGPT like a typing machine.
Now, I treat it like a conversation partner.
Instead of saying: