By skyforbes 
I’ll confess something blunt. The first time I watched ChatGPT finish my paragraph, I felt like I had discovered a cheat code.
It was intoxicating. Instant clarity. Instant output. Instant applause from my own brain.
Then, quietly, I noticed a pattern. My ideas were thinner. My thinking is shallower. My curiosity outsourced to autocomplete.
If that sounds familiar, this piece is for you. I will show the exact, practical way to use ChatGPT so you stay the driver, not the passenger. You will leave 99 percent of users behind. No hype. No fluff. Real tactics you can use today.
The brutal truth you need to accept first
Most people use ChatGPT like a smarter search box.
They toss shallow prompts. They accept neat replies. They iterate by asking for the same thing again, a little differently.
That strategy works for convenience. It does not build an advantage.
What separates the top one percent is simple. They treat the model as a thinking partner, not a text mill. They force it to reveal its chain of reasoning. They test it. They make…