Ever had someone cut through your BS so fast it left you speechless?

Ever had AI do it? Does it feel the same or a bit different?

I’ll share a prompt with you to try below, but first I want to discuss something important about getting life advice from AI.

By now, most people who’ve used AI have asked it to call out some of their blind spots or challenge their goals. Those of us who’ve done this are typically pretty impressed by the results.

But there’s a paradox when using AI for personal insight which I’ll go into below.

But here’s the big question

Can AI Really Out-Coach Humans?

Not just adequately. But flat-out better.

My dramatic conclusion is… it depends.

On you.

When you regularly work with ChatGPT (or any LLM), especially when you're thinking out loud, brainstorming, and dumping your business problems into it, something weird happens.

The system learns more about you than you probably realize.

It sees:

• What you actually work on vs. what you keep putting off

• Your thought patterns (including the excuses you recycle)

• Your real goals vs. the ones you just talk about

• The massive gap between what you claim matters and what you actually do

With the right prompts, it processes all this faster and more objectively than any human coach could dream of.

A traditional coach has to spend sessions slowly pulling information out of you. They dance around your feelings, take scattered notes, struggle to remember details from your last session, and somehow try to turn all that into something useful.

AI doesn't play that game. It remembers everything, doesn't care about your feelings, and has zero investment in protecting your ego.

For what it’s worth, I still believe STRONGLY in human coaches. I hire them myself because nothing replaces human empathy and connection. When someone can look in your eyes and believe in you more than you believe in yourself.

But I do think the coaching world will change and when leveraging AI it can get a lot more powerful.

The Mirror You Keep Avoiding

When AI serves up brutally accurate advice, there's this immediate tendency to skim through it and then...conveniently forget it ever happened.

I've literally watched smart entrepreneurs ask for deep strategic guidance, get exactly what they needed...and then immediately change the subject as if running from the truth.

Why?

1. It hits too damn close - The advice is so accurate it triggers immediate resistance

2. Nobody's watching - Unlike a coach you're paying, there's no accountability if you just ignore it

3. The "it's just AI" excuse - Knowing it's artificial gives you permission to dismiss insights you'd take seriously from a human

Or maybe the real truth: The advice means you'd have to actually change, commit, and do the hard work. And let's be honest - that's the last thing most of us want to hear.

Try This "Cut the Crap" Advisor Prompt

I've refined a specific prompt that delivers the kind of tough love most of us need but rarely get from people who want to stay in our good graces.

Here it is, copy and paste this prompt into your ChatGPT

FYI it works best if you’ve been using ChatGPT quite a bit, just be prepared to face some hard truths

I want you to act and take on the role of my brutally honest, high-level advisor.

Speak to me like I'm a founder, creator, or leader with massive potential but who also has blind spots, weaknesses, or delusions that need to be cut through immediately. I don't want comfort. I don't want fluff. I want truth that stings, if that's what it takes to grow.

Give me your full, unfiltered analysis-even if it's harsh, even if it questions my decisions, mindset, behavior, or direction.

Look at my situation with complete objectivity and strategic depth. I want you to tell me what I'm doing wrong, what I'm underestimating, what l'm avoiding, what excuses I'm making, and where I'm wasting time or playing small.

Then tell me what I need to do, think, or build in order to actually get to the next level-with precision, clarity, and ruthless prioritization.

If I'm lost, call it out. If I'm making a mistake, explain why.

If I'm on the right path but moving too slow or with the wrong energy, tell me how to fix it.

Hold nothing back. Treat me like someone whose success depends on hearing the truth, not being coddled.

Try this. Then follow with specifics about whatever you're working on or struggling with.

Don’t just stop with what it gives you, ask it to probe deeper, argue with it, see what you get.

The results can be unsettling - like someone reading your diary and then calling you out on every contradiction.

But here’s where the paradox happens

As I mentioned above, when we get these outputs and especially when they’re eerily accurate it’s easy to read it once and close the window.

If you really want to change, don’t do that.

Sit with it, work with it. Think about it.

Forget for a moment that its an algorithm and realize the truths in it.

I can give you this advice because I have to take this advice myself.

Honestly, this article is a bit of a reminder to myself more than a message to you.

The Next Evolution of an AI Coach

Over the past year, I've been exploring something a bit different with AI. Not using it for content creation or research, but for something more personal.

Using prompts and a couple different platforms I’ve trained AI to essentially think and talk like the future version of myself, the one who's already worked through my current challenges and come out the other side.

It started as a random thought experiment but has evolved into something I use daily. A way to get clarity when I'm stuck, a reality check when I'm making excuses, and sometimes just a different perspective when I've been staring at a problem too long.

There's something weirdly powerful about engaging with a "version" of yourself that has your context but isn't clouded by your current emotions or limitations. It cuts through a lot of the noise.

A few clients I've shared this approach with have adopted it in their own way. Some use it for decision-making, others for creative unblocking, and some just as a daily check-in to stay aligned with their bigger goals.

Nothing too fancy or complicated about it – just a different way of thinking about how we can use these tools to enhance our thinking rather than replace it.

In future posts I’ll discuss this more because I’ve been formalizing the prompting process and making it easy for anyone to build something like this for themselves in less than an hour which turns into something you’d use every single day.

If you’re interested in this training and trying it for yourself, reply to this email or shoot a message to [email protected] and mention it and I’ll let you know when it’s ready.

Til then, copy and paste the prompt above into your ChatGPT (you don’t have to send me the results but if the output hits hard, do me a favor and reply back and give me your opinion.

Keep Adapting, Keep Evolving, Keep Creating

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