A free twenty-minute workbook

The Twenty Minutes
That Fix ChatGPT

Why it answers like a robot,
and how to make it answer like a friend.

You asked it something. It handed back a paragraph that sounded like a brochure written by a committee — balanced, agreeable, faintly encouraging, useless. And you thought: this is what everyone is excited about?

That reaction was correct. It was also incomplete.

What you met was the factory setting. It does not know a single thing about you, so it writes for everybody — and writing for everybody is how you get writing for nobody. Tell it who it is talking to and most of the vagueness disappears. That is not a trick or a secret prompt. It is a settings page almost nobody opens.

This workbook is twenty minutes, in four parts, written for people who already tried this thing and were not impressed. No jargon. No breathless twenty-five-year-old implying you are behind.

What is in it

  • The four settings that actually matter — and the ones you can safely ignore.
  • The three boxes that kill the robot voice — ten minutes once, and every answer improves from then on.
  • How to ask so you get a real answer — the four things a request needs, shown side by side.
  • Straight talk — where it is confidently wrong, and what should never be pasted into it.

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Start with Part Two — the three boxes. That is the part that does the work.