Discover your creative core with AI

Imagine this: you're trying to use AI to write a first draft of a blog post, but you're just missing something in the content and writing style that makes your work so special. Or you let AI come up with ideas for your podcast, but nothing useful comes out. Maybe it's because you're just really good at coming up with relevant topics that appeal to your audience.

This is what experts call your "creative core. It's that essential piece of your creative process that, if someone (or AI) were to take it away, would leave you feeling like you haven't actually created anything. It really pays to dwell on that and discover what that is for you. Because once you know, you can put all your energy into it.

AI as an addition to your creative core

For some of the processes that are outside your creative core, that's what you can very well start using AI for. Use AI tools as an assistant for everything but the one thing you see as your creative core.

Brainstorming: Let AI help you brainstorm and discover new ideas.
Fast research: AI can look up and summarize all kinds of information in no time.
Critical eye: Ask AI for feedback to sharpen your work. For example, the structure of what you wrote, grammar or writing style.
Video and audio editing: You can increasingly use AI to edit webinars or podcasts, for example. Such as improving quality, adding subtitles, converting spoken text to written text (which you can then use again for a blog post) and creating short clips that you can use for social media posts.
Minutes: AI is a perfect assistant to record consultations, summarize and note the action items.
Order in chaos: Use AI to structure your notes and get the gist out of your ideas.

Keep experimenting, training and don't give up too soon

When getting started with AI tools, it's important not to throw in the towel right away if you don't get the results you envision soon enough. Start seeing AI as an assistant that is available to you everywhere 24/7, that you can train and that can help you get better and better. Experiment with different tools and applications, start with small, simple tasks and keep refining your approach.

Sometimes the challenge is in how you ask your question to the AI, or you haven't trained the AI well enough. And sometimes the technology just isn't good enough yet to fully perform a task. But be patient, because as long as AI continues to improve at a breakneck pace, the points you're stuck on now may work well in a few weeks or months.

What is your creative core? And how can you use AI to optimize everything around it, giving you more and more time to do what you love and do best? Think about it, it could just give you new insights and a boost to your creativity.

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