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Elevate Letter #42: 6 Tips to Make Consistency Feel Easy
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Ajay Malhotra
March 30, 2025 • Reading Time: 11 minutes
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Reminded me of another one of my favorite quotes:
"A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought—they must be earned."
People always say, "Showing up is half the battle."
But in reality, it's more like 80%.
If you can consistently show up, you’ve already overcome the biggest obstacle to success.
So how do we make it feel automatic?
There are basically two levers we can pull:
Make starting easier (duh).
Make skipping harder.
To make starting easier, it all comes down to lowering the activation energy of whatever task you're trying to do.
Here are 3 of my favorite ways to achieve this:
The "next tiny move" - When you're stuck or overwhelmed, ask: What's my next tiny move? Not the whole project. Just the next step.
Remove friction in advance - Lay out your gym clothes the night before. Prep your meals on Sunday. Eliminate excuses before they show up.
Commit to your calendar - What gets scheduled gets done. Block time for the things that matter—and honor it like any other appointment.
To make skipping harder, you need to make the discomfort of avoidance so high that going through with your commitment actually feels like the easier option.
Here are 3 strategies I use:
Commit financially - Pay for a class, a course, or a coach in advance. Money is the ultimate motivator, use it to your advantage.
Get an accountability buddy - Find someone with a similar goal. Check in regularly. You’re less likely to ghost your goals if someone’s expecting you.
Anti-rewards – Set a consequence for skipping. If you miss your workout, you owe your friend $20… or worse, you donate to a cause you hate. Nothing lights a fire like a little pain.
Make it easy to start.
Make it hard to skip.
Do that, and showing up becomes your default setting.
Easily the best article(Good enough prompting by Ethan Mollick) I've read about AI prompting.
To test out its lessons, I used AI to write up this summary of the key points, enjoy!
1. AI’s potential is wasted without the right approach.
Doctors using GPT-4 for diagnoses performed no better than those without it—and both did worse than GPT-4 alone.
Why?
They treated the AI like a search engine, asking narrow, factual questions instead of giving it full context and leveraging its ability to synthesize complex information.
2. Prompt engineering isn’t the place to start.
While some advocate for learning prompt engineering right away, the article emphasizes that this can be unnecessarily intimidating.
Instead, the key is spending 10 hours using AI on tasks you care about.
This hands-on experience helps you naturally develop the intuition needed to prompt effectively.
Advanced techniques can come later if they’re even necessary.
3. Treat AI like an infinitely patient coworker, not an intern.
The common advice to think of AI as an intern might be limiting—it makes people overly cautious and directive. Instead, treat AI as a new coworker who:
• Is highly capable but needs specific guidance.
• Forgets everything at the end of each conversation.
• Has infinite patience and never tires of iterating.
This mindset shift encourages collaboration and experimentation.
Start by using AI in areas where you’re already an expert, so you can quickly spot when it’s right or wrong and guide it effectively.
4. Be clear and detailed in your prompts.
The article provides actionable advice for crafting better prompts:
• Specify exactly what you want, e.g., instead of asking for “the pros and cons of remote learning,” ask for “the pros and cons of remote learning tailored to a regional university in the Midwestern U.S. that could convince a business school dean to fund a program.”
• Use examples of good or bad responses (few-shot prompting) to guide the AI.
• Provide step-by-step instructions for the desired outcome.
• If the AI gets something wrong, give feedback or ask it to clarify its reasoning.
5. Use the AI’s strengths—abundance and adaptability.
Unlike humans, AI doesn’t get annoyed or impatient, making it perfect for iteration. Use this to your advantage:
• Ask for multiple drafts, e.g., “Give me 15 options in different tontones.a•
• Push for variation, e.g., “Make this idea 80% weirder.”
• Combine and refine outputs, e.g., “Merge ideas 12 and 16.”
Research shows GPT-4 can generate thousands of unique ideas before overlapping.
This abundance allows you to explore far more options than you might with traditional brainstorming.
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Source: milani creative
If you keep falling short, aim higher
Most people lower their goals when they fail. Winners raise their approach instead.
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