Passions Unlocked – Ignite Curiosity and Find your Niche with the help of GPT4

I started using GPT4 to help me identify my passions and uncover hidden niches that stand out in the market.

It’s been fascinating and already started pointing the way towards what I might learn and write about in the future.

If you want to define what you’re passionate about and identify a unique niche for yourself, this process will get you there in just 20 minutes.

What the “The Passion Debate” Misses? Flow

Contrary to what everyone says, following your passion is not a selfish pursuit.

It's also not the antithesis of performance.

Science is showing us that following your passion IS a key ingredient for developing your career opportunities. The reason is that passion (or intrinsic motivation) is a precursor to flow.

Research is showing us that when you're passionate about your work, you're more likely to experience flow states.

Flow states are experiences of total immersion and peak performance. It’s a biological experience that not only feels good, but produces incredible results:

• People are up to 400-500% more productive with flow.
• Our memory can improve by 250%
• It feels amazing and fuels peak performance.

Basically, having passion makes you more productive than any note-taking app or automation will.

So, If passion is a precursor to flow states, how do we discover what we're passionate about? Do we even have passions or is that something that just happens to other people?

And how do people use their passions to define unique niches for themselves in the market?

What I've learned has helped me see almost limitless potential in the options I have for what to focus on, and infinite ways to find unique niches that almost no one else has ever seen done before.

Getting Bored by What's Out There

This all started because I began to get bored with the topics people are typically writing about.

As I learn more about the "content" game I see how people tend to talk about the same things over and over again. I was wanting to stretch more to the edges.

This also follows my personal learning journey, and after you cover some of the basics you want to get to the edges, not what everyone already knows and regurgitates.

I also am not one of those people who knew what I was passionate about since age five.

Plus, much of what I get passionate about changes over time.

Passion and Flow are Interconnected

It wasn't until I started digging more into Steven Kotler's work at the Flow Research Collective that I began to understand more about my own relationship to passion and flow states.

Through his work I started realizing...

What if passions are always available to us, and right within reach?

And, what if you could quickly and easily define new passions for yourself any time you wanted?

We don't need to stay bored, and we don't need to miss the opportunities that come from identifying our passions.

How to Define Your Current Passions in 5 minutes.

To define what my passions are, I made a simple listing topics or activities that excited me. This is anything that I'm?currently?most curious about.

Ask yourself, and make a list:

• What would I happily talk to someone at a party about for 30 minutes?
• What would I want to read more about on the weekends with my free time?

To improve this, get as specific as possible with what you list.

Instead of "I like football" adding something like "I am interested in how new formations for defense are changing how quarterbacks start every play."

Personally here are two things I've been more interested in:

• When GPT4 becomes an Audio medium and how that will relate to coaching.
• "Dark retreats" which are meditations in total darkness for 3 days.

How to work with GPT4

If you get stuck, you can also ask GPT4 to generate extra ideas related to these topics. So, paste in your list of bullet points and ask the AI to generate more ideas related to what you've shared.

Stacking Your Passions to experience even more Flow.

Now that I had a list of about 10 bullet points of things I'm currently really curious about, I wanted to dial up the passion.

Kotler's research shows that not only does passion drive flow, but stacking multiple passions together delivers even more opportunity for flow.

For example, let's say you're interested in surfing.

Let's say you also have a curiosity about photography.

Becoming a "Surf photographer" gives you the potential for even more passion (which means even more flow).

The trick here is that you can use GPT4 to mix and match your passions in new and novel ways.

Work with GPT4 to Discover Your Niche of 1

Now that I have a current list of 10 or so items in my GPT4 chat, I prompted the AI to begin?combining?these separate ideas in unique and novel ways.

Give GPT4 your list of things you're curious about, and ask it to mix and match them in unique ways to create entirely new fields of study.

For example it might take:

• GPT4 Audio for Coaching
• Dark Retreats for personal development

And turn it into:

"Guided Audio integration coaching for Dark Retreat Participants."

This totally started blowing my mind!?

What I realized I had found was not only a way to generate infinite ideas, but also ideas that are interesting to me, AND that would make up a Niche of 1.

I don't think anyone is currently exploring or writing about this topic. And I have 10+ others just like it.

The secret is in combining very specific niche curiosities that you have together in novel ways.

Imagining Yourself as a Teacher of the Subject

Now I have a bunch of topics that are super interesting to me, but I still haven't mastered them, they're just interests for now.

I wanted to start imagining what I might need to learn, or what if I eventually became a teacher of this subject... what would I teach? What would the curriculum look like?

So I had GPT4 begin to write titles of Blog posts that I might write on the subject.

Here's one I got:

1. "Deepening Your Dark Retreat Experience: Exploring the Benefits of Guided Audio Integration Coaching"

Going even further, I wanted to build a curriculum that I might create on the subject, which also can function as a learning path for me to actually dive in and begin to learn.

Here's what it gave me:

Part 1: Introduction to Dark Retreats and Guided Audio Integration

• Understanding the concept and history of dark retreats
• The role of guided audio integration coaching in enhancing the dark retreat experience
• Establishing personal goals and intentions for the retreat

Part 2: Preparation for the Dark Retreat and Guided Audio Integration

• Building a suitable environment for a dark retreat
• Selecting and customizing guided audio integration materials

And so on...

My Future of Writing, Self-Study, Development

Personally, this type of thinking has set off all types of interesting rabbit-holes for me to follow.

The boredom around topics that typically are written about has vanished.

As I plan out my personal study and writing schedule, I'm no longer just looking at the same old topics.

It feels like there is limitless opportunity in fresh areas that have yet to be explored.

In the future, I'll be working with GPT4 to create...

• Learning curriculums for subjects I want to learn
• Guidance on packaging these into potential products or courses to teach
• Competitive analysis on the current field of research on the given subject.

The fusion of passion, flow, and GPT4 has the potential to change not only our personal development journey, but also how we create and engage with content.

By discovering our current passions and combining them in unique ways, we can carve out niches that are both personally fulfilling and marketable.

So why not take the plunge?

Spend just 20 minutes with GPT4 to explore your passions and find your own untapped niches with this process, and let me know what you find.

As always, let me know how I can help,

xx David

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About David

David Sherry is an entrepreneur and founder of Death to Stock. After finding success and seeing how overwhelming, stressful, and full of self-doubt and anxiety that can make a person, he felt an overwhelming desire to have others navigate that period with less physical and emotional turmoil.

David pivoted to helping others uncover their business’s potential and value through in-depth business consulting and coaching. He now helps profitable solopreneurs and early-stage startups through targeted 1-on-1 sessions, and. helps them answer the question “what’s next” after they’ve been successful.

Outside of his coaching and consulting practice, David is keen to help others through a variety of mediums. An avid writer, he has a successful weekly newsletter, produces a podcast influenced by his experiences and writings, and also creates a variety of informational videos to help people along their journey.

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