Vanessa Van Edwards uses AI as a brainstorming partner and research tool, feeding it viral videos to find connections for her book chapters. She won't let it write, only analyze and suggest ideas, like linking small talk to treasure hunts.
Are you using AI as a tool? If so, in what capacity?
A bit. As a brainstorming partner. For example, I might have a video that was very additive, went really viral. It's not quite a chapter, so I will talk to AI and I'll say, here's this video, it went viral, please analyze it. Could tie to this concept of the book. Like, one of the concepts of the book is treat small talk like a treasure hunt. I think that that's close to like, always say nice to see you, not nice to meet you. Like, you're trying to find the good in somebody you already knew them. I was like, how can we make this more of a chapter with the content I already have? And it will go through my manuscript and pull and say, I think that maybe we could tie these together. So in that way, it's a really nice brainstorming partner. It's good at analyzing things, mostly helped me with my research, and that was not really writing at all, but the research side, it just does a lot of the heavy lifting.
