How I built a Flow Coach using Ai
Written on: 26th May 2025
Okay, this week was a weird one. Not bad, just... unproductive.
I wasn’t exactly slacking off, but I wasn’t operating in flow either. I knew I could’ve done more. And to fix I tried something different.
I built a Flow Coach using ChatGPT.
Life Update
This week just flew by.
The personal brand is doing great, getting more frequent and predictable results, grown to a collective of ~ 8k audience in a span of 1.5 years.
Got myself a whoop band(will share about it after a month of using it)
Bought myself a really nice suit, and now I am thinking to buy more of those. Like you know build a collection.
Was derailed badly with average screen time of 3.5hrs daily, but now got my work around it to keep it below 2. And that is exactly what today’s theme will be.
Had a 2hr long conversation with a friend, had been ages since we talked and it felt amazing. After the conversation I was like damn I felt good. And that’s when you know you have right company.
Currently reading Visualise by Maya Raichoora (more about it below)
This week, I also had a 1:1 call with someone who was confused between doing his Master’s in Ireland or Australia. But halfway through the conversation, it became clear the whole “study abroad” dream wasn’t even his.
He actually wanted to stay in India, be with his parents, take care of them, and build something locally. And honestly? He was super confident about it. I told him don’t go just because someone else wants you to.
Because if things get tough abroad (and they will), you’ll end up blaming your parents for pushing you into it.
And they’ll feel equally guilty. But when you do what you truly believe in, even the hard parts feel worth it. You own it fully. And that’s where real clarity kicks in.
AI Use case 1
How to build a flow bot using ChatGPT
I was going through Dan Koe’s resources and stumbled upon this idea where you upload a book or PDF to ChatGPT and ask it to act as your personal coach.
Not a general productivity bot but something based on a specific framework or book. So, I followed with the same book as in the course.
I also tried something with Feel good productivity too - by Ali Abdaal).
Here’s the step by step guide:
Download the book you want and upload the pdf to ChatGPT.
Use the following prompt to break down core principles from that book. This is my template which you can use to build any coach - study, relationship, fitness anything.
“Understand and summarise this book [book name] and break down exactly what I need to know to:
Accomplish a certain output which I was expecting to anyways after reading the book
Manage the issue I am facing right now
Psychological concepts and insights and examples to solve those problems
Then ask it to teach you what you want to learn from the book (attaching a reason rather than just summarising the book)”
eg: You understand and summarise Feel good productivity, and breakdown the book so that I know exactly:
How can I be more productive
Manage my time better and more intentionally
Use psychological concepts and insights and examples to solve those problems from the book.
Once you have the summary then as mentioned in the course use it to build a prompt out it and then use that prompt to build a bot out of it.
I am trying more things using ai these days will be sharing all here in the upcoming issues of Clarity.
AI Use case 2
Recently edited an entire podcast using Riverside FM tool within 30min.
Like everything was done by ai right from removing filler words, sentences that were not making much sense or adding any value in the conversation, changing camera focus depending on who was speaking, audio levels matching, infact even pulling out short clips for reels.
This is madness how ai is growing it literally did all this in 30min. For which an editor or human would have taken hours to do so.
But still I had to ask my team to do a quality check so it’s not fully automated yet. We will still need human involvement but the bare minimum can easily be replaced by Ai and that can be alarming for most of us.
Again also creativity being something that ai cannot pull off. Like it edited the whole conversation two HUMANS with real experience were required to have this conversation.
Here’s how I used it today
Quick Thought from the Book I’m Reading
(Visualise - Maya Raichoora)
Another book I’m reading this week is called Visualize and it dropped this one sentence that made me pause:
“We can’t grow new neurons, but we can build new pathways.”
It talks about how small tweaks like brushing your teeth with your non-dominant hand or learning a new language can reshape the pathways in our brain.
Because the more we drive down a mental road, the more it becomes a motorway.
Maya explains this using a brilliant analogy and I think this is the best one I have ever found about visualisation and our brain.
So Imagine our, Thoughts = Cars, Beliefs = Roads, Experiences = Buildings around those roads and Emotions = Weather.
Sometimes you’re driving on country roads, and the weather sucks. Other times you’re cruising a motorway under clear skies. But every drive every thought leaves an imprint.
The more you repeat a thought, the more permanent that road becomes. And just like roads, beliefs and habits can be redesigned.
And even in real life the more you walk down a path the more you become familiar with it. So if you visualise more the more it’ll be a firm belief and you will end up achieving your goal.
Because according to Maya our brain yet is not great with drawing a line between real experiences and/or imaginary experiences. Even the imagination sometimes is thought as if it’s happening in real.
So here’s what I’m thinking: What if we started visualizing and building intentional mental roads? Ones that lead somewhere meaningful?
What if journaling wasn’t just reflection, but construction?
What if every time we visualized something clearly, we laid a new road?
I’ll keep sharing thoughts from the book as I go, but this metaphor? It’s going to stay with me for a while.
So yeah, not the most “productive” week on paper. But mentally? I built better roads. And sometimes that’s the real work.
Let me know if you try the Flow Coach idea or if any of this stuck with you.
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See you next Week!