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title: Motivational interviewing
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  **Motivational interviewing** is a conversational approach in which the other
  party (here, an AI model like ChatGPT) asks questions and draws out your own
  reasoning instead of supplying answers — a way of using AI as a partner for
  self-understanding rather than as an oracle. As captured in this channel's
  material, David Perell uses this style of prompting with ChatGPT to clarify
  his own thinking, strategy, and voice.
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# Motivational interviewing

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Parent: [Channel index](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/llms.txt)

## Definition

**Motivational interviewing** is a conversational approach in which the other party (here, an AI model like ChatGPT) asks questions and draws out your own reasoning instead of supplying answers — a way of using AI as a partner for self-understanding rather than as an oracle. As captured in this channel's material, David Perell uses this style of prompting with ChatGPT to clarify his own thinking, strategy, and voice.

In this channel's material, **motivational interviewing** shows up in the episode with writer David Perell, where he treats ChatGPT not as an answer machine but as a conversation partner for **self-understanding** — asking the model to probe his own thinking, strategy, and taste rather than to hand him finished conclusions [^20e5d45c-a424-56e0-8755-8f16f6f368f4].