Curiosity beats prompt engineering
The most valuable AI skill isn't writing clever prompts. It's staying curious for one more question.
The lesson
Two people use the same tool. One has a folder of prompt templates. The other keeps asking: why? What if? Show me another way. The curious one wins, every time, because AI's real gift is cheap exploration: every road you'd never bother to walk is suddenly ten seconds away. Formulas end conversations. Curiosity keeps them going.
Try it — 60 seconds
After my next question, don't stop at the answer. Suggest three follow-up questions I probably wouldn't think to ask — and make one of them surprising.
Copy it into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini — whichever you already use. Fill in the brackets with your real life.
Watch out
Templates aren't bad — they're just ceilings. Use one to start, never to stop.