“This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.”

Scope guardrail:

This course does not promise perfect rationality or a magically fair world.

It gives you enough structure, language, and rituals to stop being an unconscious victim of illusions — and start playing life’s games with eyes more open, in alignment with how the world actually behaves.

We like to believe we “see things as they are.”
In reality, we walk through life with foggy glasses and wrong maps in our heads.

We don’t see the world directly.
We see stories our brain constructs — and then we make serious decisions about work, money, relationships, and risk based on those stories.

This course, Debugging Perception Illusions with ChatGPT, is about fixing that.

What this course is really about

Inside this course, we treat the mind like software:

• Perception bugs = recurring illusions about how things work

• Maps = our inner models of effort, fairness, risk, other people, and ourselves

• ChatGPT = a powerful debugger we can use to question, test, and patch those maps

We explore a set of “killer” perception illusions—deep, systemic misunderstandings such as:

• “If I work hard, things will work out.”

• “If it feels true, it is true for me.”

• “People are paying a lot of attention to me.”

• “The world mostly runs on fairness and merit.”

• “Once I find the right answer, I’m done.”

Each illusion quietly shapes hundreds of decisions over time.
The course shows how these illusions form, how they are reinforced by society, and how they show up in real life: promotions missed, conflicts repeated, risks avoided, opportunities wasted.

How ChatGPT fits in

This isn’t a generic “AI productivity” course.

We use ChatGPT as a perception mirror:

• to reflect your stories back to you more clearly,

• to propose alternative interpretations of events,

• to challenge hidden assumptions,

• to simulate other perspectives,

• and to help you redesign your responses and strategies.

You’ll see practical examples of prompts that turn ChatGPT into:

• a cognitive debugger for your thinking,

• a map checker when you’re about to make a decision,

• and an idea partner for designing better moves in your career and life.

What’s inside the journey

The course is structured as a mental operating system that builds layer by layer:

• We start with how perception really works in the brain (why we experience a story, not raw reality).

• We introduce the idea of perception illusions as wrong-but-feels-right maps.

• We walk through 10 high-impact illusions, each with:

  • clear explanation,

  • real-world examples,

  • reflection exercises,

  • and optional ChatGPT prompt patterns to explore and patch it.

• We then look at how top thinkers and organizations reduce illusion damage using habits, processes, and feedback loops.

• Finally, we assemble your own Perception OS — a simple, repeatable way to check for illusions before they drive your next big decision.

Why now

We live in a world of:

• endless content and advice,

• algorithmic feeds controlling what we see,

• AI-generated text that can sound confident and convincing even when it’s wrong,

• social media that amplifies comparison and status anxiety.

In this environment, illusions are not just personal.
They are amplified by systems.

Having a way to debug perception, and a practical way to use ChatGPT as a thinking partner, is becoming a core life skill.

If you want to go beyond tips and hacks, and build a deeper, AI-augmented way of seeing and deciding, this course is designed for that purpose.

Who this course is for:

• Knowledge workers, creators, and leaders who feel “smart but stuck” and want to make better decisions.
• People who overthink, overlearn, or overwork and suspect their perception, not their effort, is the real bottleneck.
• Anyone using ChatGPT who wants it as a thinking partner to debug their own illusions, not just generate content.