PQS 23 (F) - prompt from www.reddit.com

The prompt

not "act as an expert." everyone does that. stopped working the moment everyone started using it.

this instead:

*"you've seen a thousand people fail at this exact problem. tell me where they fail before you help me."*

what came back wasn't the generic answer. it was the failure map. where people go wrong that nobody admits. worth more than any solution it could give directly.

**the vantage points that actually work:**

*"you've reviewed a thousand versions of this. what separates the top one percent."* stops giving average advice. starts giving edge.

*"you've watched people spend months on this and get nowhere. what were they doing wrong that they couldn't see."* the blind spot answer. the thing you're probably doing right now.

*"you built this from scratch and it failed. what did you miss."* post mortem energy without the actual failure.

*"you tried the obvious solution. it didn't work. what did you try next."* skips the first layer. goes straight to the interesting part.

the difference between role prompting and vantage point:

"act as an expert" gives credentials. a vantage point gives a relationship to the problem. an expert knows the answer. someone who watched a thousand people fail knows where the answer breaks in practice.

completely different kind of useful.

what question have you been asking the same way for months that a different vantage point would break open?