My Ageless Best

Why I Said No Thanks

When I first heard about Muse, Meta’s new AI agent, my reaction was pretty much, no thanks.

Facebook already seems to know a little too much about me. You know how you look at something online and suddenly there’s an ad for it in your Facebook feed? I wasn’t particularly interested in giving Meta even more information it could use to lead me down more rabbit holes.

But I figured I should at least find out what Muse was all about and how it was different from the AI I was already using. So I watched a few videos. One showed a mother whose Muse-created newsletter arrived each morning for her family to read at the breakfast table. I also listened to Mark Zuckerberg talk about using Muse with his children.

I thought that would have been fabulous at another stage of my life, but it wasn’t exactly my life now.

I’ve been working for some time on four areas of my life that I want to move forward. Sometimes when you’re trying to create a new habit, the steps forward aren’t all that clear. One of mine wasn’t developing the way I hoped.

What Changed My Mind

That’s when the light bulb went off.

What if I gave that one to Muse?

I gave Muse the goal and asked it to help me figure out how to work on it.

What evolved was my own version of that morning newsletter—a daily action list. Muse gives me things to read, YouTube videos to watch, questions to think about and assignments to do.

As I used it, I kept thinking of ways to make it work better for me. At first Muse was simply giving me resources, and I found myself going back and forth trying to remember what I had already read or watched.

My Daily Practice with Muse

So I asked Muse to turn them into a checklist.

Now I can check things off as I complete them and see my progress. It sort of gamified the whole thing. It feels less like work when I watch those check marks add up. Muse has also become a little like an accountability partner.

But the daily list isn’t just a list of things to get done. Each reading, video, question or assignment gives me a little more insight into the goal I’m trying to develop.

And because Muse keeps putting it in front of me every day, it’s pulling something I’ve chosen to work on into my orbit.

I almost passed on Muse simply because it came from Meta. But I took a second look, and found it very useful.