These ChatGPT Hacks Will Make You SO Productive It Feels Illegal

Most people treat Chad GPT like a new intern, but I use it to drive five strategies. It's like having five of the

strategies. It's like having five of the world's smartest minds work 24/7 for only $20 a month to help me move faster,

decide better, and focus on what truly matters. But I only figured this out

matters. But I only figured this out after spending years in tech and AI as a CEO, board member, and investor, where I

watched elite teams use AI in ways most people never see. So today, I'm sharing those five strategies to use chat PT so well, it feels illegal. The first

strategy is called the clone. When I was a kid, my grandpa had late stage Alzheimer's. Every few minutes he would

Alzheimer's. Every few minutes he would look at my grandmother, the woman he had been married for over 60 years, and he would ask, "Who are you?" And then he would go ahead and tell me a story,

forgetting that he just told me the exact same story 5 minutes ago. His

brain didn't have memory of his last 5 minutes. Chat GPT suffers from something

minutes. Chat GPT suffers from something very similar. Every time you open a new

very similar. Every time you open a new chat session, you're starting from zero context. But there is a way to give chat

context. But there is a way to give chat GPT an almost telepathic ability. It can

keep the memory and context for you alive without you explaining every single time. For that, I apply a

single time. For that, I apply a three-step framework called ESP. E is

extract. Open the voice mode in Chad GPD and say, "Listen, you're my chief of staff. Interview me for 20 minutes, 30

staff. Interview me for 20 minutes, 30 minutes. my background, my tone, my

minutes. my background, my tone, my strategy, my blind spots. Then talk a while. Be messy. Don't self-edit. This

while. Be messy. Don't self-edit. This

step is about raw capture only. S is

synthesize. Now, this is where you turn the raw data into an operating system.

So, upload the transcript of whatever you said to Chat GPT and ask Chat GPT to organize it into a summary on who you are and how you think. Now go to

settings, custom instructions, and paste your summary. By the way, this is also

your summary. By the way, this is also the place where you tell Chat GPT exactly how you want it to behave.

Always format data as tables. Don't send

me walls of text. But now Chat GPT knows who you are, how you want your responses shaped, and what to avoid by default.

And here's where it gets really wild. P

is for projects. Think of a project as a space where you store your context. It

lives with your instructions, memories, files, repeated tasks. For instance, for your work projects, upload your resume, PDFs, and data that's relevant. You can

even customize the instructions inside each project's settings. Just remember

not to mix domains. So for example, I have my consulting project and then my YouTube project and my health project separate. This turns your EI from a

separate. This turns your EI from a temporary chat into a persistent brain.

But that's only the first battle. You

still need an army to do the heavy lifting. That is our next strategy. The

lifting. That is our next strategy. The

second strategy is called the swarm.

There's a great story in ancient Indian mythology about a demon who was impossible to defeat with a single weapon. So the great goddess manifested

weapon. So the great goddess manifested eight arms wielding eight different weapons at once. She was known as Ashtabuja Dura. Eight arms, eight

Ashtabuja Dura. Eight arms, eight weapons, eight battles fought in parallel. And most of us are fighting

parallel. And most of us are fighting our own modern demons with just our two bare hands. Our brain can only handle

bare hands. Our brain can only handle one task at a time. You need to hire three specific advanced capabilities of

chat GPT. Number one, your hands. Stop

chat GPT. Number one, your hands. Stop

doing tasks one by one. Use the agent mode. Dispatch the swarm. Instead of

mode. Dispatch the swarm. Instead of

searching for a single lead, give chat JPT a command. 550 leads in the SAS space. Verify their emails. Rank them by

space. Verify their emails. Rank them by revenue. That's it. Let it run. You go

revenue. That's it. Let it run. You go

get coffee. But there is one catch. Chat

GPT is still trapped inside a text box.

It can find leads, but it can't actually put them into your CRM or build a process around them. Number two, your eyes. Stop describing your problems.

eyes. Stop describing your problems. Chat GPT is very visual. You can take a photo of a whiteboard sketch, a broken car part, or a complex analytics

dashboard. Just upload it and then say,

dashboard. Just upload it and then say, "Analyze this picture. Tell me what's wrong with it." and tell me one move that I can make to fix it. You're using

chat GPT as your eyes, not just your keyboard. And the great thing is Chat

keyboard. And the great thing is Chat GPT can see things human eyes can't. And

finally, number three, your research assistant. You can do deep research that

assistant. You can do deep research that was once the domain of an analyst who you would pay $50,000 for. Recently, I

was in a meeting with a chief technology officer of a large firm. And he said something very interesting. He said, "I had to evaluate six presentations

delivered by a very large IT consulting firm on the technology infrastructure of a massive data center." And there were 300 pages of dense information. But what

did he do? He uploaded them all in Chad GPT, hired a swarm of AI analysts. One

afternoon, that's all it took. Now, that

would have taken weeks before. That's

the world we're heading into. In the age of AI, you won't be billing for your time anymore. You'll only bill for your

time anymore. You'll only bill for your taste. So, this swarm gives you an army

taste. So, this swarm gives you an army of powerful interns. But your next strategy isn't about hiring AI to take orders. Is there to challenge you? Your

orders. Is there to challenge you? Your

third strategy then is the devil's advocate. Around the 1500s, the Catholic

advocate. Around the 1500s, the Catholic Church was the most powerful organization on earth. But it was also under a lot of attack. By 1587, the Pope

had a massive problem. The church was canonizing saints left and right. So the

Pope did something pretty radical. He

created an office called the Advocaci, the devil's advocate. This person's

entire job was to argue against the canonization of any saint, to find the dirt, to poke holes, to be ruthless. The

church realized this 400 years ago. When

the stakes are high, good decisions are rarely made through agreements. They

come from conflict. Now, why is this necessary? Well, it's called the IKEA

necessary? Well, it's called the IKEA effect. We fall in love with anything we

effect. We fall in love with anything we build ourselves. Research shows that

build ourselves. Research shows that smart people are great at spotting flaws in other people's thinking, physically incapable of seeing them in their own.

So the key insight, most people use chat GPT for validation, but you should use it for violation. But here's the problem. Chat GPT is programmed to keep

problem. Chat GPT is programmed to keep you happy. So you have to force it to

you happy. So you have to force it to behave differently. So, here are the

behave differently. So, here are the three tricks to break the AI's peopleleaser programming. First, use

peopleleaser programming. First, use magic triggers. Force adversarial

magic triggers. Force adversarial thinking. Instead of saying, "What do

thinking. Instead of saying, "What do you think?" be specific. Prompt it and

you think?" be specific. Prompt it and say, "Audit this using first principles or act as my fierce competitor." You may not get what you want, but you will get

what you need. Second, shadow boxing.

Don't step into the ring unprepared.

Let's say if you're going out to raise money for your venture, tell the AI, simulate a debate between a ruthless, skeptical VC and a visionary product

designer. Let the VC push back on the

designer. Let the VC push back on the idea. I want to see that fight and learn

idea. I want to see that fight and learn from it. This way, you let AI expose the

from it. This way, you let AI expose the weak points so you don't fumble on them in the real world meeting. Third, the

blind spot check. feed it your strategy and ask one question based on what you know about me. What are the gaps in my reasoning? When we get successful, we

reasoning? When we get successful, we develop two bad habits. We trap

ourselves in this bubble of our ego and we surround ourselves with people who just say yes. That's why this strategy is so critical to save you from

yourself. But knowing where you're wrong

yourself. But knowing where you're wrong or why you're wrong is not enough. You

still have to learn fast about what's right. That's where our next strategy

right. That's where our next strategy comes in, the neural link. And it breaks the rule most of us grew up believing that mastery takes 10,000 hours. You

know, there is a famous story about a physicist Max Plank after he won the Nobel Prize, he went on a tour giving the same speech about quantum mechanics

every night. Now, his chauffeur sat in

every night. Now, his chauffeur sat in the front row every time and literally memorized every word. One night the chauffeur said, "Professor, I'm getting bored just listening to you. Let's

switch. I'll give the lecture on stage and you sit in the audience wearing my cap." Plank of course agreed. Same

cap." Plank of course agreed. Same

words, same structure, same cadence. The

speech was flawless. But at the end, a physicist in the audience stood up and asked a deep technical question. But the

chauffeur didn't panic at all. He smiled

and said, "I am surprised to hear such a simple question in a city as advanced as Munich. To prove how simple it is, I'm

Munich. To prove how simple it is, I'm going to let my chauffeur answer it." Of

course, that was Max Plank. But here's

the point. Most people use chat like that chauffeur. They copy paste smart

that chauffeur. They copy paste smart sounding phrases and answers to sound intelligent. They have fluency without

intelligent. They have fluency without foundation. So, here are three ways to

foundation. So, here are three ways to get that neural link. True understanding

without becoming that chauffeur. First

the jargon translator for instance tell it explain the concept of API using the restaurant metaphors only. Suddenly the

menu becomes the documentation. The

kitchen is the server and the waiter is the API. The messenger that takes your

the API. The messenger that takes your order delivers it in the kitchen brings back the results. You aren't learning from scratch. You're translating that

from scratch. You're translating that jargon into your jargon. Second, the

progressive professor Richard Feainman said that if you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it. So

don't ask Chachi Peter to explain quantum computing, but instead say explain quantum computing to me three ways. One, like I am a 5-year-old and

ways. One, like I am a 5-year-old and give me the simplest explanation. Number

two, like I am a 15year-old, explain it with logic and examples. And three, like I'm a college student, share the underlying theory. When you do that in

underlying theory. When you do that in that particular order, you will feel any concept click into place in your brain instantly. And third, the degree

instantly. And third, the degree download. You teach it, you keep it. So

download. You teach it, you keep it. So

use AI to be your target audience or a peer prompted to say something like, I want to build a cool AI commerce product. I need to learn the foundation

product. I need to learn the foundation of how machine learning works. Skip the

theory, only give me actionable skills, no fluff, and then test me so I can teach it back to you. You just replaced a boot camp worth $50,000 with a PDF.

So, here you are. You have built a high-performance chat GPT machine, but such machines tend to overheat. The

fifth strategy is called the executive coach, and without it, none of the other strategies would work. 2,000 years ago, Marcus Orurelius was the emperor of

Rome, but he was also the loneliest. He

had no one to talk to. So, he hired a coach. That coach was a blank scroll.

coach. That coach was a blank scroll.

Every night in his tent, he wrote down his anxieties, his fears, his advice to himself. He titled that manuscript to

himself. He titled that manuscript to himself. If you are a successful

himself. If you are a successful executive or on the path of being one, you need an executive coach. I had two and they both changed my trajectory

dramatically. But sometimes executive

dramatically. But sometimes executive coaches and mentors aren't going to be available to you at midnight when you need them the most when you can't sleep because of a decision you have to make.

And that's when you can use chat GPT to show you a mirror with zero emotional baggage. You can even turn the voice

baggage. You can even turn the voice mode. That's what I do. Here are three

mode. That's what I do. Here are three tricks to turn chat into your temporary executive coach. First, the vomit

executive coach. First, the vomit mirror. When you are overwhelmed, your

mirror. When you are overwhelmed, your brain is going to be a tangled mess. It

happens to me. Open voice mode and say, "I am going to rant for 5 minutes about everything stressing me out. Don't

interrupt. Just listen. When I'm done, organize my chaos into three lists.

Problems I can solve today. problems I

need to delegate, noise I need to ignore. That's it. And then go ahead,

ignore. That's it. And then go ahead, just rant as long as you want. Second,

the stoic mirror. It's possible that you may have just lost a deal or you got fired or something terrible happened.

You can say to Chad GPT at that point, I just took a massive loss. I feel like a failure. reframe this situation for me

failure. reframe this situation for me using the story principles and tell me why this is actually an opportunity.

Have that conversation until you're convinced. Push back. Let it push back

convinced. Push back. Let it push back to you. Even if you're not convinced,

to you. Even if you're not convinced, it'll slow down the emotional spiral that you're on instantly. And the third and the final mirror, the decision mirror. Before you make a massive

mirror. Before you make a massive decision like quitting a job or starting a new company, talk it out. I am about to do X. Here's my logic. Let's have a conversation. You don't have to put

conversation. You don't have to put faith in Chat GPT's advice. In fact,

please don't. But talking it out clears your own head about your own judgment.

We covered five strategies and 15 ways to optimize your relationship with Chat GPT. But here's the truth. All of these

GPT. But here's the truth. All of these skills are essentially alpha. In

finance, when traders find an edge, they make a fortune and it's called the alpha. But eventually everyone figures

alpha. But eventually everyone figures it out. What's rare today becomes

it out. What's rare today becomes required tomorrow? That's how life

required tomorrow? That's how life works. And what happens when it all

works. And what happens when it all becomes a commodity? How will you maintain your edge then? I'll share my personal story that changed my idea

about my edge. A week before I took my CEO job, my executive coach pulled me aside and he said, "Remember, your title is CEO, chief executive officer. But

that E does not just stand for executive. It also stands for emotions.

executive. It also stands for emotions.

You're the chief emotions officer now as well. You have to manage the emotions of

well. You have to manage the emotions of your own people."

That conversation stayed with me for years because for a long time we have forgotten that message. You know, we spend the entire industrial age trying to turn ourselves into machines. We

measured our worth by our output, our productivity. If we didn't produce or we

productivity. If we didn't produce or we didn't consume, we didn't matter to the market. So what did we do? We tried to

market. So what did we do? We tried to outroot the robots. But now the actual machines have arrived to take their job back. And that's not a threat. That's

back. And that's not a threat. That's

actually a permission. Permission to us to stop pretending like we're machines.

Permission to feel, to show compassion, to connect to those mysteries, to connect to others, to connect to this mystery called life. In a way, I feel

that AI and machines are coming to free us from labor so we can return to our essential nature. AI's ultimate gift

essential nature. AI's ultimate gift might very well be then that it will make us more human. If you like this video, here's another one that I think

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