Anything.
How I master 80% of (virtually) anything. Using AI.
I went from 0 to (nearly) 700,000 followers in 3 years.
I learned, failed, and (ended up) mastering so many different skills:
✦ Sales: multiple million in $ annual recurring revenue.
✦ Marketing: 300+ million impressions across socials every year.
✦ Human resources: hiring full-time employees (2) and contractors (10+).
✦ And many more: legal, accounting, finance, diet, working out…
Most of the fast-track learnings come from a simple method:
☑ 1 - Find the best person for it.
☑ 2 - Consume 80% of his/her knowledge.
☑ 3 - Extract the 20% that matters most.
But with today’s tool, I realize AI can do it (much) better than I do.
☑ 1 - Find the best person for it. Get the best content on a topic (using AI).
☑ 2 - Consume 80% of his/her knowledge. Feed it to another AI behaving as your advisor.
☑ 3 - Extract the 20% that matters most. Build up on it, infinitely.
Here’s exactly how:
Table of contents
✦ Find the gem through the noise.
✦ How I feed the gems to (this one) AI.
✦ Let’s build your next teacher together.
✦ How to (literally) talk to a super-intelligent AI.
✦ Hot take: the future of learning with AI, but today.
1. How to find the gem through the noise.
Humans publish 6 to 8 billion posts every single day on the internet.
So how could you know whom to feel inspired by?
The wrong way…
✖ Pick the creator with the most views.
✖ Select the post with the most promising goal.
✖ Ask AI to find it for you (it will pick the most well-known).
The right way…
Scrolling more (mindfully).
Your algorithm - would it be Linkedin, YouTube, X - is as good as your scrolling sessions. The first step of joining my team is to 1) create a fresh social account 2) type “AI” 3) like and save as many good (= useful) posts as possible.
Hide the rest.
Tada! You have a nearly perfect algorithm in about a week.
Now that you have found useful gems online, what should you do with them?
Let’s dive in:
2. How I feed it to AI.
This part is filled with best practices on how to search with AI. I made a Google doc explaining how I best search with AI, here it is again as a reminder: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pWuMCBVQo1zKcgKltX_BZxAr31KgxmOlp3Vzvmc5Hxc/edit?usp=sharing
You find either (1) a good creator or (2) a good source of information.
What’s next?
I tried two methods to feed it to an AI. Both options are free:
✦ Feed it to a Project inside ChatGPT.
✦ Feed it to NotebookLM from Google.
NotebookLM is made for this case study, so I chose it.
What’s an AI you wish to master? Comment it, and I will write a guide on it.
PS: Only paid members can comment.
Here is an example of one of my NotebookLM around Power.
Robert Greene is my favorite author on the matter. I bought all of his books, and simply found the PDF version of them to give it to the AI (on the left).
ChatGPT (or any other AI) tries to be the same AI for everyone.
It’s nonsense. You must get a specific approach for your problem.
Here’s an example with my Power NotebookLM:
I asked: “I am a content creator on Linkedin sharing how-to guides on AI. Give me the best strategy to approach and get a partnership with Google DeepMind.”
When you ask ChatGPT, the answer feels flat. Surface level.
Like it’s ok, but it will never go as deep as this blurp from my Power NotebookLM: “Focus on unfulfilled needs”.
And you can build up on it.
The depth of the answer is simply unmatched.
Let’s be tactical now:
This process is infinite. I can pick up on any part of it, and ask (1) how to do it (2) what’s next once it’s done.
I just showed you how I fed it into my NotebookLM.
Now let’s build one together:
3. The exact steps to make one.
Let’s create your next mentor, together.
1 - Go to NotebookLM.
2 - Click on “Create new notebook”.
3 - Add sources (PDF, YouTube, websites…).
4 - Eg. I want to create a notebook to sleep better. I love Andrew Huberman.
Andrew David Huberman is an American neuroscientist and podcaster. He is an associate professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He has been the host of the popular health and science-focused podcast Huberman Lab since 2021.So I will copy the links of all the YouTube videos from his channel that has the tag “sleep”. By the way, these videos are often over 3 hours.
Pro tip: Control + F “sleep” on his channel.
I have now added 8 perfect sources around sleep, by Andrew Huberman and his guests. Time to ask anything!
4. Say “Hi!” to your mentor.
This is the best part of NotebookLM, by far the craziest.You can generate a podcast of your mentors… and talk to them.
Watch me being blown away by it, live (paid-member only):