In this lesson, Steve introduces the flipped interaction pattern—a powerful prompting technique where you let the AI ask you questions instead of the other way around. This is especially useful when you’re unsure how to begin, need to brainstorm, want to reflect deeply, or are preparing for things like job interviews, exams, or big decisions. Steve walks through how to structure flipped prompts, including how to set the goal, context, and flow. You’ll see a hands-on example of using ChatGPT as a mock interviewer for an entry-level accounting job, and learn how this technique can be used for personal growth, project planning, hiring, or exploring life choices. Flip the script—and uncover new insights through guided questioning.

In this lesson, Steve introduces the powerful Cognitive Verifier Pattern—a technique that uses AI to generate and answer a series of sub-questions in order to arrive at a better, more accurate solution. You’ll see a real-world example focused on selecting the best social media advertising platform for an online course business. Instead of getting a generic answer, Steve shows how breaking the prompt into smaller questions leads to a highly relevant recommendation (YouTube, in this case). You’ll learn how to structure your own prompts to guide ChatGPT through multi-step reasoning, resulting in deeper insights and more tailored responses. This technique is especially useful for decision-making, strategy development, and personalized planning.

In this lesson, Steve walks you through the Question Refinement Pattern, a practical two-step technique to help you ask clearer, more effective questions using ChatGPT. By prompting the model to refine your original question into a sharper, more actionable version, you can dramatically improve the quality of the answers you receive. Whether you're making business decisions (like hiring an assistant) or investment choices (such as evaluating Tesla stock), refining your questions helps uncover deeper insights tailored to your goals and risk tolerance. You’ll learn how to implement this pattern using a simple setup phrase, see real examples in action, and understand how this method enhances both the relevance and accuracy of AI responses.

In this lesson, Steve introduces one of the most commonly used—and often unconscious—prompting templates: the Task–Action–Object (TAO) pattern. This practical structure helps you create clearer and more effective prompts by breaking them into three parts: the task (what you want to do), the action (how you want it done), and the object (what it should be done to). Steve walks through a hands-on example of summarizing a lengthy article using this template, showing how the TAO format turns even dense or boring content into quick, scannable insights. Once you understand TAO, you'll recognize how versatile and useful it is in both your personal and professional use of AI tools like ChatGPT.

In this lesson, Steve explores the Attribute–Object–Action (AOA) prompting framework—a powerful method for generating insightful, structured responses from ChatGPT. This technique helps you describe or evaluate something (like a product, experience, or idea) by breaking it down into its key attributes, the object being examined, and the actions or outcomes associated with each attribute. You’ll see this in action through real-world examples, from assessing project management software to describing the perfect romantic restaurant. Steve demonstrates how AOA can improve prompt clarity, surface richer detail, and guide more strategic decision-making in both business and personal contexts.

In this lesson, Steve introduces the DAO (Description–Attribute–Object) prompting framework—an effective tool for getting ChatGPT to describe key qualities of any subject. You’ll learn how to structure prompts that clearly define what you want described (the description), the object of focus (like a website), and the specific attributes you're interested in (such as visual appeal or user experience). Through practical examples—like designing a website for children's journals—Steve shows how this framework can guide AI responses with greater precision and help you explore deeper details such as design choices, colors, or usability. Perfect for anyone working on product, marketing, or user experience ideas.

In this quick and practical lesson, Steve walks you through two of the most common and easy-to-use prompt structures: the Question-Answer template and the List Item template. You’ll learn how to frame effective questions to get focused, useful responses from ChatGPT—and how to generate well-organized lists with added detail. Whether you’re looking for quick explanations or feature-benefit breakdowns (like when evaluating software or brainstorming ideas), these templates help you get clear, structured output fast. Ideal for beginners and experienced users alike, these tools will instantly improve how you interact with AI.

In this lesson, you'll explore how to use the Design Template Pattern to unleash creativity and generate detailed design concepts, ideas, and strategic plans using ChatGPT. Steve demonstrates how starting with a broad or highly specific prompt can lead to useful outputs for things like webpage designs, logos, branding elements, or even brainstorming business strategies. By structuring your input with clear creative direction—or letting the AI improvise—you can receive inspiration, refine your concepts, and accelerate your design thinking. Whether you're building a website, developing marketing assets, or launching a product, this pattern is a powerful tool for rapid ideation and smart planning.

This lesson explores how to use the Writing Template Pattern to generate written content quickly and effectively with AI. Whether you're crafting blog posts, reports, articles, emails, or entire books, ChatGPT can serve as your co-writer—helping with ideation, structure, tone, and even SEO. Steve walks through examples like writing a blog post about leadership, creating report outlines, generating titles and keywords, and refining sections based on specific goals or audiences. You'll see how to use AI for drafting, revising, and expanding your content while maintaining ethical authorship and personal voice. This pattern is especially helpful for saving time and overcoming writer’s block.

In this lesson, you'll explore two powerful ways to use ChatGPT for translation: traditional and creative. First, Steve demonstrates how to easily convert content from one language to another with just a simple prompt—perfect for translating emails, articles, or documents while preserving meaning and tone. Then, he takes it further with creative translation, where the original message is repurposed into new formats like blog posts, social media content, or video scripts. You'll see how to adapt a professional email into engaging Facebook, Twitter/X, Instagram posts, and even a YouTube video script—all while keeping the core message intact. Ideal for marketers, content creators, and communicators, this lesson shows how to make your content multilingual and multimedia-friendly.

In this engaging lesson, Steve shows you how to use ChatGPT to create compelling storylines—whether you're marketing a product, writing a children’s book, or simply adding narrative flair to your message. You'll see how AI can quickly generate draft story structures, characters, challenges, and resolutions to suit your personal or professional needs. From crafting a promotional video story for a personal finance app to imagining the adventures of a young beaver building his first den, this lesson highlights how to spark creativity, adapt narratives, and shape messages that connect with your audience. Perfect for marketers, writers, educators, and creators of all kinds.

Need help solving a problem, creating a process, or just figuring out what to do next? This lesson introduces the How-To Prompt, also known as the Step-by-Step Template—perfect for breaking down complex tasks into manageable steps. Whether you’re planning an office party or building a pitch deck for venture capitalists, this template guides the AI to deliver clear, ordered instructions to help you move forward with confidence. Steve shows you how to write simple but powerful prompts that generate practical, actionable sequences—so you never feel stuck again.

In this practical lesson, Steve demonstrates how to use ChatGPT to summarize long articles, white papers, and dense reports into clear, concise summaries. Whether you're trying to stay current in your industry, save time at work, or quickly grasp key points without reading pages of content, this technique will help. You’ll learn simple prompts like “Summarize this article” or “Give me the key points,” and see how AI can highlight essential takeaways and perspectives—making heavy reading lighter and more actionable. Ideal for professionals, researchers, and lifelong learners.

In this fun and inspiring lesson, you’ll learn how to tap into the creative power of ChatGPT to brainstorm ideas, generate fresh concepts, and explore imaginative solutions. Whether you're naming a new company, designing a logo, crafting taglines, or choosing brand colors, AI can act like your personal creative partner—offering suggestions, refining ideas, and sparking insights. Steve demonstrates how simple prompts like “Create,” “Brainstorm,” and “Give me more ideas” can lead to powerful results across business, branding, product design, and more. You'll leave this lesson with practical techniques to turn AI into your own virtual muse.

In this practical, hands-on lesson, you’ll discover how ChatGPT can support coding, debugging, and other technical tasks like working with Excel formulas or scripts. Steve shows you how to use simple prompts to generate functional code snippets, translate code between languages like JavaScript and Python, and even debug faulty code. You’ll also learn how to prompt ChatGPT effectively for specific programming challenges or workflow improvements. Whether you're a developer, data analyst, or someone who works with technical tools, this lesson will give you real-world examples of how AI can save you time, reduce frustration, and help you solve problems faster.

In this lesson, you'll explore the powerful Chain of Thought prompting technique, where a single question evolves into a full, dynamic interaction. Steve shows how to guide ChatGPT step by step—building ideas, refining outputs, and deepening the conversation to co-create complex deliverables like onboarding videos, blog content, or immersive descriptions. This method turns ChatGPT into a true thinking partner, helping you brainstorm, develop, and iterate in real time. Whether you're solving business problems, crafting creative stories, or producing professional content, this technique unlocks deeper results through purposeful dialogue.

In this insightful lesson, you’ll explore ReAct prompting—a powerful technique that helps ChatGPT break down complex tasks by explaining its reasoning and showing its actions step by step. Steve walks you through how to create prompts that reveal why the AI is generating specific responses and what it’s doing at each step, using examples like writing persuasive marketing copy for a kayak. You’ll learn how to use ReAct prompting to get clearer, more logical outputs, understand the AI’s decision-making process, and refine responses more effectively. This technique is especially useful for problem-solving, copywriting, and improving transparency in AI-generated content.

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to use Zero-Shot Prompting, a technique where ChatGPT generates a response without any prior examples or fine-tuning on your specific topic. Steve illustrates how this approach leverages the model’s general knowledge to respond creatively and helpfully—even when the prompt includes something entirely made up, like a pink panda. You’ll see how zero-shot prompting works in real-world use cases, like writing a Facebook ad for a zoo, and why it’s especially valuable when you're exploring new ideas, experimenting with unfamiliar subjects, or working with novel concepts.

In this creative and insightful lesson, you’ll explore Few-Shot Prompting—a powerful technique that helps you get more accurate and customized results from ChatGPT by providing a few examples or extra context. Steve walks you through the difference between zero-shot and few-shot prompting using a playful “pink panda” example, where the AI invents responses based on imaginative terms like fuggle and radda. You'll learn how even a small amount of added information can dramatically improve ChatGPT’s understanding and output. This lesson is especially useful when working with internal jargon, niche topics, or any situation where clarity and consistency are essential.

In this quick lesson, you’ll get a side-by-side breakdown of zero-shot and few-shot prompting, two essential techniques for working effectively with ChatGPT. Steve explains how zero-shot prompting relies solely on general AI knowledge—making it fast and flexible but sometimes unpredictable—while few-shot prompting provides targeted context or examples to guide responses with greater accuracy. You’ll learn when to use each method, how to shift from one to the other during a conversation, and how this subtle shift can dramatically improve results. Ideal for anyone who wants to level up their prompting skills with simple but powerful adjustments.

In this visually engaging lesson, you'll discover how to use multimodal prompting, a technique that allows you to combine different types of input—such as text and images—to get more context-rich, insightful responses from AI. Steve demonstrates how uploading an image of kayakers and pairing it with a simple text prompt can produce a vivid, emotionally resonant description. You'll learn how this method is especially helpful for generating marketing copy, writing product descriptions, or telling visual stories. This lesson is ideal for anyone who wants to make their prompts more powerful by tapping into AI's ability to understand and respond to multiple types of media.

In this fun and eye-opening lesson, you’ll learn how to use AI-powered text-to-image tools—like DALL·E, Bing Image Creator, Midjourney, and more—to generate high-quality visuals from simple text prompts. Steve demonstrates how to create everything from whimsical blue monsters to professional training images, simply by writing effective prompts. Whether you're aiming for 3D realism, digital art, or the brush strokes of Van Gogh, you'll see how tweaking your wording can drastically change the results. This lesson is perfect for content creators, marketers, educators, and anyone who wants to generate compelling visuals without being a designer or illustrator.

Email is one of the most common—and time-consuming—tasks in the workplace, making it the perfect starting point for using AI effectively. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to use AI tools like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, or Claude to dramatically improve the quality and speed of your emails.

We’ll explore how AI can help you write clearer messages, adjust tone for different audiences, personalize communication, and even summarize long email threads or extract key action items. You’ll also discover a simple six-part email prompt formula that helps you structure your prompts so you’re not starting from scratch each time.

In addition, this lesson introduces reusable templates for common email types—such as status updates, meeting follow-ups, reminders, announcements, and clarifications—so you can quickly generate high-quality drafts. Finally, you’ll learn how to refine and iterate on AI-generated emails and begin building your own prompt library to save even more time in the future.

By the end of this lesson, you’ll be able to use AI as your personal email assistant—helping you write faster, communicate more effectively, and stay consistent across all your professional communication.

Feeling overwhelmed with tasks, meetings, or large projects? In this lesson, you’ll learn how to use AI tools like ChatGPT to help you plan your day, prioritize effectively, and break down complex work into manageable steps.

We’ll start with daily planning, where you’ll discover how to create a reusable “master prompt” that acts like a personal planning assistant. By providing details such as your working hours, meetings, priorities, and constraints, you can generate a structured schedule that keeps you focused and productive. You’ll also learn how to customize output formats—like tables, checklists, or time-blocked schedules—so the results fit your workflow.

Next, we’ll explore how AI can help with larger projects by breaking them into clear phases, tasks, and timelines. You’ll see how to include goals, deadlines, team roles, and constraints to create actionable project plans, reducing overwhelm and improving clarity.

Finally, this lesson emphasizes building reusable planning templates and prompt libraries, so you don’t have to start from scratch each time. By the end, you’ll be able to use AI to reduce decision fatigue, stay organized, and take greater control of your day and your projects.

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to use AI tools like ChatGPT to quickly summarize complex information and extract meaningful insights from documents, articles, and meeting transcripts.

We’ll explore how AI can turn long or complicated content—such as reports or multi-hour meetings—into clear, concise summaries, helping you identify key points, action items, and decisions without having to sift through everything manually. You’ll learn how to create a reusable “summarization master prompt” that defines the level of detail, desired output, and formatting to match your needs.

This lesson also covers advanced techniques like combining multiple sources into a single cohesive summary and adapting that summary for different audiences—such as executives, team members, or customers—while keeping the core facts consistent.

Finally, you’ll see how to refine AI outputs to improve clarity, adjust length, remove unnecessary details, and even uncover missing information that could impact decision-making. By the end of this lesson, you’ll be able to use AI to simplify information, communicate more effectively, and make better, faster decisions.

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to use AI tools like ChatGPT as a powerful brainstorming partner to generate ideas quickly and creatively.

Instead of relying solely on traditional group brainstorming, you’ll discover how AI can help you think broadly, explore new perspectives, and generate a wide range of ideas—anytime you need them. You’ll learn a practical approach of starting with open-ended prompts and then narrowing down to more refined, actionable concepts.

We’ll walk through several effective brainstorming prompt patterns, including idea bursts, constraint-based prompts, role-based perspectives, categorization and ranking, and iterative refinement. You’ll also explore how to balance “safe” ideas with more experimental or unconventional ones—and even combine them to create innovative hybrid solutions.

By the end of this lesson, you’ll be able to use AI to enhance creativity, overcome idea blocks, and turn raw concepts into structured plans, outlines, and next steps—all while making brainstorming faster, easier, and more productive.

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to use AI tools like ChatGPT to improve your writing—whether you’re starting from scratch or refining something you’ve already written.

You’ll discover how AI can act as both an editor and a writing coach, helping you enhance clarity, improve flow, correct grammar, and make your writing more concise and professional. You’ll also learn how to guide AI with key inputs like audience, tone, goals, and constraints to get more targeted and effective results.

This lesson covers practical techniques such as rewriting content with explanations, adjusting tone for different audiences, and transforming the same content into multiple formats—like emails, reports, or marketing messages. You’ll also explore how to generate FAQs, refine calls to action, and create alternative versions of important content for comparison.

By the end of this lesson, you’ll be able to use AI to write faster, communicate more effectively, and elevate the quality of your content—while still staying in control as the final editor.

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to use AI tools like ChatGPT to create high-quality presentations faster and more effectively.

We’ll explore how AI can help you structure your presentation from the ground up—starting with outlines, slide titles, bullet points, and speaker notes—before you even begin designing slides in tools like PowerPoint or Canva. You’ll learn how to guide AI using key inputs such as audience, goals, tone, and time constraints to generate more targeted and impactful presentations.

This lesson also covers how to use a reusable “presentation master prompt” to streamline your workflow, along with techniques for refining slides, improving messaging, and adding visuals or storytelling elements. You’ll discover how to create engaging content, adapt presentations for different audiences, and maintain consistency across multiple versions.

By the end of this lesson, you’ll be able to use AI as your presentation partner—helping you overcome creative blocks, design more compelling slides, and deliver clear, engaging messages with less time and effort.

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to use AI tools like ChatGPT as a collaborative thought partner to help you think through decisions, refine ideas, and improve your strategic thinking.

Going beyond basic brainstorming, you’ll discover how AI can act like a coach—helping you clarify goals, challenge assumptions, and explore alternative approaches. You’ll learn how to provide the right context, define what success looks like, and use structured prompts to guide AI in offering meaningful feedback and actionable next steps.

This lesson also introduces powerful techniques such as idea ranking, structured debates (like red team vs. blue team), and stress-testing decisions to uncover risks and blind spots. You’ll see how AI can simulate different perspectives, ask clarifying questions, and help you evaluate options more objectively.

By the end of this lesson, you’ll be able to use AI as a strategic partner—helping you make better decisions, think more clearly, and approach challenges with greater confidence and insight.

While AI and prompt engineering offer powerful tools for creativity and productivity, they also come with important challenges and ethical considerations. In this lesson, you’ll explore some of the most common limitations—including bias in training data, difficulty with complex instructions, contextual misunderstandings, and overdependence on pretraining. Steve also covers ethical risks such as misinformation, offensive content generation, privacy concerns, and accountability issues when AI-generated content is used inappropriately. This is a thoughtful look at the responsibility we carry when using AI tools, and how we can navigate these challenges while staying ethical and effective.

One of the most important limitations of using AI tools like ChatGPT is something called “hallucinations.” This is the technical term for when an AI confidently gives you an answer that’s completely wrong or made up. In this lesson, Steve explores real-world examples of AI hallucinations—like incorrect stock data pulled into a table or made-up details about a public bio—and explains why this happens, especially as AI systems blend large language models with real-time search. You’ll learn why it’s crucial to double-check AI outputs, especially for factual accuracy, and how to use AI as an assistant—not a replacement—for your knowledge and judgment. This lesson reinforces why critical thinking and subject matter familiarity are essential when working with AI.

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to create and use a prompt library to save time, improve consistency, and get better results from AI tools like ChatGPT.

A prompt library is a collection of proven, reusable prompts that you can quickly access instead of starting from scratch each time. You’ll discover how building a library of your best prompts can significantly boost your productivity, maintain quality across your work, and make AI usage more efficient over time.

We’ll explore practical ways to organize your library—by task, role, project, or workflow—and how to use naming conventions, tags, and collaboration to make prompts easy to find and share across teams. You’ll also learn about simple tools you can use to build your library, from spreadsheets and documents to more advanced tools and prompt management platforms.

By the end of this lesson, you’ll be able to create a system for storing, refining, and reusing your best prompts—turning your AI workflows into a scalable, repeatable advantage.