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00:00I've been programming since I was 17 and even I feel the pressure to keep up with AI. New tools
00:05drop daily. Everyone's an expert and the more you search for answers the harder it gets to move
00:11forward. But after diving deep, learning everything I could about AI, building my own AI companies,
00:16I've realized something. The real problem isn't that AI is hard to learn, it's that you're stuck
00:21in the noise. So today I'm going to break down a simple four-stage roadmap to go from AI beginner
00:28to AI pro, even if you have zero technical background. Stage one, choose your AI toolkit.
00:35I've got a friend, he's a freaking genius. His name is Chris. He literally goes chasing AI tool,
00:40knows them all, tells you how they all work. But when you look at his life, he's the same Chris I
00:45met 10 years ago. And the reason why is he keeps resetting. See, most people get into this squirrel
00:50mentality of collecting information about AI. What's more important is that you apply it and
00:56actually get a result from it. Most people have too many options. They think they don't have enough,
01:02so they're worried that they're going to fail by not saying yes to everything. I'm telling you,
01:06it's the saying no to all the options and picking one and going hard in the pain. Instead of going
01:11a mile wide and an inch deep, go a mile deep and learn these tools. See, most beginners die from
01:17indigestion, not starvation. So here's how to pick your toolkit. First off, we have to audit your task
01:23list. We got to look at all the things that you're doing every day that's just sucking up your time,
01:27that's draining your energy, that AI was specifically designed to help you overcome.
01:32Make that list and start looking for groups of activities that you can use AI to do for you. Next,
01:38you have to think about what is a bucket of things that you're working on that AI could help you with
01:43and pick two tools for that specific task. If it's copywriting, if it's answering phone calls,
01:48if it's writing emails, if it's coming up with ideas and you think there's no way that AI can do
01:53it, trust me, it can. The reason we want two tools is so that we can figure out which one's going to
01:58best accomplish it for the way we like. See, a lot of people don't like AI because it doesn't feel
02:03like the way I do it. Okay, guess what? Two tools, two different outcomes, pick the one that feels most
02:08organic to you and run with it. Next, we want to commit to seven days in a row of doing the work,
02:14picking that one tool and applying it to that task until we figure it out. And I get it. You
02:20might overwhelm yourself. You might get frustrated. It may not initially do it exactly the way you
02:25want, but just play with it. The cool thing about AI, it gets better and better every freaking week.
02:31Finally, make it a habit. I call this habit stacking. See, most people have a hard time
02:35adding something new to their life because they don't force themselves to wake up and stack that
02:40against another habit. So the way I do it is I find something that today I do no matter what. And
02:45then I add to that new behavior so that I stack it against something else. So I like to read every
02:50day in the morning. So when I really wanted to plug in this AI world of mine, I added prompting AI
02:56after I read in the same chair three prompts every day for months. Now my default is to go to AI. I've
03:02already used it 26 times today and it's the first thing in the morning. Now that you've chosen which
03:07tool to use, it's time to get really freaking good at how to use them. I call this prompt like
03:12a pro. The other day I was hanging out with my buddy and he's like, I use AI. Look at this. Hey,
03:17AI, tell me what the weather's going to look like tomorrow. Isn't that cool? I'm like, bro,
03:22do not think asking it to tell you what the weather is tomorrow is using AI. It can do way more.
03:29For example, I sit on a board, incredible company. I was busy with a lot of other projects. I got the
03:34board packed. This is all the information, the financial analysis, the update from the CEO,
03:39any other notes from anybody else on those executive teams. And I didn't have a chance
03:42to look it over. So what I do, I took all that information and I plugged it into my own private
03:47AI because it's private and it's secure and it's safe. And then I asked it, Hey, act as an investor
03:53and tell me what are the five questions I should be asking the CEO based on this information.
03:57The call started, everybody starts asking questions. And then finally I get my turn.
04:02The first questions got the CEO looking at me. Like, how did you know that that information
04:08around gross margin was on page 27 of the financial plan? And I didn't even know it.
04:12And you asked me about it. The truth is I don't like to work hard. I like to work smart and AI
04:17makes me wildly smart. You essentially need to become a prompt engineer, but I'll show you how
04:22to get the same results without spending years trying to become one. So this is my four step prompting
04:27process to go from AI beginner to AI pro. The first one is the role. You have to tell it,
04:32act like it. I literally get really fun with these. I tell it to act like the most eccentric version of
04:38the person, because what that does is it allows the AI to look at all the information it has and
04:43discount or add things that it knows only that kind of person would be interested in. Next, we want to
04:49give it the context. I like using AI to help me with financial planning. So what did I give it?
04:54I gave it everything. I gave it my bank statements. I gave it all of my past investments. I gave it all
05:00the legal documents. Then I ask it questions like based on my age and my goals, what do you think I
05:06should consider adjusting? These are things that people pay some other person to do for them that
05:11AI can not only do it better, faster without the freaking attitude. Next, we want to give it the
05:17command. Essentially, we want to tell it what we want. So if you want it, for example, to draft a legal
05:21document, if you have to give it the command for what it's trying to accomplish based on what you gave
05:26it. Next, we want to give it the format. And this for me, I think a lot of people misunderstand how
05:30powerful this is. Format, yes, is a list, but formats also a spreadsheet, a PDF, a JSON output for the
05:38nerds in the audience. You can literally ask it to write the code for your next idea and watch it spit
05:44back code. Now, this is a cheat code of cheat codes. At the end, once you've talked to AI and
05:50you've given all the prompt engineering, you've gotten to an answer you like, here's a really great
05:54way to get there faster. Ask it to write the prompt that would have got you to that result faster and
06:00it will give it to you. And then all of a sudden now you're learning how to talk to AI in a more
06:05productive manner. Which, by the way, if you're a business owner and you want my step-by-step prompting
06:10format for all areas of your business, just go find me on Instagram. It's Dan Martell,
06:142L's and Martell, and follow me. Then message me the word YouTube prompt and I will send it directly
06:20to you. So now you know which tools and how to use them, but with how fast everything's changing,
06:25you have to create your own learning rhythm. Schools don't teach kids AI. If anything,
06:30they get in massive trouble if they even consider using it. Now, I get it. Some teachers are like,
06:35yeah, but you don't understand. If you let them use it, they're never going to learn anything.
06:39I completely disagree. I have been teaching my kids AI from the moment it was released. They use
06:45it every day for their creative projects. And what I'm supposed to pretend like the future doesn't
06:49have AI in it. That's like when, before we had the internet, if people wanted to learn something,
06:54they had to like walk to the library to get a book and find the right book. They had the answer to their
06:58question. And then the internet came along and all of a sudden it got brought to us. AI is the exact same
07:03thing. And you're telling me we shouldn't let people use the internet and instead force them to walk to
07:08the library to learn, not something I can support. Because once you stop learning, you start dying.
07:14This is the AI learning rhythm. That's going to turn you into a pro. First, it comes down to daily
07:18consumption. I'm a big fan of using my feed to feed my mind. So I want to make sure that wherever I put
07:24my time and attention, it's feeding me the things that I want to get better. So here's how I do it.
07:28I open up my phone and I go to TikTok and I search for AI construction or whatever your field is. And
07:35then I give it a FYP in the comments of the videos that it shows me. So it tells the algorithm to change
07:42my algorithm to only show me things that is relevant to what I'm doing. Whatever your role is, you
07:47literally do that. And now when you go on TikTok, you will have a feed that's going to teach you how to
07:52become an AI pro. Next, you want to create your weekly mastermind. I'm a big fan of learning through
07:58osmosis. So what I did months ago is I decided to do a weekly mastermind with people I saw online
08:04creating content. And it's very simple. They don't even know me. I reach out to them. I ask them if
08:09they want to come have lunch on Zoom. And we just talk. One of my favorite questions I ask them right
08:13now is what do you think they're going to release in the next frontier model? Talking to people that are
08:18doing it at the frontier that you find on social media using the first step is how you stay
08:24competitive. Next, we want to do a monthly tool audit. Go back to step one and go back to all the
08:30tasks that you're working on, specifically the things that suck your energy that you really don't
08:34want to do. And ask yourself, can AI today replace that work? See, what you can do today changes every
08:41three months in a massive way. Finally, a quarterly event or going to a workshop. At the end of the day,
08:47there's no way that you on your own with your assistant can recruit and have these meetings
08:51every week. And it's going to give you coverage. What I want to encourage you to do is find the AI
08:56focused event in your industry, or at least the industry event. And hopefully they have a whole
09:01section on AI. I'd be a little bit concerned if they didn't and go sit in that room, be around those
09:07people. That's where you find potential peers, advisors, or vendors that can help you solve the
09:12biggest problems you've got using AI. So you can get leverage because you don't want to default to
09:16labor. You want to look for leverage, but there's one last shift. And honestly, it's the one that
09:21will make sure you stay ahead because it's not just about using AI to get stuff done. You need to
09:26become a director, not a doer. People ask me all the time, will AI replace me? How do I stay
09:32competitive? Here's what I've learned. There's only three things AI won't replace. One vision. Can you
09:39predict and see a future that doesn't exist yet? That should. Hey, see AI, just like great music,
09:45it doesn't know when to stop taking things away to consider something complete. Your taste by
09:52reviewing 1500 different Facebook ads, but understanding what the market's going to resonate
09:57with, that is invaluable. And lastly, it's care. A lot of people call this EQ, emotional intelligence,
10:03your ability to care for people, to interact with people in a caring way, that AI will not disrupt.
10:10So you need to become a visionary. You need to become somebody that can predict and see around the
10:14corner because AI will take care of the last mile. So this is how you become a director,
10:19not a doer. First, we have to stop being busy. A lot of people confuse busyness with motion.
10:26If most of your day is just busy task work back to back, you have to step back and look for ways
10:32automating all of that stuff because in 10 years, AI will be doing 99% of your to-do list.
10:38Next, we have to upgrade our taste. This is about understanding what great output looks like. It
10:43doesn't matter if it's art or business or leadership. You want to study the best in the
10:48world. You want to look at what they're doing and ask yourself, what's the pattern that they're all
10:52following that's contributing to that success? Honestly, that's why I love social media. A lot
10:57of people say it can be used for harm. I think it's the most helpful thing in the world if you use it
11:01properly. So go find those examples, follow those people, study those videos on YouTube, and just go and
11:07bathe in world-class mastery. Next, we have to simplify our thinking. See, to be a great director,
11:13you need to be able to explain complex problems in a simple way. Let other people go, oh, that makes
11:19sense. So being able to understand what's available out there, but then create a plan that's simple but
11:25powerful, that's going to make you an AI pro. And lastly, we have to practice self-reflection.
11:30A life unexamined is a life not lived. We have to look at ways that we can get feedback from other
11:36people. It could be our team. It could be our family members. You have to be willing to seek the
11:40feedback, the self-reflection to understand, is my calendar getting better? Am I becoming more
11:46effective? Is AI giving me more time back? I know AI is overwhelming. But honestly, if you follow this
11:52simple roadmap, you'll stay ahead of 99% of the people. You're watching this because you're like,
11:57hey, I don't want to be one of those people that wake up and go, hey, what happened to the horse and
12:02buggy? And why is everybody driving around in these cars? But here's what I've seen, because I'm a
12:06technology guy. When Uber launched, are all the people that drive Ubers previous taxi drivers?
12:12Or are they just normal people that shifted into new roles? Most of them never drove a taxi before
12:17they drove Uber. The truth is, is as innovation creates new opportunity, we're just going to have
12:22people migrate from one skilled area to another. That's what happened in the industrial revolution
12:27and many other transitions along the way. But the difference is the people that were here
12:32ahead of the curve and wanted to take advantage. They sold the picks and shovels to all the people
12:37looking for gold. That's the opportunity in front of you. Now, if you want to learn how to get rich
12:42in the new AI era, click the video and I'll see you on the other side.
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