How To Learn Anything 5x Faster Using ChatGPT

May 19, 2023

“Comfort is the killer of creativity.”

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In today’s email:  

  • AI Tool Of The Day 🛠️ - AI text-to-speech generators continue to make waves

  • AI Content Tip Of The Day🖋️ - How to use ChatGPT to learn anything 5x faster (before you create content about it)

  • AI Story Of The Day đź“°- An AI singer goes viral in China

AI Tool Of The Day 🛠️

Verbatik - Over 600 text-to-speech voices in over 142 languages and accents. Users can even change the emotion and set the tone.

Over time, we’ll see text-to-speech (TTS) software being used by written content creators to branch out into audio/video mediums with minimal extra effort.

While the results will probably be underwhelming at first, the possibilities are exciting.

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AI Content Tip Of The Day đź–‹ď¸Ź

Use ChatGPT To Learn 5x Faster: The 80/20 Principle

I’ve become semi-obsessed with rapid learning recently.

Ultimately, I want to create content on a lot of different topics, but I’d be foolish to convince myself that I was an expert on all of them.

Realizing that I didn’t need to be an expert on every topic I wrote about was a key step in overcoming imposter syndrome.

What I need to become is competent in each topic and several steps ahead of the people I’m teaching with my content.

The 80/20 principle (a.k.a the Pareto Principle) is one of the main ways in which I achieve this now.

It’s a rule of thumb that suggests that 80% of the outcomes or results come from 20% of the efforts.

It can be applied to various fields of life, one of which is learning.

Recently, I’ve started using ChatGPT to help me identify the 20% of key concepts and principles that will give me 80% of the understanding of various topics.

I created a ChatGPT prompt to generate an 80/20 learning plan for a specific subject, topic, or subtopic.

This has two main use cases for me:

  1. To learn a topic in more depth before creating content about it.

  2. To generate a structured outline for the content I’m creating. For example, you could use each step of the learning plan as a H2 heading in a blog post or as a chapter of a book.

The Prompt Template 🤖:

"I'd like to learn about a topic following the 80/20 principle to ensure efficiency and focus on the highest impact aspects. I need your assistance in identifying the most important 20% of this subject that will give me 80% of the understanding. Use this information to generate a structured learning plan for me. Please take the following details into account:

1. Subject, topic, or concept I want to learn about: [insert]

2. My current level of knowledge on this topic: [insert, eg. beginner, intermediate, advanced]

3. The context in which I'll use this knowledge: [insert, eg. professional, academic, personal interest]

4. The amount of time I have to learn this topic: [insert]

5. Preferred learning style: [insert, eg. reading, videos, hands-on exercises]

6. Any specific subtopics of interest within the larger subject: [insert, if applicable]


Please provide an overview of the key aspects or principles of the topic. 

(Optional) - Identify the resources that can help me grasp these essentials efficiently.

You can go as niche or as broad as you want.

You could go broad and ask for the top 20% of key concepts in “music production”.

Or, you could go more niche and ask for the top 20% of key concepts in “EQ filtering for bass recordings”.

Once you’ve generated a learning plan, you could go a step further and ask ChatGPT to recommend resources for each aspect of the plan.

If you really wanted to accelerate the process, you could ask ChatGPT to teach you instead if you felt comfortable doing so.

You could also ask ChatGPT to dig deeper into the learning plan and give you subtopics or subtasks for each step.

In fact, I often do.

Example 💻️ :

I asked ChatGPT to generate an intensive 4-week 80/20 learning plan for the topic of houseplant care.

Here’s what I got in response:

Zoom in if you have to.

Try it out for yourself!

Supercharge the learning process by applying the 80/20 principle to whatever you’re looking to create content on.

AI Story Of The Day đź“° 

AI Songs Take China By Storm

Mandopop singer Stefanie Sun has gone viral on China’s Bilibili platform due to AI-generated songs featuring her cloned voice.

The growing trend of Deepfake singing raises concerns over copyright protection and the violation of artists’ rights.

Intellectual property has become a hot topic in recent months due to the rapid rise of AI-generated content.

No matter what type of content you create, it’s a debate worth tuning into and following closely.

And that’s all for today my fellow creators!

Tune in next Monday. Have a great weekend 🙂

Misya, The Pen Pivot