How To Become Dangerously Self-Educated With AI (for free) — Transcript

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1. 0:00You can now teach yourself anything
2. 0:02completely for free. That's the power of
3. 0:05AI. You can get dangerously
4. 0:07self-educated and build your own
5. 0:10personal university [music]
6. 0:11right about now.
7. 0:13I've been a monk in training, an MIT
8. 0:16grad, a tech CEO, and I've seen this one
9. 0:19pattern. The people who unlock real
10. 0:22intelligence are almost always
11. 0:25relentlessly curious and self-driven.
12. 0:28So, today I'm giving you that precise
13. 0:31learning system that nobody has shared
14. 0:33so [music] far. I call it the university
15. 0:36in a box.
16. 0:38Genius name, right? But, it's a way to
17. 0:41use AI to become a self-taught expert at
18. 0:44almost anything. You'll be able to learn
19. 0:47how to build your own personal
20. 0:48curriculum from A to Z. So, let's get
21. 0:51going. Uh few months ago, I was in Los
22. 0:55Angeles and I had to give a keynote to a
23. 0:58class of 120 incoming interns at one of
24. 1:02the largest media companies. And they
25. 1:05were all from top universities and
26. 1:08schools, very sharp, very hungry, very
27. 1:12young. And I opened my speech with a
28. 1:14simple question. I said, "How many of
29. 1:16you use [music] AI for at least 30
30. 1:19minutes a day?" And I was expecting
31. 1:21[music]
32. 1:22each and every hand to go up, but I was
33. 1:26thoroughly surprised. Less than maybe 30
34. 1:29hands went up. And then I asked, "How
35. 1:32many use Instagram for more than 30
36. 1:36minutes a day?" Every single hand went
37. 1:39up. Think about the tragedy hidden in
38. 1:42this trend.
39. 1:44Here's another surprising finding. Many
40. 1:47of the world-class universities,
41. 1:49including Harvard and MIT, Stanford,
42. 1:52IIT, Oxford, LSE, many others, [music]
43. 1:56they have put many of their entire
44. 1:59courses online. The entire semester
45. 2:02worth of classes online for free.
46. 2:05And 88% of all users who start those
47. 2:10courses don't finish them. There's
48. 2:12almost nine out of 10 of us. And it gets
49. 2:15even better now because with AI today,
50. 2:18you're holding a multi-million dollar
51. 2:21university in the same pocket with
52. 2:24Instagram. The most powerful
53. 2:27intelligence engine
54. 2:29in human history
55. 2:31is waiting for you.
56. 2:32And you don't even have to pay
57. 2:35>> [music]
58. 2:35>> $250,000
59. 2:37for that education. And that's the
60. 2:38system we want to build today. And I
61. 2:41don't mean some new Notion template or
62. 2:43anything. Instead, we'll go through five
63. 2:47radical roles that you can give AI. One
64. 2:51easy way to remember these five rules is
65. 2:54to arrange them by their first letters.
66. 2:57It spells alter.
67. 3:00Which kind of fits, right? Because these
68. 3:02roles alter the way you think, the way
69. 3:05you learn, the way you behave,
70. 3:08and the way you graduate. So, let's
71. 3:10build them one at a time. First things
72. 3:12cool, you need an advisor. That's where
73. 3:15we begin. To understand that concept a
74. 3:17little better, let's go to Liverpool. In
75. 3:19the '60s, there was a city full of
76. 3:21shipyards and docks. And there were
77. 3:24three teenagers who started a band
78. 3:26called Johnny and the Moondogs. They
79. 3:29didn't know then that they would change
80. 3:32the world of music forever. John Lennon,
81. 3:35Paul McCartney, George Harrison
82. 3:37eventually went on to become the
83. 3:40Beatles. But
84. 3:42they were lost for a while. They got
85. 3:44turned down by every label in London
86. 3:47until they found their creative advisor,
87. 3:50the fifth Beatle, George Martin. He
88. 3:53became the music producer for the band
89. 3:56and he was able to hear what the four of
90. 3:59them couldn't. And the band went on to
91. 4:02create some of the most loved music ever
92. 4:04made. And this story keeps repeating
93. 4:07since the dawn of humanity. If you don't
94. 4:10have Aristotle, you don't get Alexander
95. 4:13the Great.
96. 4:14Every great Michael Jordan needs a coach
97. 4:17like Phil Jackson. Because good advisors
98. 4:20study you and they build a personalized
99. 4:24path for you. If today all the
100. 4:27universities started offering customized
101. 4:29courseware for each and every student,
102. 4:32they would all go bankrupt. If you go to
103. 4:35a gym and every person walking in gets a
104. 4:38personal trainer, they'll never make
105. 4:40money. But here's why things are
106. 4:42changing dramatically for all of us.
107. 4:45Today's AI can become your perfect
108. 4:48academic advisor when you're ready to
109. 4:50learn anything. And how do you make AI a
110. 4:54great advisor?
111. 4:55Ask it for five decisions. First,
112. 4:59destination. What do you want to know or
113. 5:02do at the end when you're done learning
114. 5:04it?
115. 5:05Second,
116. 5:06baseline. Where are you on this topic
117. 5:09right now? Basic level, intermediate,
118. 5:12nothing? Third, sequencing. What order
119. 5:16do you learn this topic in? That's
120. 5:18really important. [music] And fourth,
121. 5:20cut list. What should you ignore for
122. 5:22now?
123. 5:23And fifth and final, milestones. What
124. 5:27output from you will show that you
125. 5:29mastered the topic and you're ready to
126. 5:32move on.
127. 5:33Let's make this concrete. Let's say if
128. 5:35you wanted to learn business finance.
129. 5:38Obviously, you're not going to give a
130. 5:40prompt saying, "Teach me corporate
131. 5:42finance." Instead,
132. 5:44type, "Act as my elite academic advisor.
133. 5:48We want to build a 6-week custom course.
134. 5:52I want to learn about how finance works
135. 5:55in business, so I can understand how to
136. 5:58use those skills to build my own
137. 6:00business.
138. 6:01First, interview me
139. 6:03to find my weaknesses, my baseline.
140. 6:07I want to define the destination, build
141. 6:10the sequence, list what I should ignore
142. 6:12for now, and also give me weekly
143. 6:16milestones, so I can prove that I'm
144. 6:19ready to move on.
145. 6:20Ask me up to five questions for each of
146. 6:22these five steps, one question at a
147. 6:25time. Now, the exact prompt is not that
148. 6:28important. In fact, you can ask AI to
149. 6:31make you an even better prompt than the
150. 6:33one I just gave you. The goal is to
151. 6:35leverage AI to create the right personal
152. 6:38curriculum for you. This doesn't have to
153. 6:41be just business or finance or anything.
154. 6:44What if you wanted to master something
155. 6:46grounded in human judgment, in art, in
156. 6:50taste, in style? What if you wanted to
157. 6:53master design theory? You can use the
158. 6:55same structure. In fact, you can use
159. 6:58Gemini because it has the multimodal
160. 7:01capabilities. So, it's almost like
161. 7:04giving a pair of eyes to your advisor.
162. 7:06In all such self-education adventures,
163. 7:10AI no longer remains as your lazy text
164. 7:15generator. It is an intelligence engine
165. 7:18that becomes your path builder. So,
166. 7:21let's say you build a 6-week plan with
167. 7:24your AI advisor, but [music] how do you
168. 7:26make it actionable? This is where an
169. 7:29automation tool like Zapier would come
170. 7:31in.
171. 7:32They're sponsoring this part of the
172. 7:33video because I wanted to show how you
173. 7:36can connect your plans to the apps
174. 7:39[music] that you already use. And Zapier
175. 7:41connects to over 9,000 of them.
176. 7:44So, let's do it step by step. You need
177. 7:47something called Zapier MCP. Now, think
178. 7:50of MCP as a gateway that gets your AI
179. 7:54out of the prompt window
180. 7:56and lets it actually use your apps like
181. 7:59calendars and docs and your emails. You
182. 8:02set it up once and it takes only a
183. 8:04couple of minutes. So, let's do it.
184. 8:06Let's go to Zapier and pick a template.
185. 8:10This is the easiest way to do it. The
186. 8:12link is in the description. Now, you
187. 8:14connect your AI. I'm using Claude for
188. 8:17this one.
189. 8:18And then choose which apps you want to
190. 8:20give access to.
191. 8:22>> [music]
192. 8:22>> I'm turning on Google Calendar and
193. 8:25Google Docs.
194. 8:27And then you set the permissions [music]
195. 8:29and when you head back to Claude,
196. 8:31make sure Zapier is toggled on in the
197. 8:34connectors [music] list. And that's it.
198. 8:36You're ready. The gateway is now open.
199. 8:40Now, your AI has a pair of hands.
200. 8:43So, you go back to the plan that you
201. 8:44just built and type a few lines.
202. 8:47>> [music]
203. 8:48>> Like take the 6-week curriculum that we
204. 8:51just built and save it to a Google Doc.
205. 8:54Do it in a week-by-week format with the
206. 8:57topic, the sources, and the milestone
207. 8:59for each week.
208. 9:01Then put every study session on my
209. 9:05Google Calendar
210. 9:07and send me a reminder the day before.
211. 9:10That's it and it does all of that. The
212. 9:12plan you made a few minutes ago is now
213. 9:14sitting in the apps you use every day.
214. 9:18That's what tools like Zapier can do for
215. 9:19you. And that's the difference between
216. 9:22AI that talks to you and AI that
217. 9:25actually does the work for you.
218. 9:27Now, you have an advisor and an
219. 9:30assistant together. But, even the best
220. 9:33paths will break if the sources you
221. 9:36learn from are garbage. That's where we
222. 9:39go next. Once you build your curriculum,
223. 9:42the next battle is sticking to it.
224. 9:45Stanford researchers tested more than
225. 9:487,800 students on how well they judged
226. 9:52information online. The result was
227. 9:55embarrassing. 82% of middle schoolers
228. 9:58could not tell the difference between
229. 10:01sponsored content and real news. Now,
230. 10:04these are not some
231. 10:06ancient villagers discovering the
232. 10:09internet for the first time, right?
233. 10:11These were digital natives. They knew
234. 10:14how to use the internet. They just
235. 10:16didn't know how easily internet could
236. 10:20abuse their trust. The algorithm and the
237. 10:23feed is not interested in teaching you
238. 10:26anything. It only cares about keeping
239. 10:29you there.
240. 10:30>> [music]
241. 10:30>> That's why the AI librarian matters.
242. 10:33Their job is to defend the curriculum
243. 10:36from distraction. It's a triaging
244. 10:39function that tells you which 10 sources
245. 10:41deserve your attention, your time, and
246. 10:44which thousands you can ignore.
247. 10:46It helps you figure out this belongs,
248. 10:49this doesn't. [music] This is credible,
249. 10:51this is too advanced. This is signal,
250. 10:53this is noise. So, let's see the
251. 10:56librarian in action. [music]
252. 10:58Let's use Notebook LM. First, build a
253. 11:01shelf. Find the three or four sources
254. 11:04that actually matter. Uh textbook, uh
255. 11:08YouTube course, or a bunch of videos, a
256. 11:12podcast,
257. 11:13um an academic paper, a bunch of
258. 11:16newspaper articles, whatever it is that
259. 11:18you can find. What if you don't know
260. 11:20what sources to look for? Well, you can
261. 11:23use deep research on Gemini or Claude or
262. 11:26ChatGPT to find those sources. Then,
263. 11:29load these documents to Google's [music]
264. 11:32Notebook LM. And nowadays, you can
265. 11:33create a new notebook from Gemini
266. 11:35itself. Now, your AI is not wandering
267. 11:39homelessly across the open internet.
268. 11:41>> [music]
269. 11:41>> It is anchored to the ground truth you
270. 11:44just gave it. But now, how do you make
271. 11:47the most out of these documents? This is
272. 11:49where notebook LM changes the game. You
273. 11:52can turn anything into a podcast or a
274. 11:55video or a slideshow. Let's say you want
275. 11:59to educate yourself on building great
276. 12:03money habits. Okay, so let's do it live.
277. 12:05I love this book called The Psychology
278. 12:08of Money. It's by Morgan Housel. And
279. 12:10I've read this book. I grabbed a bunch
280. 12:13of very good videos from YouTube and
281. 12:15interviews that the author himself has
282. 12:17done and I put them
283. 12:19>> [music]
284. 12:19>> into notebook LM. And now, I click on
285. 12:22studio and then it's going to start a
286. 12:25podcast. And you can listen to it during
287. 12:28your walk, during your commute.
288. 12:30And you can even call in.
289. 12:32>> Welcome to today's deep dive. We have a
290. 12:34a really fascinating mission ahead of us
291. 12:36today, entirely custom-tailored for you
292. 12:38listening [music] right now.
293. 12:39>> Yeah, it's a great one. We're looking at
294. 12:40a huge stack of sources today.
295. 12:42>> And they all point to one specific
296. 12:43subject. So, we are going to be
297. 12:44summarizing the core lessons from Morgan
298. 12:47Housel's incredibly popular book, The
299. 12:49Psychology of Money.
300. 12:50>> Now, you can even call in.
301. 12:51>> Read honestly.
302. 12:52>> Oh, it really is. And the mission of
303. 12:53this deep dive is to prove a premise
304. 12:56that kind of Oh, hey, I think our
305. 12:57listeners got something to say.
306. 12:59>> Yes, I love your podcast. I just had a
307. 13:01quick question. What's the one-line
308. 13:03summary of the book?
309. 13:05What's the key message?
310. 13:07>> That is a brilliant question. We love it
311. 13:09when you jump in like that.
312. 13:10>> Seriously, it is the perfect way to kick
313. 13:12things off.
314. 13:12>> If we had to boil it down to one key
315. 13:14message, it's this.
316. 13:15>> Doing well with money has little to do
317. 13:18with how smart you are.
318. 13:19>> Exactly. It has everything to do with
319. 13:20how you behave.
320. 13:21>> Financial success is a soft skill, not a
321. 13:23hard science.
322. 13:25>> And the ultimate goal of that
323. 13:26>> This is all AI. This is not some
324. 13:28futuristic thing. It's all here,
325. 13:31available right now. And by the way, if
326. 13:33you love such concepts and ideas, and if
327. 13:37you want to go deeper, you can join my
328. 13:39newsletter. It shows up in your inbox
329. 13:42every Tuesday.
330. 13:44It's one insight, one tool, one
331. 13:47practice. I remember it.
332. 13:50And I love writing it. It's completely
333. 13:52free. The link is down below. But a good
334. 13:55source alone can't guarantee
335. 13:58understanding. At some point, the
336. 14:00material will stop making sense to you.
337. 14:02And this is exactly when you need the
338. 14:05[music] tutor.
339. 14:06A teacher and a tutor
340. 14:09serve two different roles. The teacher
341. 14:11explains it. [music]
342. 14:12The tutor diagnoses your specific
343. 14:15confusion one-on-one. A good tutor makes
344. 14:19it harder for you to fake understanding.
345. 14:21Tutoring has always been the luxury good
346. 14:24of education. Um psychologist named
347. 14:27Benjamin Bloom wrote about this in the
348. 14:29'80s, and it became known as the
349. 14:33two-sigma problem.
350. 14:34And he found that students with
351. 14:37one-on-one tutoring
352. 14:38>> [music]
353. 14:38>> performed way better than the rest of
354. 14:41the students who sat in conventional
355. 14:43classrooms. The average student who got
356. 14:46tutored performed above 98% of the
357. 14:50students in the control class. That was
358. 14:52one of the most important findings in
359. 14:55education. And also one of the most
360. 14:57frustrating, because everybody got to
361. 15:00know that tutoring works, but not
362. 15:04everyone can afford a private tutor
363. 15:07until now, that is. AI completely breaks
364. 15:11the economics of human intelligence. A
365. 15:13world-class tutor can now sit with you
366. 15:16at midnight, ask you uncomfortable
367. 15:19questions, refine your logic, and refuse
368. 15:22to leave until the concept finally
369. 15:25clicks. I use AI both as a teacher and a
370. 15:29tutor. So, here's the tutor in action. I
371. 15:33usually use either ChatGPT voice or
372. 15:36Gemini voice because tutoring should
373. 15:38feel like the office hour. So, how do
374. 15:40you actually do this? Just let's do it
375. 15:43live. I have Gemini voice mode on my
376. 15:47iPhone right now. I'm going to hit voice
377. 15:49mode and say the following.
378. 15:52Be my tutor on the idea of enough
379. 15:57from the book The Psychology of Money.
380. 16:00Ask me one question at a time.
381. 16:03Don't lecture me. Find the gap in my
382. 16:06understanding. Be precise.
383. 16:08Let's go.
384. 16:09>> How does constantly comparing yourself
385. 16:11to others make it difficult to define
386. 16:13your own personal version of enough?
387. 16:16>> Okay, you get it. So, that was a
388. 16:18complete improvisation because I didn't
389. 16:20know what the AI tutor was going to ask,
390. 16:23but that's what would happen in real
391. 16:26life as well. Sometimes you'll get
392. 16:29questions you don't know the answers to
393. 16:31and you'll have to work with the tutor
394. 16:33to learn about it. That's the whole
395. 16:35point. The two best commands in AI are
396. 16:38teach me
397. 16:40and test me.
398. 16:41I love both of them, but there is still
399. 16:43one problem. Learning all the skills is
400. 16:46great, but when you have to deliver
401. 16:48something, you need honest feedback. You
402. 16:51need refinements. That's why the next
403. 16:54rule is so important, the editor.
404. 16:56>> [music]
405. 16:56>> That's where we go next. A tutor helps
406. 16:58you understand. An editor helps you
407. 17:01deliver. A typical Formula 1 race is
408. 17:04about 90 minutes, but the difference
409. 17:07between winning and losing can be just a
410. 17:10few seconds. That's why a large team of
411. 17:14engineers for every race car company
412. 17:17monitor thousands of data points in real
413. 17:19time, constantly feeding tiny
414. 17:22corrections back to the driver. Because
415. 17:26if you can shave off just a fraction of
416. 17:28a second at every turn, you can change
417. 17:31the outcome. Real-time feedback is
418. 17:34everything in that game because
419. 17:36excellence lives in feedback.
420. 17:39That's why authors have editors,
421. 17:42filmmakers have editors, journalists
422. 17:45have editors, too. Even CEOs have
423. 17:48boards. They're editors. Your AI can be
424. 17:51a great editor. When I write anything
425. 17:54nowadays that's important, I usually
426. 17:57take time to review it with ChatGPT or
427. 18:00Gemini or Claude.
428. 18:03And I
429. 18:04ask AI to challenge my thinking, my
430. 18:07logic, find the weakness in my
431. 18:10arguments,
432. 18:12cut repetition, tighten the structure,
433. 18:15make the language more precise or
434. 18:17concrete. AI can be your powerful ally
435. 18:21when it comes to editing your work. But
436. 18:24you still have to fly the plane. And
437. 18:26that brings us to the fifth and final
438. 18:29role, the roommate. Because in the
439. 18:32future that we're heading into,
440. 18:34>> [music]
441. 18:34>> your depth and your expertise will
442. 18:37constantly be challenged.
443. 18:40You'll have to renew them all the time.
444. 18:42You will need range, and that comes from
445. 18:45your roommate.
446. 18:47That's where we go next. When I was
447. 18:49living in a dorm, my roommate and I had
448. 18:53absolutely nothing in common, but our
449. 18:56late-night conversations were always
450. 18:59wonderful. They were eye-opening for me
451. 19:02because he would constantly talk about
452. 19:04the economy of design, the aesthetic
453. 19:08tradeoffs, the compromises, the
454. 19:11craftsmanship.
455. 19:13In fact, he taught me as much about
456. 19:16entrepreneurship and taste [music] and
457. 19:18strategy as a business professor would.
458. 19:22This is exactly what Pixar did when they
459. 19:25started building their own in-house
460. 19:27training school. The company put all of
461. 19:30its animators in sculpting class, and
462. 19:33the accountants and security guards were
463. 19:35put in drawing classes. Why? Because
464. 19:38when you get a perspective
465. 19:40from a world that's different than
466. 19:42yours, it helps you understand your own
467. 19:45world a little better. So, the question
468. 19:47is, how do you make AI that roommate
469. 19:50that brings you that fresh perspective?
470. 19:53Well, ask it to talk about things that
471. 19:56are completely outside of your field.
472. 19:59What's the connection between cooking
473. 20:02>> [music]
474. 20:02>> and finance?
475. 20:04How does a jazz musician think about
476. 20:06playing with others, and how does that
477. 20:10relate to building teams? Roommates help
478. 20:13you ask questions you would never ask on
479. 20:15your own. They hand you a stranger's
480. 20:18lens, so you can see the world for the
481. 20:20first time [music] again. So, that's
482. 20:22your university in a box. The whole
483. 20:25alter framework: advisor, librarian,
484. 20:28tutor, editor, and your roommate. And
485. 20:31it's all just one prompt away.
486. 20:35Something you can start using tonight.
487. 20:38So,
488. 20:39what comes next?
489. 20:41Let me leave you with one last story. A
490. 20:44young, eager student arrived [music] at
491. 20:47the riverside, and she was in a real
492. 20:50rush, a real hurry to go across the
493. 20:52river.
494. 20:54But, there was no bridge, just some
495. 20:56boats lying around, all shapes and
496. 20:59sizes. So, she asked the old boatman who
497. 21:03was just standing [music] there, "Sir,
498. 21:05which boat would get me across the river
499. 21:08fastest?
500. 21:10And the boatman smiled and said, "The
501. 21:13one you get into and start rowing."
502. 21:18I'll see you next week. Thank you, and I
503. 21:21love you.