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Hey there. This week on the show, we're going to talk about something that you know very well inside and out, better than anyone on the planet, and that's you. And I'm going to give you an exercise that you can go through, whether using Claude or ChatGPT or others to put all that knowledge to work for good so that you can get more relevant and meaningful, valuable output every time you use the tool. So let's get more personal with ChatGPT and tools like it. If that sounds interesting to you, stick with me and I'll see you on the other side of the music. Hey gang. Welcome to the ChatGPT experiment. This is the podcast designed to help you better understand how to use tools like ChatGPT to get more productivity, a little bit of nugget from your personal or professional life. My name is Kerry Weston. I'm your host. Welcome to the show and today I want to talk about you. Right, I want to talk about you and more specifically I want you to think about you. And here's why. I had a friend reach out last week who's just now getting into ChatGPT and really has been using it like Google. A lot of people do that, asking questions and getting answers and that kind of thing. But he's starting to use it for his work. And he sent me a note and he said, I don't understand why I'm not getting the right answer. I'm summarizing it. But that's basically what he was saying. And so I said, what are you talking about? Give me a little bit more information. And he's talking about shopping for this particular accessory that would help him in the job that he does. And the responses that he was getting was leaving something out, was leaving out a brand. He was asking about which brand is better and how do I do this and how do I do that? And it was leaving out a particular brand. And he said, that's the only brand I use. Yet it was not suggesting accessories under this brand name. And it got me thinking. So I asked him, how much does Chat know about you? And to be honest, I don't know if he was using Claude or Chat. But we'll just for the sake of this story, because it's the same, I said, chad, and how much does Chad know about you? He says, what do you mean? I said, well, how much information have you invested in getting it to know you? He said, well, I use it, but I don't think I know what you're talking about. And I started thinking, how much time. I want to pause. I want to ask you a question to listeners. How much time have you spent really investing in your AI tool of choice and getting it to know you? Okay, so that's what I want to talk about today. Because the simple answer to his question, if he had spent the time and invested in getting the tool to know he him, the answer would have been completely different. It would have been customized to the things that matter to him. And the reason I'm bringing this up is a lot of folks are using Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, the tool, right. More and more. And they're counting on the tool to remember and build a profile of you and the things that you talk about and the things that you do and the things that you build. Because the memory is getting better, the memory is getting smarter, and it does things like remembers to ask you certain things because you've been there before. So it seems like with all of this technology built in that it would remember things about you and it would know you very, very well. And I've said this before and a previous episode, if you want to know where you stand with whatever tool you are using at the moment, do this simple exercise. Ask what do you know about me personally and professionally? What do you know about me personally and professionally? And see what it brings back. And I say all this because it's time for you to start thinking about how do I teach the tool that I'm using more about me so that the work that I'm doing, the answers that I'm getting, the interactions that I'm having, become more personal, become more relevant and become more valuable? We are past the time in the evolution of the software inside ChatGPT and Claude for us to be accepting is anything else than valuable, than meaningful, than really, really specialized to us on things that matter to us. Okay, so if you're just now getting into tools like Claude and chatgpt. Good, Right. If you are advanced and you have used it repetitively, maybe you think that the tool knows you Maybe you don't think you need to customize it. Well, I'm sharing with you. Ask it what do I know or what does it know about me personally and professionally and see where the truth is, see where the editing needs to be done, see where the holes are. Okay, so if you do that, two questions. What do I do with the information I get? And why does it matter? Perfectly valid questions. And let's start with the first one. What do I do with the information I get? Well, in order for us to understand how any of this is going to be valuable, let me fast forward a little bit and share with you one of the things that I would suggest that you try that will give you much more personal, accurate, relevant, valuable interactions. You're going to want to start a project inside the tool of your choice. You're going to want to start a project chatgpt, claude. And a project is a specialized place inside the software where you can do work focused on something specific, give it instructions, give it resources, give it guidance, and inside the project itself, it will build upon the history with its project specific memory. But you can hyper focus it to a point where you can be really specific. So when you ask me what am I going to do with the information you're giving me, what we are going to do is literally create an About Me file. We're going to create a file, a document that's going to be called About Me, okay? And that document is going to live in that project and that project is going to have instructions. And part of the instructions is going to be before you answer or produce any responses, I want you to fully review the About Me document so that the work you give me is as valuable and as meaningful to me as possible. Okay? So that's the answer to the first question, which is what am I going to do right with what you give me? The second thing is you want to review and find out what the truth is, what the misconceptions are and what's missing. Okay? And here's what I mean by that you are going to get. If you're like me, you've used ChatGPT or Claude or tools like it for your own work, but you've probably also ventured off and done some other stuff. Okay? So not everything, if you're like most people, not everything that you put into ChatGPT is absolutely relevant or meaningful or includes pieces of your life. But however, the tool is not going to be able to decipher that out of the gate. So you're going to find things that aren't true about you, perhaps. And you're going to see things that are partially true, perhaps you. And you're going to see holes. So for instance, when you say, what do you know about me personally? It may come back and share what you do for a living, or your relationships or your interests, right? But there may be some interests in there that aren't you because you've shared something or done something with the tool before that included something that looked like it was interesting, but maybe you were doing it for somebody else, or maybe you were working for another client, or maybe you were looking into a story and it assumed that because you were looking into it, using it and it was part of your dialogue with, with the tool that it was used. So it's going to remember things that maybe need to be just adjusted and, and maybe need to be corrected or maybe need to be enhanced. Right? But it's going to be eye opening nonetheless. Now, if you're just starting out, you don't have the luxury of having that history, right? So you can't say, what do you know about me? Because it doesn't know much. So you're really starting from a different point of view. Now for you, you're going to want to say, I am going to create a project, and in that project I want to have an About Me document. Now, the purpose of this document is so that you can understand the true me personally and professionally, so that our work together can be as relevant and as valuable and as meaningful as possible. I want you to interview me so that you can help me create that document. So I want you to be in the interest of ChatGPT or Claude, right? I want you to be interviewing me in a way that's going to get the most relevant information so that when I create this doc, it's going to allow you to do your best work. Now, do you have any questions for me? What I just practiced, by the way, in that example was the framework that I share with listeners and folks that I work with that I would, I would suggest that you use. Highly encourage is what I was trying to find there that you use every time. And the four pieces of that is, what are we doing? Why are we doing it? What does success look like? And do you have any questions? So I shared with it right there. What am I doing? Well, I'm going to build a project and I need an About Me file. Why are we doing it? Because I want the work that we do together in the future to be as relevant and as meaningful and as valuable. To me as possible. Okay, what does success look like? I just said I'm going to build a document and I'm going to give that document to the project. But I want you to interview me so that you can get the information that you'll need to do your best work. So I want you to ask me about my personal and my professional life so that you have the details in that document that will allow me to succeed in the goal that I've shared with you. Do you have any questions for me before we start? Now, if you're just starting out, that is the best way to start building the foundation. This about me document. Okay? And if you've been using the tool for a while, let's go and run that exercise, which is tell me what you know about me personally, professionally. Take a look at what you have, and then you decide whether or not you need to have ChatGPT or Claude or the tool of your choice interview you or if you just need to tell it to fill in the gaps. Okay, so here's. Here's an example that I did when I ran this a while back. I do a lot of client work, and so the details. For instance, somebody was writing a book. I was working with a client who's writing a book, and when I ran the tell me what you know about me personally, professionally, it said, you're writing a book about this, And I had to tell it, no, I'm not. That was actually a client work, and so I had to share with it. So you can do a number of ways. You can literally take the advice or not the advice. You take the feedback that it gives you, copy it and paste it into a document, and then edit out the things that are wrong, and then give it back to the tool and say, this is my about me document. This is the details that I want you to know. Or you can have it ask you questions back and forth based on the output that it's given you. Right. But either way, it's important that you review and ask personally and professionally the information that it knows so you can get it right. Okay? And again, if you're just starting out, have it interview you. Okay. So it's up to you. This is where someone usually asks me, how detailed do I get? What's really up to you? What details are important for you to do? The work that would be considered meaningful and valuable Right to you. And so getting comfortable with what you want to share as part of this exercise, it's really, what do you feel? What do you need? For me I said, I'm going to give you everything I can. So I went into my kids and their ages and what they're interested in and some of the things that I'm good at. And by the way, another prompt that I've used in the past, if you've used the tool a lot. Okay. And again, if you're just starting out, you're not going to be able to do some of these things. But keep it in the back of your mind, because later on you're going to. I asked it. Tell me what my five biggest shortcomings are. Okay. What do you notice about Me that are my five biggest shortcomings? And it will tell you with candidness that might surprise you some of the things that it notices about you. Now, if you want to work that into your About Me file, that's really up to you. Right? Again, this is your file. But the goal is to go back to my founding principle of AI Being the amazing intern. And the intern can only do the job that it knows what to do, meaning it needs the context, it needs the details, it needs the direction from you to do its best work. Okay, so let's pause here for a second. The About Me file is literally a document. You'll call it About Me. And if you create a new project inside your tool, you can add the About Me to the project. And then in the instructions, you're going to tell it, I have a file in your resource library called About Me. That's the details that I want you to know about me personally and professionally and every time we work together. And again, this is going to be a project. So inside this project, okay, this is not a new conversation. This is a project. And a project means it has a very focused job and a very focused set of instructions and resources that come with it. And this will allow you to have a Me project. Right? This is the project that will know you, so you share with it. Before you do any work or give me any responses. I want you to fully review the About Me file so that the information you give me is as relevant and meaningful as valuable to me possible. So it's time to start thinking about more than prompts and more than what tools can I use and really get into knowing you. Okay. And having the ability for you to use that information to your advantage moving forward. Okay, so let's go back to the very beginning, to the very story that I shared with you. How different do you think it would be if my friend had gone through the About Me process and had a project and then had asked the questions of the accessories for his work, the output would have been so meaningful, individualistic, relevant, that it would have been much, much more valuable to him. And that's the power of this. Whether you're writing or whether you're asking for advice or whether you're comparing. Everything in life is about context, isn't it? Everything has to be relevant to something that matters to you. And this is one way that you can give a project the guidance so that you can feel like it's really thinking and working on your behalf. The About Me file. Give it a shot and let me know how it goes. I would certainly appreciate hearing how this layer of personal attention inside the tool that you're using works for you. And if you have any suggestions or advice for others because you've gone through this experience yourself, please let me know. I'm more than happy to share. I'd love to share. That's what this is all about. Chatgptexperiment.com is the website. The archives of the episodes are there, and that's how you can get a hold of me. So give the About Me file some love, give it some work and see how it pans out and let me know how it goes. Okay? Well, I hope you found that valuable. And as always, the most important element to you getting the most out of the tool of your choice is your own curiosity. So I appreciate you joining me. And until we talk again, do stay curious. Okay, Bye. Bye.