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The ChatGPT Experiment - Simplifying Chat GPT For Curious Beginners
Ep 67- You're Not Alone: How Others Are Really Using ChatGPT
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Episode Summary: In this solo episode of the ChatGPT Experiment podcast, host Cary Weston reflects on the feedback he's been receiving from listeners. He shares common themes around how people are using ChatGPT, what they’re struggling with, and how...
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Then full price plan options available. Taxes and fees ext terms@mintmobile.com if you're feeling overwhelmed, you're not alone. If you feel like you need to be more organized, you're not alone. If you feel like you don't know how to use this yet, you're not alone. Okay? There are tools, there are people, there are ways in which you can find value. And it really is a gift. If we can afford ourselves another hour a day, five hours a week, whatever it might be, it's there for you. Hey there. Welcome to the the ChatGPT experiment, the podcast designed to help curious folks better understand just what the heck this chatgpt thing is all about and find some simple, practical ways to use it to add value to your daily life, personally or professionally. Right? My name is Kerry Weston. I'm your host. So glad you're here. First timers welcome repeats. Welcome back. What a week. Just want to check in with you today. Something a little different. I'm going to give you some feedback. The last few episodes in particular have really resonated with some folks. I'm getting some good feedback, some good emails. I want to share with you what people are saying. I always talk about the community, joining the community, participating in the experiment, sharing. So that's what I want to do today is share some things that I'm hearing because I want folks that are listening to understand the collective mindset the collective things that people are either worried about, looking to do, gaining, solving. I want you just, I want you to feel normal if you're in the space, if you're thinking about the things I'm going to share, I just want you to feel normal. And I also want to say thanks for the feedback and I think the more that I can help you understand where others are at, it'll help you feel either A a little less intimidating about using it and gaining ChatGPT's benefit for your own needs and B or 2, whatever I started out just help you understand what normal looks like. I think that sometimes we feel like we're either behind or the only person thinking this or the only person struggling with this or what are other people doing. And so yeah, today I'm going to share what people are saying to me, feeding me for information, giving me for comments so you can get a collective feel for what people are saying and doing, benefiting, using all that kind of stuff. Got a story for you. If you're a listener, you may remember I had the privilege last week of going away on a family vacation. First time to Aruba and great time, great time. How can you go wrong with crystal clear water and 85 degree, 85 degree weather, right? Little breeze, shade and a breeze, really all I need and had a lot of fun there. Really excellent time to the island and if anyone's looking to go, by the way, I've got all kinds of tips. I got to put together an article on what I saw because I did a lot of research myself. Some of it including ChatGPT, some of it with other podcasts. And until you experience it from your own perspective, it's hard to bring some of those details to light to understand what they mean. So as a side note, I'm going to get it all out of my head to help others that may be going to kind of understand what they're going to see, feel, do and how to get through it. All right, let's get to this here. Also got some good announcements, got some things coming up I want to share with you I'm excited about again in the spirit of community, continuing the community, building the community, giving to you all the stuff that I'm learning and sharing and hearing from you in the interest of just making people feel more comfortable and approachable in how to use this thing. Because it really is a gift. The more I use it, the more people I talk to, the more I'm really understanding how this is changing daily and weekly habits and giving people More time and think about this for a second. If you could gain back an hour a day, five hours a week of your busy, multitasking, attention grabbing week, that's pretty valuable. It's pretty valuable. And that's really what this is doing for others. So excited to share with you what people are saying and doing and feeling and letting me know about. But first I want to share. Let's start here, the free guide, the beginner's guide, the Five Practical Tips Guide on ChatGPT. Experiment.com has a question when you download it and it says, what's your goal? What are you looking to do? Right? And people share a lot of things in there and sometimes it's a sentence and sometimes it's a paragraph or two. But in general I'm noticing a lot of themes and those themes are around feeling overwhelmed, wanting to get organized, looking for planning help or an assistant. You know, when we started this thing a couple years ago, really people looked at ChatGPT as a writing tool. How do I get a limerick? How do I get an article? Social media, how do I just create things right? And emotionally that perspective has changed, at least through what I'm seeing and hearing and what you're sharing with me, literally what you are sharing with me, that people are feeling overwhelmed, wanting to get organized, looking for planning help, looking for an assistant. And if we can find ways to do that, it's of interest to a lot of people, myself included. So if that's something that resonates with you, if the need to get more organized and feel more in control and maybe have a little bit more efficiency resonates with you, I want to share with you. You're not alone. Like I have email after email after email of people telling me the exact same thing. And that's where I'm going to put a little bit of my energy in the future weeks here is to help guide you there and what I'm learning and what I'm hearing. Okay, so you're asking the right questions. If you are looking at ChatGPT as a tool to help you do that, you're in the right place. Because I am personally finding terrific benefit and I know others are too. And the more that I can guide you to get a piece of that benefit, I think the better off mentally we're going to be because we're all battling something. We're all juggling, right? I've shared with you before. I've got my business, my wife has a business, I've got two teenagers, one in high school, one is in eighth grade. I've got track team practices, I've got baseball this time of year, baseball practices. We've got homework to juggle, we've got things to do, places to be. The weekends are not our own. It's a busy, busy time on top of having client work and deadlines. And if you were to see my schedule, you know, there's four colors on my schedule because I have a personal calendar, I have a sports calendar, I have a family calendar. We have all of these things. And it's just sometimes it feels like we're drinking from a fire hose. Right? And the ability to gain some sort of control, some sort of illusion of control, to feel organized and prepared and dare I even say, proactive on any of this is a welcome thought. That's really where I've spent my time over the last month or so with this is seeing how can I do that. And I'm getting terrific benefits. The past two episodes I've been talking about my second brain experiment and the two way to do list and I just want to check in once again. That that is evolving nicely. I just did a check in this morning and the ability of having somebody ask me questions and challenge me. So one of the things I did in Aruba while I was away is I have, as I shared with you, I have my weekly check in where I have a standing agenda. And what I've done is I've created the standing agenda that says every time we check in, these are the standing topics. These are the evergreen topics. We're going to go through this. But along the way, because the memory has expanded to such great lengths now, the capability of Chat GP's memory has expanded to such great links. What I'm able to do now is with my phone, I remember I got an email while I'm away and I just made a note, hey, on my next check in, remind me about this or remember to ask me about this, whatever it might be. I throw it into memory and it says got it. I'll bring that up. And I probably did that five or six times. Remember to check in with so and so or I want to read this article or I need to get back to so and so or here's an idea that I want to run by whatever and I'll just tell chat, hey, listen, just bring this out, add it to my list and we'll bring it up at the next session. And when I ran that this morning to my I want to say surprise, right? Because when things work, it does surprise me sometimes because you. You figure that something's got to break, and when it comes up and it says, hey, you asked me to remind you about these three things. And there it is right in front of me, I said, that's great, that's great, let's go. And then the other thing I did today is I have two emails that I do on a weekly basis. One goes out to ChatGPT folks who have downloaded the guide or asked to be on the list. And so I put my thoughts together today for that. And I have a practical marketing show podcast, and I do an email out to clients and folks that have signed up for that list. Two different audiences, two different purposes, But I use ChatGPT on a regular basis for both. And so I need ideas for the emails on a weekly basis. And so what I did today was I said, let's put together an email for the ChatGPT crew. What have I been talking about? What have I been hearing? What have I been using? What do you think would be a good topic? And it gave me the three or four things that I used this week in ChatGPT. And I said, do you think your audience would be interested in these things? I said, yeah, I picked one. I said, great. And so I'm actually sending the email out today based on that conversation. And because I use the memory like I do, and because I'm talking to it on a regular basis, it said, you know, here's something that's come up a few times. Do you think this would be a good topic? And here's some of the things you've mentioned, and here's a quick outline and do you want to edit it? And we went through the whole process, and I was able to put together a really quick email today. When I say quick, you know, it took me start to finish, 10 minutes to brainstorm, ideate, get the outline, get a draft, edit, and be ready to go, right? I use Mailchimp. So I got it into Mailchimp within 10 minutes, right? And so from zero to publish in 10 minutes, I was able to work with my assistant, which the chatgpt here, and say, what have I been talking about? What have topics that are coming up? What are people sharing with me? What do you think would be a good content base to send out? And then we did it, right? We did it together. And that's just a quick thing that I'm sharing with you, that because I'm going back and forth with it so much, I'm actually able to pull out of it, things like that. What Am I talking about? What am I thinking? What do you think would be good? And so it's a good reflection tool. Here's another way. I used ChatGPT this week, deep Research. I don't know if you've. I talked about this a few episodes back, but Deep Research is an amazing feature now in the paid version of ChatGPT. And as you're creating a new conversation, if you look to the bottom of your text field where you're going to type and talk to it, you'll see a button. If you're on your phone, I think it looks like a telescope, but if you're on your computer, it does say Deep Research. If you click that, you're going into Deep Research mode. And, you know, I don't know if you do this, but my wife and I, towards the end of the vacation that we're on, we start thinking and planning about the next one, right? Because you're in that kind of mod. And so, you know, we brainstormed. What do we like about where we're at? Both, you know, geographically, but actually the place that we're at too, right? The physical facility. What do we like? What didn't we like? What do we want? What hit expectations, maybe? What do we want to do differently, that kind of thing. And I used ChatGPT's deep research, and I said, I want you to do some homework for me. I want you to go find five places that we should consider vacationing to, traveling to next time, and I want to give you feedback on where we're at now, what we're doing, what we've done, what we've seen, what we've liked, what we would have liked to have differently, these kind of things. A wish list, right? Pros and cons wish list. And then this is the important part, whether you're using Deep Research or not. For me, this sentence has been really, really helpful in getting a lot out of ChatGPT. So I gave it all of the criteria, the things that we wanted, liked and didn't like and wish we had. And, you know that wish list kind of thing, right? And I said, before you go and research these things, before you come back and bring me five recommendations, ask me any questions. Do you have any questions that would help you understand the goal better? And this is the kicker. So you can do your best work. And again, whether you're using Deep Research or regular, when you say, before you ask it to do anything, or if you're giving it background or you're setting up the conditions, if you Say, please ask me any questions so you can better understand what I need, so you can do your best work. I found that there to be a very effective sentence and it did. It asked me a few questions. And by the way, I'll just. I wasn't going to do this, but I will. I'd never thought about it, but I will. On this episode on chatgpt experiment.com, what I'll do is I'll actually copy and paste the entire conversation of what I just shared with you. The initial prompt, that brain dump, the questions that it asked me, the clarification, and then the output in Deep Research. So you can just kind of see what I'm talking about here. And you'll see in that flow where I said, before you do this, ask me any questions. And it came back and you'll see the five questions that it asked me and it was great. And I've shared with you before, Deep Research is not an instant gratification tool. And by not instant, I mean it took 10 to 15 minutes for ChatGPT to go out and execute the request, the homework, the goal that I had for it. And it's doing it takes that long because it's doing work. It's actually looking at external sources and it's referencing those external sources. And what's really great is when it brings you back the answer, the product that you asked it for, whatever it is that you asked it to do, it gives you those. It both cites the sources in the report, if you will, or in the commentary that it gives you. But then it also gives you at the end a list of sources so you can trust. But verify, which I think is great. The ability for us to not trust that everything that comes from ChatGPT is right. I've showed you that before. It's trained not to say I don't know. So it's always going to give you an answer. And as you know, we've seen, it's getting much better. But it gives you answers that are made up. Sometimes with Deep Research, when you're getting into this mode of asking it to do something, it's going out and it's bringing back actual cited sources and then actually gives you the sources that you can go and verify the information, which is great. And again, I'll put that prompt, I'll put that prompt on the website and the output so you can kind of see what I have to do, where it went and how the information came back. So it gave me five places, both physical locations. So a country or destination and the actual resort, the hotel. Right. It came back and said check this out. Give me the pros and cons based on my request. Gave it to me in long form, gave me to in a table form, gave me all the sources. Really great. So looking forward to going through that. So that's how I kind of used it from a personal point of view this week. Professionally, I told you, kind of feeding it as I go. Remember to ask me about this and remind me about this and then personally used it for deep research. So a couple things. Hopefully I'm getting your idea treadmill spinning here as we go forward. I want to give you ways in which other people, myself included, are using it and you can see how you can apply it to your own life. I'll tell you last week I shared with you I do one on one training sessions and you can find out more about that@chatgptexperiment.com had I had eight folks last week reach out to me to sign up for sessions and again, in the interest of sharing with you why people are looking to have the conversation, what they're thinking about and how they're using ChatGPT. Let me just run quick through this list here to share with you why people are looking to have some one on one conversations. Greg out in Ohio wants to learn how to use ChatGPT for faster investment research and analysis. Thought that was cool. Sally's out in Utah, wants to organize client notes, pull patterns and create more content ideas from the counseling work that she's doing. Alan's out in Arizona. Alan wants to refine YouTube and social media marketing, improve sales automation and use ChatGPT for endurance coaching, which is cool. Fariba is out in California and Fariba wants to streamline business processes and update and rewrite her book. Their book is 10 years old. It's time for an update. So I thought that was cool. Looking forward to that conversation. Kevin in Canada, up in Ontario, wants to scale the creation of STEM educational programming using custom GPTs. That'll be a cool conversation. Greg's down in Massachusetts, wants to automate LinkedIn posts and sharpen pitch and presentation reviews to help speed up RFPs. Mark's here in Maine and Mark's looking to create and proof technical documents and solve some complex engineering calculations. And Courtney is out in Iowa. Actually had a conversation with Courtney yesterday and she was looking to improve teaching materials, speed up grading and learn better chatgpt prompting. So I had a great conversation with Courtney and she gave me some feedback and a review. Appreciate that Courtney Very, very much. But these are the reasons. I mean, it couldn't be any more different, to be honest with you, for the reasons that people want to talk on a one, on one session. But you can see just by listening to the list that there are specific ways in which people are looking to apply ChatGPT. And I think that's what I really want to hone down on today is we don't need to learn ChatGPT, we don't need another thing to learn. But if we can find something, if we can find something in our world, something in our day, something that we can make faster or easier or more efficient, less work, less friction, then it's worth looking into. And that's why I share this. Because oftentimes people say, I'm not even sure why I would want to use this, like, what would I use it for? And you can clearly see just in those eight examples that there are very specific things that people are looking to be better at, be sure, be more efficient at, right? They've identified something in their week, something in their day that they're hoping to learn how to do better, faster, and have that objective point of view. And so I come back to the three Evergreen points that I'll reinforce with you today. Whether it's as complex as STEM educational programming or whether it's just, look, I just want to learn how to write better or I want to schedule my day. You know, there's three points that I always come back to, and these are the three. Number one is it goes against the grain. I understand that, but I promise you, if you do this, you're going to get much better outputs, and that's talk to it like a human. Like, have a conversation with ChatGPT. Don't think of it as prompts, don't think of it as computer programming. Don't think of it as having to use a tool, literally talk to it like a human. The more conversational, the better. Okay? And that's because you're talking to point number two. When AI is, you're talking to an amazing Internet. Okay? So I get rid of artificial intelligence as the AI acronym and I talk about the amazing intern. And if you give your intern, if you give your assistant proper background, proper information, what are we doing? Why are we doing it? What does success look like? What am I looking for? What am I not looking for? The more you give it, the better you're going to get, right? The more you give it, the better you're going to get. Talk to it like a human. And Narrow the band. That's my third tip for doesn't matter what you are using or looking to use. ChatGPT4 narrow the band. Which means out of the gate. ChatGPT knows so much. It knows how to fix a radiator, it knows how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. It knows how to help you make a tree house, how to plumb, how to can, how to learn English, Spanish, whatever. So think of how busy our days get and all of the things that go through our head that distract us from being focused in the moment. And with ChatGPT, you can tell it you are this. I only want you to focus on this. This is the goal. This is all I want you to worry about right now. And that's what I call narrowing the band. It eliminates all the noise, circus, music, distractions, all the unnecessary knowledge that it has. And the more that you can tell it to focus, to be something, to resonate with something, to act as something, the better the outcome is going to be. So narrow the band, talk to it like a human. And remember, you're talking to an amazing intern. And the more clarity, the more details that you can give that intern, the better you're going to get, no matter how simple or technical your request is going to be. A couple things housekeeping here I want to share with you. I'm excited to kind of lay out two things are coming. Number one, I'm building a ChatGPT Curiosity Club coming soon. And that's going to be a place where you can log in, get resources, your dime. Okay? Videos, sessions, tools, whatnot. We're going to have a week monthly, a monthly webinar, check in for folks that are members of the Curiosity Club, where we'll just have an open session, we'll have office hours, but it's my goal to build a library of things that I've talked about repeatedly that I know. Provide value that will help you address certain things in your personal, professional life. Quick tips, tools, videos, that kind of thing. Building community. So extending the community. The Curiosity Club is coming soon. Just want to tell you that it's coming. Keep on the lookout for that. And I've got a new guide in the works I've shared with you@the chatgpt experiment.com over and over again that there's a free five things I want to share for beginners and that comes with bonuses, by the way. There's all kinds of additional bonuses once you download that. I put some prompts in there, some tools, and some things that I think you'll find value. But I've also got a new guide. I'm in the works, a new guide based on what I've been learning here in the past month. Okay. And what you've been sharing and what people are telling me. The new guide I'm putting together is called From Overwhelmed to Organize. It's going to be a simple ChatGPT playbook for busy professionals. How to use ChatGPT to plan smarter, stress less and take control of your week. So I'm in the process of putting that together now. And what I'm doing is I'm borrowing from the lessons that I've shared, the conversations that I've had, what's resonating with people, the second brain two way to do list topic that I'm talking about. I'm going to wrap that into an easy guide so I can share what I've learned and give you ways of firing it up yourself. Okay. So again, the Curiosity Club and the new guide coming soon. Keep a look at it. Chatgpt experiment.com if you download the guide, you'll get on the news list or the email list anyway and I'll keep everybody informed that way as well. So a lot of stuff out of my head today, a lot of it came from you. And I really do appreciate when you share, give me feedback on what you're able to do, give me notes here. Jim wrote that he wants to talk. He's buying a boat dealership for the first time. This is new for them, a service and sales boat dealership and is learning a few things about ChatGPT in that regard and thought that'd be a good story to share with you all, with the community. So reached out to Jim said thank you. Let's love to learn more and perhaps Jim will be on the show and we can kind of share his story from a new business venture point of view. What he's done, what he's doing, what he's learning so he can pass that on to you. But I'm grateful for the feedback, I'm grateful for the participation. I'm grateful for the things you share and if I can help in any way, please let me know. The one on one training session is at chatgptexperiment.com Group sessions available as well. If you've got an organization or a business or an event and you think this would be a powerful topic, a helpful topic, a valuable topic, reach out can help you out. I got a few of those coming up as well. A couple in person, a couple on zoom. And just, I think the, the bottom theme as we leave here is the greater the community, the greater the strength of the community. The greater we share and support each other, the more we're going to be more comfortable moving forward. Make an approachable tool here. Right. It comes back to the very beginning of what I opened up with you all, which is if you're feeling these things, if you're feeling overwhelmed, you're not alone. If you feel like you need to be more organized, you're not alone. If you feel like you don't know how to use this yet, you're not alone. Okay? There are tools, there are people, there are ways in which you can find value. And it really is a gift. If we can buy ourselves or afford ourselves another hour a day, five hours a week, whatever it might be, it's there for you. Okay? So talk to it, narrow the band, communicate to that intern. Let me know if you need any help. Reach out to me@chatgptexperiment.com. hope this feedback was helpful. Hope I got your idea. Treadmill spinning a little bit. And until next time, do stay curious because your curiosity is the most important component to you being successful with this thing. However you define success. Okay, we'll talk soon. Bye.
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