Most beginners die from indigestion, not starvation.
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Why Mastering ChatGPT is the New Competitive Edge
AI isn’t going away. It’s moving fast, reshaping entire industries, and if you’re not learning how to leverage it, you’re already behind.
The truth is, it’s not about becoming a programmer or spending years learning how AI works under the hood. It’s about applying it to your business, your systems, and your life in ways that buy back your time and multiply your results.
If you want to go from beginner to pro, here’s the roadmap.
1. Pick Your AI Toolkit
Too many founders waste energy chasing shiny new tools instead of getting results. Start by auditing your daily task list and identifying where AI can replace low-value, repetitive work.
List everything that drains your time or energy.
Group activities by category (copywriting, scheduling, email, ideation).
Choose two AI tools for one of those categories. Test them both, then commit to the one that feels most natural.
Stick with it for at least 7 days in a row, applying it consistently until you see results.
Instead of going a mile wide and an inch deep, go a mile deep and learn these tools.
2. Learn to Prompt Like a Pro
Asking ChatGPT about the weather isn’t using AI. You need to learn how to structure prompts that deliver high-value output.
Here’s a four-step framework to follow:
Role – Tell it who to act like (investor, coach, lawyer).
Context – Provide the data, background, or situation it needs.
Command – Be specific about what you want it to do.
Format – Decide how you want the output (list, spreadsheet, draft, code).
Pro tip: Once you land on a great output, ask ChatGPT to rewrite the exact prompt that would have gotten you there faster. That’s how you accelerate your learning curve.
You essentially need to become a prompt engineer, but I’ll show you how to get the same results without spending years trying to become one.
3. Create Your AI Learning Rhythm
Schools won’t teach you this. You need to build your own system for continuous AI learning.
Daily: Curate your social feeds. Search niche AI content, comment “FYP” so the algorithm feeds you the right content.
Weekly: Host or join a mastermind with other AI-focused founders. Learn by osmosis from people experimenting on the frontier.
Monthly: Run a tool audit. Revisit your task list and see which new tools can replace more of your work.
Quarterly: Attend AI-driven events in your industry. Surround yourself with peers, vendors, and advisors who are solving the same problems.
Once you stop learning, you start dying.
4. Become a Director, Not a Doer
AI isn’t here to replace you, but it will replace the way you work. Founders who stay valuable are the ones who shift from doing tasks to directing outcomes.
Here are the skills to develop:
Vision – Anticipate a future that doesn’t exist yet.
Taste – Recognize what “great” looks like by studying world-class examples.
Care – Show EQ that AI can’t replicate in leadership and relationships.
Simplification – Take complexity and turn it into a simple, actionable plan.
Self-reflection – Seek feedback to ensure AI is giving you leverage, not just more noise.
You don’t want to default to labor. You want to look for leverage.
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The founders who win aren’t the ones who wait for clarity. They’re the ones who take the roadmap, test, iterate, and keep building momentum.
Start small, go deep, and keep learning. AI is moving fast, but if you play this game right, you’ll stay ahead of 99% of the competition.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I go from ChatGPT beginner to pro in 2025?
To go from ChatGPT beginner to pro in 2025, the key is focus and practice. Instead of chasing every new AI tool, audit your daily tasks, pick one or two AI tools to handle a specific job such as writing emails or creating content, and commit to using them for seven days straight. This deep practice, combined with habit stacking prompts into your daily routine, helps you build real ChatGPT skills faster than trying every new feature.
What is the best ChatGPT prompt structure for accurate results?
The best ChatGPT prompt structure for accurate results uses a four-part framework: Role, Context, Command, and Format. When you give ChatGPT a role to act as, provide clear context with supporting data, state the exact command for what you want, and request a specific format such as a list, table, or PDF outline, you get much more reliable results. This structured approach ensures ChatGPT understands both the purpose and the style of your request.
What daily and weekly habits help me master ChatGPT faster?
Daily and weekly habits help you master ChatGPT faster because AI skills improve with consistency. Each day, train your feed with AI related content and practice short prompting sessions. Each week, join a mastermind with peers to share prompts and strategies. A monthly tool audit ensures you replace outdated AI apps, and quarterly events expose you to industry leading ChatGPT practices. This rhythm helps you stay competitive in 2025.
How do I make ChatGPT output match my writing style, tone and standards?
To make ChatGPT output match your writing style and standards, you need to provide clear reference examples and enforce them in prompts. Copy and paste three samples of your preferred tone, ask ChatGPT to extract style guidelines, and then apply those guidelines to every draft. By consistently referencing your own voice, ChatGPT adapts and produces content that feels authentic and on brand.
Will AI replace my job or how do I stay valuable using ChatGPT?
AI will not replace your job if you focus on what ChatGPT cannot do, such as vision, taste, and care. ChatGPT is excellent at executing repetitive tasks, but your role is to direct, simplify complex ideas, and ensure quality. By automating busywork with ChatGPT and investing your time in leadership and creative judgment, you make yourself irreplaceable in the AI era.
More Resources
Tools Mentioned
ChatGPT – AI platform for conversation, structured prompts, and task automation.
TikTok – Can be trained to show AI tutorials and examples by using FYP comments on relevant content.
Zoom – Platform to host weekly masterminds and share ChatGPT strategies with peers.
Instagram – Used to follow AI creators and access prompt templates through DMs.
Full Transcript
How to Go From ChatGPT Beginner to Pro in 2025 – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEYJCRkAZ2Q
Transcript:
(00:00) I’ve been programming since I was 17, and even I feel the pressure to keep up with AI. New tools drop daily. Everyone’s an expert, and the more you search for answers, the harder it gets to move forward. But after diving deep, learning everything I could about AI, building my own AI companies, I’ve realized something.
(00:19) The real problem isn’t that AI is hard to learn. It’s that you’re stuck in the noise. So today I’m going to break down a simple four- stage road map to go from AI beginner to AI pro even if you have zero technical background. Stage one, choose your AI toolkit. I’ve got a friend. He’s a freaking genius. His name is Chris.
(00:38) He literally goes chasing AI tool, knows them all, tells you how they all work. But when you look at his life, he’s the same Chris I met 10 years ago. And the reason why is he keeps resetting. See, most people get into this squirrel mentality of collecting information about AI. What’s more important is that you apply it and actually get a result from it.
(01:01) Most people have too many options. They think they don’t have enough. So, they’re worried that they’re going to fail by not saying yes to everything. I’m telling you, it’s the saying no to all the options and picking one and going hard in the paint. Instead of going a mile wide and an inch deep, go a mile deep and learn these tools.
(01:16) See, most beginners die from indigestion, not starvation. So, here’s how to pick your toolkit. First off, we have to audit your task list. We got to look at all the things that you’re doing every day that’s just sucking up your time that’s draining your energy that AI was specifically designed to help you overcome.
(01:35) Make that list and start looking for groups of activities that you can use AI to do for you. Next, you have to think about what is a bucket of things that you’re working on that AI could help you with and pick two tools for that specific task. If it’s copywriting, if it’s answering phone calls, if it’s writing emails, if it’s coming up with ideas, and you think there’s no way that AI can do it, trust me, it can.
(01:56) The reason we want two tools is so that we can figure out which one’s going to best accomplish it for the way we like. See, a lot of people don’t like AI cuz it doesn’t feel like the way I do it. Okay, guess what? Two tools, two different outcomes. Pick the one that feels most organic to you and run with it.
(02:12) Next, we want to commit to seven days in a row of doing the work, picking that one tool and applying it to that task until we figure it out. And I get it. You might overwhelm yourself. You might get frustrated. It may not initially do it exactly the way you want, but just play with it. The cool thing about AI, it gets better and better every freaking week.
(02:32) Finally, make it a habit. I call this habit stacking. See, most people have a hard time adding something new to their life because they don’t force themselves to wake up and stack that against another habit. So the way I do it is I find something that today I do no matter what. And then I add to that new behavior so that I stack it against something else.
(02:51) So I like to read every day in the morning. So when I really wanted to plug in this AI world of mine, I added prompting AI after I read in the same chair three prompts every day for months. Now my default is to go to AI. I’ve already used it 26 times today and it’s the first thing in the morning. Now that you’ve chosen which tool to use, it’s time to get really freaking good at how to use them.
(03:13) I call this prompt like a pro. The other day I was hanging out with my buddy and he’s like, I use AI. Look at this. Hey AI, tell me what the weather’s going to look like tomorrow. Isn’t that cool? I’m like, bro, do not think asking it to tell you what the weather is tomorrow is using AI. It can do way more.
(03:31) For example, I sit on a board. incredible company. I was busy with a lot of other projects. I got the board packed. This is all the information, the financial analysis, the update from the CEO, any other notes from anybody else on those executive teams. And I didn’t have a chance to look it over. So, what did I do? I took all that information and I plugged it into my own private AI cuz it’s private and it’s secure and it’s safe.
(03:51) And then I asked it, hey, act as an investor and tell me what are the five questions I should be asking the CEO based on this information. The call started, everybody starts asking questions, and then finally I get my turn. The first questions got the CEO looking at me like, “How did you know that?” That information around gross margin was on page 27 of the financial plan and I didn’t even know it and you asked me about it.
(04:15) The truth is, I don’t like to work hard. I like to work smart, and AI makes me wildly smart. You essentially need to become a prompt engineer, but I’ll show you how to get the same results without spending years trying to become one. So, this is my four-step prompting process to go from AI beginner to AI pro. The first one is the role. You have to tell it act like it.
(04:34) I literally get really fun with these. I tell it to act like the most eccentric version of the person because what that does is it allows the AI to look at all the information it has and discount or add things that it knows only that kind of person would be interested in. Next, we want to give it the context.
(04:51) I like using AI to help me with financial planning. So, what did I give it? I gave it everything. I gave it my bank statements. I gave it all of my past investments. I gave it all the legal documents. Then I ask it questions like based on my age and my goals, what do you think I should consider adjusting? These are things that people pay some other person to do for them that AI can not only do it better faster without the freaking attitude.
(05:17) Next, we want to give it the command. Essentially, we want to tell it what we want. So if you want it, for example, to draft a legal document, you have to give it the command for what it’s trying to accomplish based on what you gave it. Next, we want to give it the format. And this for me, I think a lot of people misunderstand how powerful this is.
(05:34) Format, yes, is a list, but format’s also a spreadsheet, a PDF, a JSON output for the nerds in the audience. You can literally ask it to write the code for your next idea and watch it spit back code. Now, this is a cheat code of cheat codes. At the end, once you’ve talked to AI and you’ve given all the prompt engineering, you gotten to an answer you like, here’s a really great way to get there faster, ask it to write the prompt that would have got you to that result faster and it will give it to you.
(06:02) And then all of a sudden, now you’re learning how to talk to AI in a more productive manner. Which, by the way, if you’re a business owner and you want my stepbystep prompting format for all areas of your business, just go find me on Instagram. It’s Dan Martell to Elsa Martell and follow me. then message me the word YouTube prompt and I will send it directly to you.
(06:22) So now you know which tools and how to use them. But with how fast everything’s changing, you have to create your own learning rhythm. Schools don’t teach kids AI. If anything, they get in massive trouble if they even consider using it. Now, I get it. Some teachers are like, “Yeah, but you don’t understand.
(06:38) If you let them use it, they’re never going to learn anything.” I completely disagree. I have been teaching my kids AI from the moment it was released. They use it every day for their creative projects. And what I’m supposed to pretend like the future doesn’t have AI in it. That’s like when before we had the internet, if people wanted to learn something, they had to like walk to the library to get a book and find the right book.
(06:58) They had the answer to their question. And then the internet came along and all of a sudden it got brought to us. AI is the exact same thing. And you’re telling me we shouldn’t let people use the internet and instead force them to walk to the library to learn? Not something I can support.
(07:13) Because once you stop learning, you start dying. This is the AI learning rhythm that’s going to turn you into a pro. First, it comes down to daily consumption. I’m a big fan of using my feed to feed my mind. So, I want to make sure that wherever I put my time and attention, it’s feeding me the things that I want to get better. So, here’s how I do it.
(07:31) I open up my phone and I go to Tik Tok and I search for AI construction or whatever your field is and then I give it a FYP in the comments of the videos that it shows me. So, it tells the algorithm to change my algorithm to only show me things that is relevant to what I’m doing. Whatever your role is, you literally do that. And now, when you go on TikTok, you will have a feed that’s going to teach you how to become an AI pro.
(07:54) Next, you want to create your weekly mastermind. I’m a big fan of learning through osmosis. So, what I did months ago is I decided to do a weekly mastermind with people I saw online creating content. And it’s very simple. They don’t even know me. I reach out to them. them. I ask them if they want to come have lunch on Zoom and we just talk.
(08:13) One of my favorite questions to ask them right now is what do you think they’re going to release in the next frontier model. Talking to people that are doing it at the frontier that you find on social media using the first step is how you stay competitive. Next, we want to do a monthly tool audit. Go back to step one and go back to all the tasks that you’re working on and specifically the things that suck your energy that you really don’t want to do and ask yourself, can AI today replace that work? See what you can do today changes every 3 months in a massive way.
(08:43) Finally, a quarterly event or going to a workshop. At the end of the day, there’s no way that you on your own with your assistant can recruit and have these meetings every week and it’s going to give you coverage. What I want to encourage you to do is find the AI focused event in your industry or at least the industry event and hopefully they have a whole section on AI.
(09:03) I’d be a little bit concerned if they didn’t. And go sit in that room. Be around those people. That’s where you find potential peers, advisors or vendors that can help you solve the biggest problems you’ve got using AI so you can get leverage because you don’t want to default to labor. You want to look for leverage.
(09:18) But there’s one last shift, and honestly, it’s the one that will make sure you stay ahead because it’s not just about using AI to get stuff done. You need to become a director, not a doer. People ask me all the time, will AI replace me? How do I stay competitive? Here’s what I’ve learned. There’s only three things AI won’t replace. One, vision.
(09:40) Can you predict and see a future that doesn’t exist yet that should? taste. See, AI, just like great music, it doesn’t know when to stop taking things away to consider something complete. Your taste by reviewing 1,500 different Facebook ads, but understanding what the market’s going to resonate with. That is invaluable. And lastly, it’s care.
(10:01) A lot of people call this EQ, emotional intelligence. Your ability to care for people, to interact with people in a caring way that AI will not disrupt. So, you need to become a visionary. You need to become somebody that can predict and see around the corner because AI will take care of the last mile.
(10:18) So this is how you become a director, not a doer. First, we have to stop being busy. A lot of people confuse busyiness with motion. If most of your day is just busy task work, backto back. You have to step back and look for ways automating all of that stuff because in 10 years, AI will be doing 99% of your to-do list.
(10:38) Next, we have to upgrade our taste. This is about understanding what great output looks like. It doesn’t matter if it’s art or business or leadership. You want to study the best in the world. You want to look at what they’re doing and ask yourself, what’s the pattern that they’re all following that’s contributing to that success? Honestly, that’s why I love social media.
(10:58) A lot of people say it can be used for harm. I think it’s the most helpful thing in the world if you use it properly. So go find those examples, follow those people, study those videos on YouTube, and just go and bathe in worldclass mastery. Next, we have to simplify our thinking. See, to be a great director, you need to be able to explain complex problems in a simple way.
(11:19) Let other people go, “Oh, that makes sense.” So, being able to understand what’s available out there, but then create a plan that’s simple, but powerful, that’s going to make you an AI pro. And lastly, we have to practice self-reflection. A life unexamined is a life not lived. We have to look at ways that we can get feedback from other people. It could be our team.
(11:38) It could be our family members. You have to be willing to seek the feedback, the self-reflection to understand, is my calendar getting better? Am I becoming more effective? Is AI giving me more time back? I know AI is overwhelming, but honestly, if you follow this simple road map, you’ll stay ahead of 99% of the people.
(11:57) You’re watching this because you’re like, “Hey, I don’t want to be one of those people that wake up and go, hey, what happened to the horse and buggy and why is everybody driving around these cars?” But here’s what I’ve seen cuz I’m a technology guy. When Uber launched, are all the people that drive Uber’s previous taxi drivers or are they just normal people that shifted into new roles? Most of them never drove a taxi before they drove Uber.
(12:19) The truth is is as innovation creates new opportunity, we’re just going to have people migrate from one skilled area to another. That’s what happened in the industrial revolution and many other transitions along the way. But the difference is the people that were here ahead of the curve and wanted to take advantage, they sold the picks and shovels to all the people looking for gold.
(12:40) That’s the opportunity in front of you. Now, if you want to learn how to get rich in the new AI era, click the video and I’ll see you on the other