Seven sentences turn ChatGPT into your private tutor. Whatever you are learning — an exam, a new skill, the tool your company has just told you to use — the same routine works.
How to run it: paste in what you are learning first — your notes, an article, whatever you scribbled down in class — then work your way down. Each prompt covers what the one before it leaves out, so keep the order the first time through.
1. Eight sticky notes
Forces the whole thing into eight pieces small enough to hold in your head. Eight you can see at once, which is how the gaps show up.
Turn this topic into eight visual sticky notes.
2. A visual map
Knowledge is a web, not a list. Seeing which idea connects to which is what makes the why stick, instead of memorising the what.
Draw a visual map that connects the key concepts, then walk me through it.
3. Explain it like I am ten, then test me
The "then test me" half is the whole point. Reading a good explanation feels like understanding; being asked is what tells you whether it was.
Explain this to me as if I'm ten years old, then test me on it.
4. Turn it into a short story
People forget definitions and remember plots. The same material wrapped in a story is still there tomorrow.
Turn this topic into a short story, so it's easier to remember.
5. The three beginner mistakes
The things you would otherwise only learn by getting them wrong once, handed to you up front.
Tell me the three mistakes beginners make most often.
6. Three mental models
Models travel to the next subject; loose facts do not. Learn them once and the next thing you study is cheaper.
Give me three mental models for understanding this.
7. A seven-day plan with spaced repetition
Without this last one, everything the first six put in your head is gone by next week.
Build me a seven-day study plan with spaced repetition built in.
None of these prompts is clever. You could do every one of them by hand. The real difference is having a mindset and a system — the same routine, every time you learn something new. The AI does the work; the thinking is still yours.
Don’t be greedy on the first run: Resist firing all seven at once. Take the thing you actually have to learn this week and work one through seven properly. By the end you will know which of them earn their place for you.
