How to Actually Learn AI (and Not Just Pretend You Did) You don’t learn AI by watching videos or buying another $99 “Prompt Engineering” course. You learn it by using it. Every day. On real problems. I’ve been doing this since the early days of ChatGPT. Here’s what I’ve learned after dozens of hours, plenty of bad outputs, and real wins: 1. You won’t retain anything if you don’t use it. Courses go stale in six months. Prompts get outdated. Tools evolve weekly. If you’re not applying it daily, you’re falling behind. 2. Learning AI isn’t just asking it to rewrite stuff. Sure, you can dump in a paragraph and ask it to reword. That’s productivity fluff. The real leverage is when AI eliminates work—entire steps, whole workflows, hours of back-and-forth. That’s where the value is. 3. The best way to learn AI is to let AI teach you AI. Record yourself explaining a business task—step by step. Transcribe it. Paste it into ChatGPT. Ask: → How would you improve this? → What can be automated? → What tools would you recommend? Then ask for a training plan—customized to your role, your industry, and your goals. Turn memory on. Use custom instructions. Context is king. 4. Learn by building. Not by consuming. If you want to understand what AI can do: → Build a GPT that helps with a task you do every day. → Create a system that saves your team time. → Let AI review its own prompts and improve them. (Yes, it can do that.) This isn’t a “how to write better prompts” game. It’s a “how to get better outcomes” game. 5. Push it further. Every time you get a response, ask: → Is this the best you can do? → Give me a deeper version. → Show me Level 2. Now Level 3. Then ask it to take on roles. → Act like my customer. → Act like my CFO. → Act like my marketing team. Each role gives you a new lens. That’s where insight lives. 6. Never trust it blindly. AI makes mistakes—lots of them. Same as people. You don’t blindly trust an intern. Don’t blindly trust the AI. Verify the output. Always. Bottom line: 📌 Use it or lose it. 📌 Build with it, don’t just watch others. 📌 Let it train you, but keep your brain turned on. If you’re doing that, you’re already ahead of 95% of the people reposting AI threads. Would you like a sample AI training plan I used to get started? Drop a comment, and I'll post a Custom GPT that builds a training plan based on your skill levels in the comments below.