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So, everyone keeps obsessing over Claude

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and ChatGPT, but no one is looking at

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this tool. And yet, I've used it to make

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more money, be more efficient, and do

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less of the stuff that I don't really

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want to do. And the coolest part about

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it is that it's embedded in everything

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that I already use. So, in today's

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video, let me talk to you about Gemini.

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So, look, the last few months I have

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been on a bit of a mission, basically

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testing out every single AI tool there

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is. And over the last few weeks, I've

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been focusing on Gemini. Now, you might

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be asking, what makes Gemini different

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from Claude, ChatGPT, or any of the

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others? Well, the answer doesn't really

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come down to the AI itself. It's about

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who's behind it. Google, a $4 trillion

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company, one of the biggest on the

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planet. So, really think about it for a

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second. Google owns an absurd amount of

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the infrastructure that most of us use

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day-to-day. Your email, Google. Your

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calendar, Google. Your documents,

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Google. The platform that you are

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watching this on right now, YouTube,

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well, that's also owned by Google.

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Almost no other AI has that. Not a

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single one of them is already integrated

1:02

inside of everything that you use. So,

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I've gone ahead and pulled together the

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best tips that I found while using it,

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and I'm actually split them into three

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levels. You've got beginner,

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intermediate, and advanced. But, real

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quick, before we get into it, as your

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big brother here on YouTube, [music]

1:17

I want to give one of you a brand new

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MacBook. It's a little gift for me to

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help you along in your online journey.

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So, if you want to win, here is all that

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you have to do. I want you to watch the

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entire video. Once you've done that,

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leave a like, and also leave a comment

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of which tip that you found the most

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useful. Even though the topic of today's

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video is AI, if it isn't AI comment, you

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will be disqualified. Trust me, I can

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tell who's actually watched the video

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and who hasn't. [music] So, go ahead and

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drop it in the comment section, and come

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back to next week's video, and I'm going

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to leave it as a pinned comment under

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that. But, with all of that out the way,

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let's jump straight into it. All right,

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so starting off with beginner tip number

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one, setting up your personal

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intelligence. Now, I know that that

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might sound fancy, but honestly, it's

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not. It took me like 10 or 15 minutes to

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set up, if that. Literally, all you have

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to do is hit the settings icon, click on

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personal intelligence, and then you're

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going to see three things pop up. You've

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got memory, connected apps, and

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instructions, and we're going to come

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back to memory in just a second. So,

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let's actually start with connected

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apps. This is where you're actually

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going to link whatever you're already

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using day-to-day, your calendar, your

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email, your Google Workspace, YouTube,

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pretty much anything Google related, you

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can just plug it in here. Now, this is

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actually going to become a bit more

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relevant later on in the video when we

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get into one of the more advanced tips.

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So, for now, just go ahead and connect

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it while you're already here. Then,

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you've got instructions, and this is

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really just you telling Gemini how you

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want it to behave with you moving

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forward. Because when it comes to AI,

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context is everything, right? Yes, of

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course, the tool is super powerful, but

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if it doesn't know how you work, how you

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think, and how you want to work with it,

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it's going to slow you down more than it

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actually speeds you up. And honestly, I

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cannot stress enough how worth it it is

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to sit down and do this. So, mine is

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actually configured to do two things.

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First is keep answers short and straight

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to the point. And second, I told it not

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to be a yes-man, okay? Actually, push

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back on me. If the idea is weak, tell me

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it's weak, and then also tell me why.

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That way we end up going back and forth

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instead of just agreeing with whatever I

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say. It's little things like this that

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might seem tedious to do, but spend

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literally 15 minutes doing it properly,

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and [music] I promise you the payoff is

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huge. Now, I said that we'd actually

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come back to memory, and here's why.

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Because this one is in a slightly

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different spot for whatever reason. So,

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you're going to go back into settings

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and just below personal intelligence,

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you're going to see import memory to

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Gemini. You're going to click into that,

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>> [music]

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>> and then there's two options sitting in

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there. Now, I'll be honest, if this

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feature didn't exist, I would probably

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still be on ChatGPT right now. I stayed

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there way longer than I should have

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purely because of its memory with me.

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Because after you've worked with an AI

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for long enough, it starts to understand

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your preferences, your business, and the

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way that you make decisions. Moving to a

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new tool can feel like starting from

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zero. And starting fresh from zero

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wasn't something that I was looking to

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do. But look, you don't have to worry

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about that anymore because these days it

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is so easy to transfer over. The first

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part here is importing your memory. How

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it works is Gemini is actually going to

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give you a prompt. You're going to copy

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it, you're going to paste it into

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whatever AI that you've been using, and

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it actually hands you back a summary of

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everything that knows [music] about you.

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And then, you're going to bring that

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summary over to Gemini, paste it in, and

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done. Then the second one goes a little

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bit further than that. You can actually

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export your entire chat history and

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bring that all in, too. Now, I know that

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these seem pretty similar, but they are

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actually quite different. Memory is more

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of like a summary. So, your job, your

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preferences, facts about you, that kind

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of thing. Whereas chat history is

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literally every conversation that you've

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ever had with it. And that means that

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you're not sat there trying to play

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catch-up and rebuild your past

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conversations. So, if you are properly

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making the switch, honestly, I would

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just do both. And even if you're only

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trying Gemini out for now, I would still

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do it anyways. To do it, it's pretty

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simple wherever you're coming from. I'm

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not going to show you exactly how to get

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it done because it's slightly different

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depending on where you're actually

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migrating over from. But once again,

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just head into the settings of your old

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AI, and somewhere in there there's going

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to be an option

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>> [music]

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>> to export your chat history. From there,

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just come back to Gemini, click on

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upload, and give Gemini your files. Is

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it a little tedious? Yes. Is it worth

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doing? Absolutely. Remember, this all

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comes down to context because context is

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everything with AI, and the more it gets

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to know about you, the better it gets.

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[music] So, now that you've helped

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Gemini understand you a little bit

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better, it's probably worth

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understanding it a little better, too.

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And that's actually tip number two,

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understanding the different models in

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here and what each of them is actually

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doing to your usage. Because when you

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signed up for Gemini, you probably saw a

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bunch of different plans on there, each

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one saying that it had more usage than

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the last. And what that usage actually

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is is tokens. Now, tokens are basically

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just credits that you're spending every

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time you use the software. And look, if

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you're balling out and you've got no

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problem paying hundreds of dollars a

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month on buying extra credits, then by

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all means you can go ahead and skip this

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tip and move on to the next one. You

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see, at my companyconsulting.com, we've

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got AI built into pretty much every

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department at this point. Sales,

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support, marketing, dev, all of it. And

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then on top of that, we've either built

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or licensed multiple AI software

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companies that our clients use every

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single day. That's thousands of users

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across multiple tools. And when you add

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all of that together, we are literally

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spending hundreds of thousands of

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dollars a month just in tokens alone.

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Now, of course, you're not spending

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anywhere near that, I know. But it works

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the exact same for you, just on a

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smaller scale. It is the difference

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between getting your work done or

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hitting your limit halfway through and

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then just sitting there waiting for it

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to reset. And it really just comes down

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to one simple concept. The higher up the

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tiers [music] that you go, the more that

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the model thinks and the more complex

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the work it can handle. But that also

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comes at a price. And that price is

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tokens. The deeper that it thinks, the

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more that it burns. So, let me actually

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walk you through the three models that

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Gemini has to offer. The first one is

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called flashlight, and this is for all

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the stuff that doesn't really need much

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thinking at all. This will be just for a

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quick back and forth or summarizing a

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meeting script, organizing a prospect

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list, maybe refining the text on a

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resource that you've built. Basically,

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all of the things that you could

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technically do yourself, but you're just

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handing it over to to save time. Look,

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let's be real, none of that needs any

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real thinking from it, which is exactly

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why you should be using it because

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flashlight barely touches your usage.

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Then you've got your middle ground,

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which is actually called flash, and this

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is really your daily driver, okay? It's

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the balance between getting proper work

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done while also not torching your usage

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by doing it. Now, with this specific

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model, you get a bit of that second

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layer thinking, where it's reasoning

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through the problem instead of just

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handing you the obvious answer. So,

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let's say you're either building

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something or working through something

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that needs a little bit more thinking,

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this is where you're going to spend most

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of your time. And then there's pro, and

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this is really the one that you're going

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to pull out when your boss asks you for

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something that you haven't even started

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and he asked for it yesterday. In this

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case, there is no time for back and

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forth or arguing with it. Or this is for

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if you're working on something that's

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really big and important, where you

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actually need multiple layers of

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thinking. I'm talking complex multi-step

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stuff. That is what Pro's for. But once

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again, use it sparingly because if you

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don't, you're not going to get more than

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a few back and forth from it. All right,

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so you've got Gemini understanding you

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and you already know which models to

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reach for when you need to get a

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specific task done. Now we're actually

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going to take it a step further and

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become a lot more efficient when it

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comes to using Gemini. And that is tip

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number three, which is gems [music] and

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skills. You see, once you start using

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these properly, you're going to realize

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how often you've just been wasting your

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time prompting AI with the same

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instructions typed out again and again

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for the exact same job. And that's just

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a waste if you ask me. Well, that is

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exactly what these next two features are

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there to fix. So, let's start with gems.

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Now before we get into it, you might be

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wondering why would they name this gems?

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I'll be honest, I had no idea. So I

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actually asked Gemini why they called it

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gems and apparently it's because you

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customize it for a specific job, which

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to me still didn't really make sense.

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But anyways, where were we? Yes, a gem

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is basically just a regular Gemini chat,

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but with the knowledge base that you

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actually stack on top of. Now what that

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means is it already knows the context

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that you've given it, right? So it

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already knows the instructions that

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you've set. So you're not going to be

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sat there re-explaining yourself over

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and over. So let's say you write your

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emails in a certain way. Instead of

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telling Gemini how you like them written

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every single time, instead you build

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that into a gem once and from then on,

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it just knows. Or maybe Gemini is

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helping you refine a process. You can

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upload all of the documentation behind

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that process and then it can just

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reference it directly when it helps you

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build. Look, either way setting one up

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is pretty quick. All you're going to do

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is hit the settings icon, then you're

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going to click on gems, you're going to

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hit add new gem, you're going to give it

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a name, a quick description, and then

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you're just going to spend a bit of time

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on the instructions because well, I mean

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that's kind of the entire point, right?

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Then the last step is to actually upload

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any files that you have that would help

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this gem get the job done. And look,

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you're not just limited to one of these,

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okay? You can build different gems for

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different tasks, for different projects.

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So I would just recommend giving them a

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go. [music] Now on the other side of the

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coin, you've got skills. A gem is

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something that you can talk to, okay?

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Like a customized version of Gemini to

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go back and forth with, but a skill is a

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repeatable process that Gemini can call

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into when it needs to complete a certain

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type of task. And once that is created,

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Gemini can just pull from those

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instructions, so that way

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>> [music]

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>> you don't have to re-explain how to do

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something. And the best part is, you

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don't even need to build these from

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scratch. You can just describe what you

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want, and then you can have Gemini build

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a skill for you. And if you've already

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got a skill file written for Claude or

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any other AI for that matter, you can

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just upload it straight into that. And

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let's say that that's too much effort

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for you, or you want to get a little bit

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more creative, there's actually a site

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called AI Agents Library, and people are

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already sharing ready-made ones on

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there, so that way you can just go ahead

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and download it. Literally thousands of

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them sitting right there, between

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writing, coding, design, whatever it is

10:23

you need, it's probably there. So, if

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you just spend some time setting up both

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of these, you're going to save a lot of

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time repeating yourself over and over

10:30

again. Now, look, I don't know how much

10:31

time you spend on YouTube, but if you're

10:32

anything like me, it's probably more

10:34

than you would like to admit. And look,

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I think that this is the most valuable

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platform out there. The amount that you

10:39

can learn on here for free is crazy. I

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think it's something like 500 hours of

10:43

video are uploaded to YouTube every

10:44

single minute, which is 30,000 hours of

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content every hour. So, that comes out

10:48

to something like 80 years of content a

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day that's posted. Now, of course,

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granted, that's not all educational,

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okay? A lot of it is entertainment or

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just random bits and bobs. So, look, the

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point is there is a lot of content on

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this platform, which is genuinely great.

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But, there is nothing more annoying than

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only needing 30 seconds of a video and

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then having to watch through the whole

11:05

thing to get it. Even if you bump it up

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to two or three x speed, you can still

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spend hours on here trying to absorb

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everything. Well, you don't have to

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anymore, which is tip number four, which

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is using Gemini for YouTube. Now, you

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remember how Google basically owns

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everything? Well, YouTube is one of

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those things. So, it makes sense that

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Gemini would talk to it directly. You

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can actually click the Gemini button

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while you're on a video, and you can ask

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it questions about what you're watching.

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And from there, you can actually get the

11:30

the thing summarized, or pull out the

11:32

bits that you actually need. And this is

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especially useful when there's no

11:35

timestamps on a video and you're trying

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to track down one specific thing without

11:39

scrubbing through the whole video. Now,

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look, it's not perfect. It can

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hallucinate, and depending on how tricky

11:44

the question you're asking, it doesn't

11:46

always get it right. I actually use

11:47

specialized tools for this myself most

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of the time. These are designed from the

11:51

ground up to help with this, but during

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my last few weeks where I've only stuck

11:54

to Gemini and just used it as my daily

11:56

driver, I made myself stick to it

11:58

instead. And the truth is that Gemini

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gets you about 70% of the way there, and

12:02

for 0% of the price because it's already

12:04

included in your subscription. And for

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most of you out there, 70% is more than

12:07

enough. All right, so this next tip is

12:08

going to fall into the bracket of it's

12:10

pretty cool, but you probably don't

12:11

really need it, but you're already

12:12

paying for it every single month, so you

12:14

might as well know it's there. And

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that's tip number five, which is using

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Gemini Live. And what it does is,

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instead of typing back and forth with

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Gemini, you can just speak to it like

12:22

you are literally on a call with

12:23

someone. And on top of that, you can

12:24

actually turn on your camera so it can

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see exactly what you're looking at while

12:28

you're talking to it. So, realistically,

12:30

for most of your day-to-day, you're

12:31

probably not going to use this that

12:32

much. I mean, to be honest, that was the

12:33

case for me. But when I was putting this

12:35

video together, I actually spoke to some

12:36

of my colleagues on my product team if

12:38

they've ever used it, and I had some

12:40

interesting stories. One of them

12:41

actually told me that he used it to fix

12:43

his garage door. He literally pointed

12:45

the camera at the motor, and then told

12:48

Gemini what the issue was, and it

12:49

actually walked him through exactly how

12:51

to reconfigure [music] it, what to push,

12:53

what to hold, when to stop, basically

12:55

whatever goes into configuring a garage

12:57

door motor, which is pretty impressive

12:59

if you think about it, but it's a bit of

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a niche one. I'm sure if you play around

13:02

with it and test it, you'll find some

13:03

more use cases for this specific [music]

13:05

function. And now for the more

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intermediate tips, we're going to focus

13:08

on building with Gemini. So, look, one

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of the most frustrating things for me

13:11

when I'm building something with AI is

13:13

having to sit there, copy it out, and

13:15

paste it into whatever it is I'm working

13:17

on. And then, go back, work and tweak

13:19

some more, and then copy it back again

13:21

every single time. [music] That back and

13:24

forth takes forever. If you've ever used

13:26

AI before, then I'm sure you've been

13:27

there, too. Well, look, Gemini's got

13:29

something for that, which brings us to

13:30

tip number six, use canvas. Your chat

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stays on the left, and whatever you're

13:34

working on sits on the right. So, that

13:36

way, when you ask it to change

13:37

something, it's just going to update it

13:39

right there in place instead of

13:40

reprinting the whole thing back at you

13:42

to copy over. Look, this one's a little

13:44

bit hard to describe cuz there isn't

13:45

just like one specific use case for

13:47

this. It works for writing, it works for

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coding, it works for studying, basically

13:51

anything where the thing is constantly

13:53

updating, and you want to keep your eye

13:54

on it as it does. So, instead of trying

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to explain, let me just go ahead and

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show you how it works. Let's take

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studying cuz that's a easy one for me to

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show you. Now, look, I'm not studying at

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the moment, but just to show you how it

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works. I'm actually going to go ahead

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and upload a chapter from one of my

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favorite books straight into the canvas,

14:08

and then I'm going to ask it to build me

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a 10-question quiz off the back of it.

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And you're going to see that it's

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interactive, as well. Now, the first

14:15

question, if I get it wrong, it's going

14:16

to tell me straight away, and then I

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move on to the next one. So, look, you

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might be in the same position as me,

14:20

which is not in high school or not

14:22

studying in college, [music] but I know

14:24

there's a lot of you out there that are

14:25

just learning something, okay? Whether

14:26

that's exams or certifications, or you

14:28

just generally want to brush up on your

14:30

knowledge about something. Well, then in

14:31

that case, this is for you. Then you've

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got coding, and it works the exact same

14:35

way. It just asks you to build a simple

14:37

app to do whatever you need, and it

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builds it right there in the canvas. So,

14:40

let's say I wanted to track one of my

14:42

workouts. Let me give it some basic

14:44

information about what I want, and let's

14:46

see what it comes up with. And there it

14:47

is, first version working. Now, sure, I

14:49

could sit here for a while, make it

14:50

perfect, but the whole reason I would

14:51

build this instead of just downloading

14:53

something off of the App Store, is that

14:55

I can make it exactly what I need it to

14:57

be. And it doesn't need to be workout

14:58

stuff, either. If there's something

15:00

you're stuck on for work, something

15:01

that's a pain to deal with, see if you

15:03

can actually build an app around it. I

15:05

mean, look, it's sitting in your

15:05

subscription anyways. And lastly, canvas

15:08

works the exact same way with writing,

15:09

too. So, if you're working on a script

15:11

or a document, you can just bring it up

15:13

into the canvas and work on it right

15:14

there instead of juggling two different

15:16

tabs. So, look, up until now, almost

15:18

everything that we've done has had

15:19

Gemini's stuck inside of its own chat

15:22

window. The next tip [music] changes all

15:24

of that, and that's actually using

15:26

Gemini inside of Chrome. Now, this one

15:28

is probably obvious, but this is only

15:29

going to work if you're using Chrome as

15:31

your main browser. It's not going to

15:32

work with Safari or Firefox or anything

15:35

else. [music] But as long as you're

15:36

using Chrome, you've got it. So, if you

15:38

look at the top right of your screen,

15:39

there's actually an ask Gemini button

15:41

there. You're just going to click on

15:42

that, and then Gemini is going to open

15:44

up on the right side next to whatever it

15:45

is that you're currently working on, and

15:47

now it can actually see your screen. So,

15:49

let's say you've read some long article,

15:51

and you've got a question about it. You

15:52

don't need to copy a big chunk out and

15:54

then paste [clears throat] it into a

15:55

chat anymore. It's already looking at

15:57

the page. You just ask directly there.

15:59

And if you want to get a real techy with

16:01

it, you can actually point it to a few

16:02

different tabs at once. So, let's say

16:04

you're booking a holiday, you've got

16:05

[music] five different places that

16:06

you're thinking of staying at. Normally,

16:08

you're clicking back and forth between

16:09

those tabs trying to figure out which

16:11

one's cheaper, or which one's got the

16:13

better reviews, or closer to the beach.

16:15

Instead, you're going to type the at

16:16

symbol, you're going to pick your tabs,

16:18

and ask it once. It's going to go

16:19

through all five and tell you which one

16:22

fits what you're after. Now, look, I

16:23

know that sounds like a small thing on

16:25

its own, but once you get used to it,

16:27

it's saving you that 15 seconds of

16:29

jumping between tabs every time. And

16:31

when you're doing that 30 or 40 times a

16:32

day, it starts to add up a lot more than

16:34

you think. [music] Now, right at the

16:36

start, I told you that the reason Gemini

16:38

is different is because Google is the

16:40

one behind [music] it. And Google runs

16:42

pretty much everything you're already

16:43

using day-to-day. And this is supposed

16:45

to be where it all pays off. And it

16:47

does, in a way, and I'm going to get

16:48

into the butt in just a second. But

16:50

nevertheless, that brings us onto tip

16:52

eight, which is making use of the

16:54

workspace integration. You see, some AI

16:56

tools do plug into other software to

16:59

some degree these days. But because

17:01

Google owns the tools themselves, they

17:04

are built [music] directly into the

17:05

software. I mean, it's already sitting

17:07

there inside of Gmail, Docs, Sheets, all

17:09

of it. You never have to leave what

17:11

you're doing to go and use it. So, let's

17:13

take Gmail for example. You're writing

17:14

an email, and there's a little pen icon

17:17

sitting right there in the compose

17:18

window that will basically write it with

17:20

you. Or let's say that you land on one

17:22

of those threads that's gone 40 replies

17:24

deep, and you have no idea what's even

17:25

been decided anymore. Just tell Gemini

17:28

to summarize it, and then it hands you

17:29

back exactly what was agreed and what's

17:31

landed on you to do. Docs work the exact

17:34

same way. It's just a panel sitting

17:36

right next to whatever it is that you're

17:37

writing. Draft the whole thing from

17:39

scratch, get it to summarize what's

17:40

already there, or ask it a question

17:43

about whatever you're reading without

17:44

ever opening a new tab for it. Sheets is

17:46

probably the one that saves you the most

17:48

pain out of all of them. Basically, tell

17:49

it what you want to do, and it writes

17:51

the formula and drops it straight into

17:53

the cell for you. No more sitting there

17:55

Googling how to build formulas because,

17:57

respectfully, if the tool can write the

17:58

formula for you, well then why are you

18:00

spending 20 minutes on the task? And on

18:01

top of all of that, you can tell it to

18:03

pull from an email thread, or let's say

18:05

a file sitting in Drive, both at once,

18:08

and draft something off of the two of

18:09

them together. Now look, on paper, this

18:11

is all very impressive, but it's really

18:13

only effective if you're already on

18:14

Workspace, if Docs and Sheets, as well

18:17

as Gmail, are your daily drivers. If

18:19

that's you, brilliant. This is going to

18:20

work exactly how you would want it to.

18:22

If it's not, then none of this really

18:23

applies to you the same way, and that is

18:25

something I'm going to come back to once

18:27

we've gone through the rest of the list.

18:29

All right, so that's the intermediate

18:30

stuff done, and the last two on this

18:31

list are stepping up from everything

18:33

that we've covered so far, but they're

18:35

probably the ones you're also going to

18:36

get the most out of. First up is Spark.

18:38

Now, if you've ever heard of Claude's

18:40

co-work feature or ChatGPT work, this is

18:42

basically the Google equivalent. It

18:44

basically runs on its own, makes its own

18:46

calls, and gets stuff done for you

18:48

without you sitting there watching it

18:50

happen. Trust me, I'm aware of how that

18:52

sounds. AI doing its own thing, making

18:54

its own calls, that probably makes you

18:55

feel a bit uneasy, and I totally get it.

18:57

But think about it like this, Spark is

18:59

basically like hiring your own personal

19:01

assistant, and I'm sure you would agree,

19:02

if you hired a personal assistant, and

19:04

then you just sat there overlooking

19:06

[music] every single task that they did,

19:08

well then you'd kind of be missing the

19:09

whole point, no? The whole reason you

19:11

hire someone like that is that they take

19:13

the load off of you. And that is exactly

19:15

why, right at the [music] start of this

19:17

video, I told you to go and connect your

19:19

calendar and all of your other apps.

19:21

Because that is what makes this personal

19:22

assistant good at its [music] job. So,

19:24

after a couple weeks of using this, here

19:27

is how I've got it working for me. Every

19:28

night before I go to bed, it's going to

19:30

go through my entire inbox while I'm

19:32

asleep, and that way by the time that I

19:33

wake up, it's taken everything that came

19:35

in and actually turned it into a summary

19:38

sitting inside a Google Doc. That way I

19:40

just grab my coffee and I spend my

19:41

morning going through what's priority

19:43

and what's not, instead of having to go

19:44

through every single email one by one.

19:46

Now, you might not be getting emails at

19:48

all hours like me, but let's say you've

19:49

got a lot on your plate this week. That

19:52

is when you sit down, you give Spark the

19:54

full list of everything that you need to

19:55

get done, and ask it to prioritize it.

19:58

It's going to go ahead and block out

19:59

time on your calendar for each one, so

20:01

that way you can just do the work

20:03

instead of trying to juggle it all in

20:04

your head. Or let's say your inbox is

20:06

full of hundreds and hundreds of emails,

20:08

just ask Gemini to go through them and

20:10

clean it up for you. And if you want to

20:11

push this a bit further, Spark can work

20:13

directly on your laptop, too. If you're

20:15

anything like me, your desktop is a

20:17

complete mess. You've got files and

20:19

folders you haven't touched in months,

20:20

if not years. You can literally just

20:22

tell Spark to go in there, sort it,

20:24

categorize all of it, and a few minutes

20:26

later, you come back to a clean desktop.

20:27

Now, look, I want to put one caveat

20:29

here, okay? Because I don't want you to

20:31

come back to me saying, "Hey, Spark's

20:32

deleted all my important files." AI has

20:34

gotten good these days,

20:35

>> [music]

20:36

>> really good, but I'm not sure it's at

20:38

the point that I trust it with

20:39

everything. So, let's say you have a

20:40

folder with your banking information,

20:42

medical records, anything like that.

20:43

Just move it somewhere else safe first,

20:45

and then let Gemini work the rest. All

20:47

right, so last one on the list, tip

20:49

number 10, is deep research. But, we're

20:51

going to do something a little different

20:53

with it here, and I'm going to get into

20:54

that in just a second. You've probably

20:55

got a rough idea what this is by now.

20:57

It's when you get AI to go off and pull

20:59

together a full research report on

21:01

whatever it is that you've asked it. And

21:03

it's genuinely useful, okay? But, you've

21:05

got to know how to properly use it. If

21:07

you are not specific about what you

21:08

actually want out of it, you're just

21:10

going to get a whole lot of nonsense

21:11

back and you would have burned a big

21:13

chunk of your usage getting there. So

21:15

before I even run the research, I get

21:16

Gemini to help me build the prompt

21:18

[music] first. I give it a bit of

21:19

context on what I'm trying to do and

21:21

then I tell it to ask me as many

21:23

questions as it needs before we go

21:25

anywhere near the actual research and

21:27

the results come back noticeably better

21:29

since I started doing it this way. But

21:31

look, you already know that AI can go

21:33

ahead and do the research. That's

21:34

nothing new, right? What we're doing

21:35

here is taking it one step further. Now

21:38

once that report's done, we're actually

21:39

going to pair it with something called

21:40

Gemini notebook. Now if you haven't come

21:42

across it yet, they also sometimes call

21:44

it notebook LM. It's depending on where

21:46

you look. Google can't seem to really

21:48

settle on a name for it. But the point

21:49

is all you need to do is drop your

21:51

report straight into it. Then you're

21:53

going to click the notebook icon in the

21:54

top right. It's going to open up a new

21:56

tab. Once again, it doesn't cost you

21:58

anything extra either. It's [music]

21:59

already sitting in your subscription.

22:00

Once you're in there, it can feel a

22:01

little overwhelming at first. There's

22:03

quite a bit going on in there. You have

22:05

audio overviews, flashcards, mind maps,

22:07

quizzes, full written reports, [music]

22:09

the whole lot. That alone probably I can

22:11

make a whole dedicated video on, but

22:13

that's not what we're going to do today.

22:14

The one I want to show you here is the

22:16

audio overview. So let's say you've

22:17

pulled together all this research.

22:18

[music] You're going to click into the

22:19

audio overview. You're going to pick

22:21

your format. I would probably start with

22:23

deep dive if I wanted the full

22:24

explanation, but brief, critique and

22:26

debate are also useful depending on what

22:28

you're trying to do. Then you're going

22:29

to pick your length and you're going to

22:31

pick which source it's actually pulling

22:32

from. And what it spits out on the other

22:34

end is basically a podcast episode

22:36

[music] built entirely off of your own

22:38

research that you can just put on

22:40

whenever you want. So I'll actually put

22:41

it on if I'm going for a run or going to

22:43

the gym or let's say out on a long

22:45

drive. It's basically another way for me

22:47

to get the information into my head.

22:49

Once again, I know that not all of you

22:50

are students. I mean, I'm not, but even

22:52

if reading's just not your thing or

22:53

you're trying to get some sort of

22:54

certification or become an expert on a

22:56

topic, this is genuinely very useful and

22:58

I would put it near the top of your

22:59

list. So I'll actually get my team to

23:00

put up a 10-second clip of what it made

23:02

for me.

23:03

>> Yeah, that is the exact problem that

23:05

this research blueprint we're doing a

23:07

deep dive into today tries to solve.

23:09

It's um it's basically a rigorous

23:11

treasure map.

23:12

>> Now look, that was only 10 seconds, but

23:14

I hope you kind of get the idea, right?

23:15

This is actually quite insane. So, on

23:17

its own, deep research basically just

23:19

hands [music] you a big wall of text,

23:20

whereas notebooks is what actually turns

23:22

it into something that is a lot more

23:24

approachable that you're actually going

23:25

to sit down and use. Or in my case, just

23:27

something I can put on and listen to.

23:29

Those are the 10 tips that I found

23:31

useful when using Gemini. But, I've got

23:33

to be a little bit honest with you here

23:34

for a minute. Like I said right at the

23:36

start, Gemini is in a unique spot

23:38

because Google owns it, and Google owns

23:40

most of what you're already using. And

23:41

there is genuine upside to that, okay?

23:44

It's right there in your Gmail, in your

23:45

Docs, everywhere you work. It's good

23:48

across the board, but that's exactly the

23:49

problem. It's good across the board and

23:52

not great at any one thing. Because it

23:53

feels like Google got so focused on

23:55

getting Gemini into everything, they've

23:57

gone very wide with it, okay? Gemini is

23:59

in Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Search, Chrome

24:02

on your phone, literally everywhere.

24:03

But, going wide doesn't automatically

24:05

mean going deep and making it

24:06

exceptional at one thing. And here's

24:08

where I personally think they've fallen

24:09

a bit short at the moment. And you can

24:11

see it. It's changed so much over the

24:13

last few months that it just doesn't

24:14

feel ready. And that is the trap with

24:17

all of these generic AI tools. The wider

24:19

you go, the more that you try to do, the

24:21

more average the whole thing gets. It

24:23

ends up being fine in everything instead

24:25

of brilliant at just one thing. And for

24:27

most of what we covered today, fine is

24:29

enough. It's going to tidy your inbox.

24:30

It's going to teach you something. It's

24:31

going to sort your files. Little fixes

24:33

that take some weight off of your day,

24:34

but that's not the stuff that changes

24:36

your life. What actually does change

24:38

your life is having something

24:39

specialized. Something built to go deep

24:41

on one area and really deliver there,

24:44

whether that's your health, your

24:45

relationships, or your income. So, if

24:47

you are after real change in one part of

24:50

your life, not just the surface level

24:52

stuff, then I'm running an event called

24:53

the Side Hustle Summit. It runs from the

24:55

6th to the 13th of September live over

24:58

the course of 5 days and it's completely

25:00

free to join. I'm going to show you how

25:03

AI can help you build a side hustle

25:05

without showing your face, without any

25:06

money up front, and without any

25:08

experience going into it. And to top it

25:10

all off, I'm bringing my own

25:12

billion-dollar mentor with me. Someone

25:14

who's helped other people generate over

25:15

10 billion dollars tracked online. So,

25:17

if that sounds like you, come join us.

25:19

There's going to be a link in the

25:20

description [music] to sign up. And

25:22

before you go, remember that MacBook I

25:23

mentioned at the start? If you want to

25:25

win it, drop a comment and let me know

25:26

which one of these 10 tips you found

25:28

most useful. But until then, as always,

25:30

I'm watching from afar and I'm rooting

25:32

for you.

Interactive Summary

This video explores the practical benefits of using Google's Gemini, highlighting its deep integration into the Google ecosystem. The creator details ten actionable tips ranging from beginner setup to advanced productivity workflows—such as personal intelligence, model selection, Gems, skills, YouTube interaction, Gemini Live, canvas for project management, Chrome integration, workspace tools, and deep research with Notebook LM—arguing that while Gemini may not be the 'best' at any single task, its ubiquity and connectivity offer immense efficiency gains for daily tasks.

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