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If you are happy doing the same boring

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repetitive work every week for the rest

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of your career, well then click off

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right now because the next 30 minutes

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are for people who want out of that.

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>> you're not interested in working less,

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getting your time back, and following in

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the footsteps of Tony Stark and having

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your own personal version of Jarvis,

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well then you can click away now because

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this video probably [music] isn't for

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you. But if that does sound like

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something that you want, well then stick

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around because that is honestly where we

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are at right now with AI. Look, I'm

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actually going to admit something to

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you. I'm not the most technical guy in

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the world and I'm usually not the first

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mover to things when they first come

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out. So last year I had to have a proper

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catch-up myself when it comes to Claude

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because I definitely wasn't one of the

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early adopters. But once I did, it

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completely changed the way I worked

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day-to-day. And to be honest, the

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problem is that this thing doesn't come

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with an instruction manual. So most

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people are sitting using maybe 10% of

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what it can actually do, but still

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paying the full monthly subscription for

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it. So in today's video, I'm going to

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give you 10 tips and these are the 10

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that I think will take you from feeling

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like you're behind the curve when it

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comes to Claude all the way to being

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someone who's actually well ahead of it

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because that is what these 10 things did

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for me. Now I've actually gone ahead and

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split them into three categories based

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on how easy they are to set up and use.

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So that's going to be your beginner,

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intermediate, and advanced. And with all

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of that being said, let's get into tip

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number one, which is actually email

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choice. And this is going to seem like

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something so ridiculously

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but you would be surprised how many

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people make this mistake. [music]

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Because when you sign up to Claude,

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whatever email you use, you're stuck

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with it permanently. Unfortunately,

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Claude doesn't let you change the email

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that's [music] tied to your account, at

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least not at the time of making this

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video, and I have seen it happen to so

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many people and I actually feel really

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bad for them. Look, just like every

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other company in the world, at

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consulting.com, my business, we

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sometimes go our separate ways with

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people on our team. And my heart

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absolutely breaks for them when I find

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out that they've used their company

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email for Claude because of course

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[music] when they no longer work at the

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company they don't have access to it

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after we go our separate ways. And it

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just kind of sucks because Claude is

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literally your right hand person.

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[music] Someone who's working with you

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every single day. And as time goes on

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they're going to find out more about

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you, what you like, what you don't like,

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how you want things done. And that's

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actually happening behind the scenes

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every single time that you use it.

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You're basically training it and it gets

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more powerful as time goes on. So it

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would just be a real shame if you built

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up all of that and then lost [music] it

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overnight because you just can't log in

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anymore. And again, I know on paper this

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sounds like such a small thing.

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>> [music]

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>> It's just an email address, but if you

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lose access to that email later down the

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line, well then everything you spent

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weeks, months, and sometimes even years

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building just disappears and there's

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nothing that you can do about it. So

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please, if you're just starting out with

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Claude or you haven't made an account

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yet, just make sure to use an email that

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you know you're keeping for good. All

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right, now that we got that simple tip

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out of the way, I just mentioned to you

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that Claude gets better the more it

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knows you, which brings us directly onto

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the next tip, doing your memory setup.

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Just like most people starting their AI

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journey, I started off with ChatGPT and

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one of the biggest reasons that I didn't

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want to switch over to any other model

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is exactly what we spoke about. After

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working with chat for so long, it

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essentially became an extension of

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myself, right? It thinks how you think,

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it understands your life, your business,

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your goals, pretty much everything,

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which made walking away from that kind

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of feel like starting from zero. So I

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kind of procrastinated. I put it off for

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a long time. Okay, I just refused to

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move over to anything else. It was only

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when I found out that Claude actually

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has an inbuilt import feature that I

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finally made the switch. And maybe you

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already knew this, but if you don't,

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it's actually pretty straightforward. So

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all you're going to do is head over to

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the settings menu and then under

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capabilities you're actually going to

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see that there's an import option to

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import memory from another AI. Claude

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actually then gives you a prompt that

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you run in your old AI platform. You're

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going to copy what it gives you back and

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then you're actually going to paste it

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into Claude, and it pulls that straight

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into the memory. [music] So, that way

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you're not starting from scratch again.

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But, there's actually a small issue that

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I ran into, and you're probably going to

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run into it, too, when doing [music]

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this. It almost always over indexes for

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work-related stuff, and doesn't really

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focus as much on the personal side of

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things. [music] So, what I did was I got

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Claude to interview me directly.

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Essentially, what you're going to do is

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you're just going to prompt it to ask

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you questions based on different areas

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of your life. And from there, all you

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have to do is work through everything

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that it needs to know. It's going to ask

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you questions on your personal life,

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what you do for work, what your goals

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are. But, most importantly, it's going

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to ask you how you want to work with it.

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So, doing this for the first time is a

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little tedious, and that's why I wanted

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to give you a quick warning here. Cuz,

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look, I'll be honest, Claude actually

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comes back with a lot of questions. And

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if you were just to sit there typing

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everything out, it's going to be very,

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very time-consuming. And also, I guess a

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little bit of personal information about

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me, I hate typing. I don't know why, I'm

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just not a typer at all. So, instead of

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sitting there and typing your answers

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for hours and hours and hours, I just

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like to use the voice function inside

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Claude, and I just ramble and give it

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everything it needs. Now, if you want to

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take it a little bit further, you can

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also use voice-to-text softwares [music]

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like WhisperFlow, and they're basically

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going to do the same thing, except

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slightly more accurate. But, look,

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either way, doing this interview is one

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of the best things that I've ever done

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with Claude. And whenever I'm having

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someone in my company on ramp onto

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Claude, I get them to do the exact same

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thing. So, in the description below this

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video, I'll leave a link [music] to the

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prompt, so that way you can just run

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this interview yourself. And that

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actually brings us onto tip number

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three, which is understanding the

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different models. But, before we get

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into it, I just want to give you some

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good [music] news. You might remember in

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the last video, I actually mentioned

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that I would be giving away a brand new

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MacBook. Well, the winner is actually in

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the pinned comment below, along with

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instructions on how to actually claim

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it. And if that wasn't you, do not

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stress, because I'm doing the exact same

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thing again today. You see, I could sit

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here and give you all of the tips and

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tricks in the world, but if you haven't

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got some machinery to work off of, well

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then it doesn't really matter, does it?

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So, I want one of you to walk away from

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today's video with a brand new MacBook,

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as well as everything you're about to

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learn in the next 20 to 30 minutes. All

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you have to do is watch the rest of the

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video and leave a comment down below

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telling me which one of these 10 tips

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you found the most useful and why. And

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just like last week, I'm going to pick a

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winner and [music] leave it as a pinned

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comment in next week's video. So, make

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sure you check that out and see if you

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won. Now that we know how to get Claude

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to understand us better, let's actually

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look at a way that we can understand

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Claude a bit better. And that comes down

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to understanding the different models.

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Look, if you have millions of dollars to

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spend on tokens, well then you can just

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ignore this section, but if you don't

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want to waste money, then I recommend

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listening up. Because just like any

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other AI, using it can actually get very

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expensive. And I know this very

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intimately because at my company

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consultant.com, between internal team

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use and also licensing software for our

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clients, we are literally spending

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hundreds of thousands of dollars a month

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on tokens. That is no word of

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exaggeration. A lot of our clients get

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access to a suite of AI tools that we

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either internally developed or we

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license. So, we have a very good

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understanding of what these things cost

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day-to-day and how they fluctuate based

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on models. And as I said, it really

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depends on which model you're using.

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Claude and pretty much every other AI

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has different models that you can choose

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from depending on the task. The higher

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tier the model, the deeper the model

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thinks and [music] the more complex the

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work it's doing for you actually is. But

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the deeper it thinks and the more

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complex the task is, the more it's going

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to burn through tokens. So, we have to

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be very careful about which model we're

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actually using because sometimes we're

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spending five, sometimes even 10 times

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more on things than you need to. Now

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look, I know 99% of you aren't spending

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hundreds of thousands of dollars a month

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on tokens like we do at our business,

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but you're going to have the exact same

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problem just on a smaller scale. For

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you, it's going to mean hitting your

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usage limit quicker and then having to

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wait for it to reset. And look, I don't

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know about you, but for me personally,

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there's nothing more annoying than

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hitting a limit. Well, I guess more

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annoying is paying for extra credits,

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but that's exactly what we are trying to

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avoid with the third tip I'm giving you.

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So, let me give you a high-level of the

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different models and how they work.

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Starting with the lowest model, which is

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Haiku. So, Haiku is exactly what you

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want for something like that interview

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from the last tip I gave you. This is

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where there's going to be loads of back

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and forth, but nothing that really needs

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any deep thinking from Claude's side.

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Then, you've got Sonnet, and this should

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really be your daily driver. It's a

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decent step up from Haiku when you're

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looking into second-layer thinking and

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tasks where you need to start leaning

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into Claude's ability to actually dive a

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little deeper and analyze different

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concepts and ideas. And then, a step

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above that, you've got Opus. And Opus is

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really where you get that like you get

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that feeling that you you actually have

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like your own Jarvis, okay? When you

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experience it, it just has that like

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slightly deeper level of understanding,

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which means that this is the one you

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want to give the big stuff to, okay?

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[music] Data analysis, complicated

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workflows, pretty much anything with a

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lot of layers to it. And it's with this

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model that you really start feeling it

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when it comes to hitting your usage

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limits quickly. So, whatever you're

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[music] using it for, just make sure

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you're as thorough with your prompts as

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you can be. And then, right at the top,

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we've got Fable. Now, I'm not sure if

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you guys have been keeping up-to-date

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with what's been happening in the world,

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but there was this whole fiasco between

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Anthropic and the US government not too

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long ago. I'm not going to get into all

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of it here, but if you want to, I'm sure

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you can ask Claude. But basically, the

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end result of it was that they had to

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suspend access to it entirely, and it

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only got restored a few weeks ago. So, I

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haven't really had that much time to sit

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down and dive properly into it. But if

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Opus gives you a taste of what it's like

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to have your own Jarvis in real life,

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then look, I can't imagine what this

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thing is going to be capable of. Now,

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the way I want you to think about all of

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this is like a team, right? Look, you

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wouldn't take your most senior guy, the

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top person at the company, and have him

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sitting there answering generic emails

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all day. Quite frankly, that's a waste

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of his skill set, and it's a waste of

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your money. You give him the work that

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no one else can handle, and everything

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else goes to the rest of the team. And

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that's exactly how you should be

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treating these [music] models. Keep the

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smaller stuff for Haiku and Sonnet, and

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then the bigger stuff for Opus and

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Fable. And also, one important tip

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because I've had this issue a lot when I

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was first starting out. There's actually

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a feature inside of Claude called

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research mode. And this isn't a model

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per se, instead it's something you're

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going to toggle on or off within the

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model itself. Basically, what it does is

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it goes out, it's going to scour the

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web, it's going to pull as many

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resources as humanly possible, and then

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it's going to build all of that into a

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proper structured report [music] on

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whatever you asked it. Is it super

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useful? Yes. Does it also eat through

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your usage faster than almost anything

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else? Also, yes. So, if you are planning

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on using it just like Opus, be as

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specific as possible and tell it exactly

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what you want covered. Otherwise, you're

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going to be burning through a big chunk

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of your usage limit on something that

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quite frankly you don't need for most

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tasks. All right, so at this point, you

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know how to use Claude without burning

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through your usage. Now, I want you to

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know how to stop burning your time when

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working with Claude. And that's where

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tip four comes in, using skills. A skill

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is different from a memory. Memory is

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Claude learning about you over time. A

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skill [music] is a fixed set of

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instructions for one specific job that

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you're going to build once, and it runs

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the same way every single time. Look,

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I'm all about efficiency because doing

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monotonous work doesn't benefit anyone.

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If you're building a business and

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sitting there doing the same admin task

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every week isn't making you a single

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dollar. If you're working for a company,

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it's not making you a more valuable part

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of the team either, right? No one has

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ever been promoted for formatting the

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same spreadsheet the same way for the

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ninth week in a row. Anything

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monotonous, anything that you are

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repeating over and over, that should be

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automated, full stop. So, what are some

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of the things that you could turn into

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skills? Let's say you've got a weekly

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report that you write up for your

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manager. It is the same format every

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single time, the same structure, the

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same sections. Well, then, that's a

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skill. Maybe you often post on LinkedIn

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and you follow the [music] same

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structure every time. Congratulations,

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that's a skill. Or, you take your

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meeting [music] notes and you turn them

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into action items every week. That's a

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skill. And to build these, it is super

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straightforward. Once you've locked in

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the process for whatever it is that

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you're going to work on, you just tell

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Claude to go ahead and turn that into a

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skill. That's pretty much all there is

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to it. And honestly, if that's too much

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effort for you, you can actually go

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ahead and grab other people's skills

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that they've already pre-built. I guess

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just like everything in life, there is a

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whole community of people making these

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and sharing them on sites like Skill MP.

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There is literally thousands of them.

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Whether it's code reviewing skill, if

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you're doing the same sort of

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development task, or there's a

11:59

literature review skill if you're in

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university. Look, the odds are is that

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there is someone out there who has

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already created it for you. And to get

12:07

it into your Claude, all you're going to

12:08

do is download the file, you're going to

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head over to your settings, and then

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you're just going to upload it. And it's

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really when you start skill stacking for

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all of just your annoying, monotonous,

12:16

day-to-day stuff that you feel like

12:17

you're closer to having your own

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personal Jarvis. Now, the last of our

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beginner tips pretty much goes against

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what everyone else says online. And

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that's tip number five, which is avoid

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projects. Personally, I hate them. And

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for me, it really comes down to

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something we talked about earlier. You

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see, over time, the more you work with

12:32

Claude, the better it gets. But at the

12:34

same time, you also build up a serious

12:37

amount of chats. And at some point, it

12:39

gets a little difficult to keep track of

12:41

what you're doing. So, when I first

12:42

started using Claude, I was like, okay,

12:43

cool, simple. I'm just going to

12:44

categorize them all into one project.

12:47

I'm going to put them all in their own

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neat little box. But then, I ran into

12:51

something that Claude doesn't really

12:52

make very clear from the start, which is

12:55

that a project has its own separate

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memory. And whatever is in that project

12:59

is actually cut off and basically like

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sealed off from everything else. So,

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let's say you sit down in a normal chat

13:05

and you nail down your brand identity,

13:06

[music]

13:07

your tone, your positioning, how you

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write, who you're speaking to. That's

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the kind of thing that touches every

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single thing you do in Claude, right?

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But then, if you go and work inside of a

13:15

project, you can't see any of that. It's

13:18

like Claude has never met you. And by

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the way, it works the other way, too.

13:21

Whatever you build inside of one project

13:22

actually doesn't carry over to another

13:24

one, or to your general chats. It only

13:26

ever searches within itself. So, you're

13:28

either sitting there copying things

13:30

across yourself or you're re-explaining

13:32

yourself each time. And that's not

13:34

particularly efficient, is it? And look,

13:35

if you want to keep everything

13:36

work-related in one project and

13:38

everything personal in a personal

13:40

project, I mean, look, that's fine. I

13:41

get it. But I wouldn't go dividing

13:43

things up any more than that. Because

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look, you actually might not realize

13:46

that this has been going on and I just

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don't want you to make the same mistake

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that I did. I personally made the

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mistake of thinking that a project is

13:52

just this neat little folder to keep

13:54

things tidy. But unfortunately, it's

13:55

not. And look, if you've already started

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using projects, [music] please don't

13:58

stress. You can actually toggle any chat

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in or out of a project whenever you want

14:03

and actually will just go straight back

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into your regular chats. So, with all of

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that being said, that is the beginner

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section done. Most of that, once you sit

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down and do it, is pretty simple. Now,

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we're going to step up a bit into the

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intermediate tips. So, let's start off

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by connecting your apps to Claude. You

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see, there's a whole bunch of options in

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here

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>> [music]

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>> and I'll be honest, I don't use most of

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them. You're just going to have to go

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through the list and see what makes

14:24

sense for you. But if there are two that

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I would tell you to go and do right now,

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it's connecting your Gmail and your

14:29

calendar. You're actually going to find

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them both under the connector setup

14:32

within your settings. And let me explain

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why I think this is important. I have

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zero doubts that every single person

14:37

watching this, at some point in their

14:39

career, will end up hiring a personal

14:40

assistant to make their life easier. And

14:42

when you do get there, I can honestly

14:44

say that it is by far one of the best

14:46

ways to spend your money. But until that

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day comes, you're probably not going to

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want to spend 50, 100, even 200 grand a

14:52

year on a personal assistant. So, this

14:54

is your first step in that direction.

14:56

Because once you actually connect your

14:57

Gmail, Claude can go through everything

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that's already sitting in there and

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start drafting your replies for you. So,

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instead of sitting there for an hour

15:05

every morning working through your inbox

15:08

one by one, you could just have Claude

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front-load all of that for you as soon

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as you sit down and start your day. Oh,

15:14

and by the way, it only pulls from your

15:16

inbox when you ask it to. It's not like

15:18

sitting in the background just spying on

15:19

your emails. Now, the only part that it

15:21

doesn't do on its own is send the

15:23

emails. It can only draft them for you,

15:25

which [music] in my opinion is

15:27

definitely a great thing. AI has made

15:29

big moves over the last few years, but

15:31

it still gets things wrong sometimes.

15:32

So, I think it's important that you

15:34

proofread every email [music] and then

15:35

send it yourself. Maybe in a couple

15:37

years this will be a different

15:38

conversation, but for now that's the

15:40

best way to do it. And then you've got

15:41

your calendar. And honestly, this one's

15:43

super useful. But, just like a personal

15:45

assistant, it needs to know exactly what

15:47

you've got going on and when. Otherwise,

15:49

it can't really plan around it properly.

15:51

So, if the only thing that's on there

15:52

right now is a handful of work meetings,

15:54

it's not going to get this right. Once

15:56

you've gone ahead and filled in your

15:57

calendar properly, Claude can take a

15:59

look at your week and tell you exactly

16:00

where your gaps are. Let's say you need

16:02

to fit in a work block or find a time

16:04

that makes the most sense for you to go

16:05

to the gym. Or let's say even just

16:07

figure out like when makes the most

16:08

sense to take some time off and see your

16:10

family. Just tell it and it'll find a

16:12

good spot for it. And until you get to

16:13

the point of having your own personal

16:15

assistant, this really gets you 80% of

16:17

the way there for a fraction of the

16:19

price. So, [music]

16:20

that is how you get Claude working with

16:22

your apps. But, everything we've covered

16:23

up until this point has Claude sitting

16:25

inside a chat window somewhere [music]

16:27

waiting for you to come to it. But, what

16:29

happens when you want it to help with

16:30

something that doesn't really work

16:32

within a chat window? That is where tip

16:33

number seven comes in, which is the

16:35

Chrome extension. All you have to do is

16:37

download it from the Chrome Store,

16:38

install it, and then sign in. And that's

16:40

pretty much all there is to it. Now,

16:42

once you've got this running, Claude can

16:43

actually work inside whatever page

16:45

you've got open in front of you. It can

16:47

read the page, it can click things, it

16:49

can actually fill stuff in, move between

16:51

tabs. And the way I want you to think

16:52

about it is kind of like bringing on a

16:54

new hire, because you are the senior guy

16:56

here. You've got a list of things that

16:58

need done today, and a lot of them are

16:59

pretty mundane and boring. They just

17:01

need to get done, so you hand a couple

17:03

of things off and you get on with the

17:04

stuff that actually needs you. The new

17:06

hire will go off and do the mundane

17:08

work. And then every now and then he's

17:09

going to come back and check something

17:11

with you before he commits, which is

17:12

exactly what you would want from someone

17:14

who's been newly hired. But, you are not

17:16

doing the task anymore. You are

17:18

assigning it to someone else. While your

17:20

head is down focused on the bigger

17:21

tasks, Claude is in the background doing

17:23

the grunt work for you. Let's say you're

17:25

buying something and there's four

17:26

different sites selling the same thing.

17:28

You don't want to sit there reading 300

17:29

reviews to work out which one's the

17:31

best. So, it's going to go ahead and do

17:32

that for you. Now, look, is this fully

17:34

autonomous? No, of course not. You're

17:36

still involved. Anytime it's about to do

17:37

something that changes something on the

17:39

page, it stops and it asks you first.

17:41

Once again, for me, this is actually a

17:42

good thing. I trust AI, but I don't

17:44

trust it that much to work autonomously

17:46

and like not get my approval. So, I also

17:48

think it's important that if you're

17:49

going to try this before you start a

17:51

session, just go ahead and close

17:53

whatever you don't want it near. Let's

17:54

say your banking stuff. Let's say

17:56

personal stuff. Whatever else you would

17:57

rather it not touch. And also, I think

17:59

it's good for you to test it on

18:00

something low stakes first. So, that way

18:03

you get comfortable with it, you get a

18:04

feel for it, and then you can move on to

18:06

more important tasks. All right, so that

18:08

is the intermediate done. Now, let's

18:10

move on to the last three. And these

18:11

ones might feel a little bit

18:12

uncomfortable for you. You might feel a

18:14

little bit out of your depth at first,

18:15

but I promise you the payoff is much

18:17

bigger than anything else we've covered

18:18

so far. So, let's go ahead and start

18:20

with Co-work. Now, remember that new

18:22

hire that we spoke about in the last

18:24

tip, the one that you're handing off all

18:26

the mundane stuff to, who keeps coming

18:27

back to check every little [music] thing

18:29

before they actually execute it? Well,

18:31

this same person has now been working

18:33

with you for 6 months, okay? He knows

18:35

how you work now. He's earned a bit of

18:36

trust. So, there's no need to sort of

18:38

stand over your shoulder anymore.

18:39

Instead, you're going to tell him what

18:41

needs to be done. He comes back with how

18:42

he's going to do it, and once you have

18:44

given him the nod, he goes off and gets

18:46

the whole thing done. That's essentially

18:48

what Co-work is, and unlike the Chrome

18:50

extension, this works with your whole

18:52

computer, not just Chrome. You're

18:53

basically going to tell it which folders

18:55

it's allowed into, and from there, it's

18:57

going to read what's in there. It's

18:58

actually going to edit things. It's

18:59

going to make new files, and pretty much

19:01

do anything it needs to do to get the

19:02

job done. So, look, let me show you a

19:04

few examples. I can guarantee that I'm

19:05

not the only one who has a downloads

19:07

folder that's an absolute show. I'm

19:09

sure there's many of you that are in the

19:10

same position as me. You've got

19:12

screenshots from 2 years ago, PDFs you

19:14

open one, six copies of the same photo,

19:17

files that you called final final final

19:19

version three. Well, you can just point

19:20

co-work at it and tell it to go through

19:22

the entire thing and sort it out. And it

19:24

will come back and tell you how it's

19:26

planning to do that. And the second you

19:27

say sounds good, it will have it sorted

19:30

in a couple of minutes. But look, this

19:31

doesn't just apply for your folders.

19:33

Because the other thing that co-work

19:34

does is actually schedule tasks. So, a

19:36

few weeks back I actually put out a

19:37

video where I talked about how the best

19:39

way to get rich in your 20s is this

19:41

concept of skill stacking. Now, pretty

19:43

much the exact same principle applies

19:44

here. Only now you're stacking Claude's

19:46

skill instead of your own. Because

19:48

co-work can use pretty much everything

19:50

we've covered up until this point. The

19:52

memory, the skills, the connected apps,

19:54

all of it. For example, I like to start

19:55

my day with the same three things.

19:57

First, I want a summary of what I've

19:58

done the previous day and where I left

20:00

everything off. Second, I want to know

20:02

what came into my inbox and have that

20:04

categorized for me. And finally, I want

20:06

to know what my upcoming day's tasks

20:08

actually looks like. So, that way by the

20:09

time I'm sitting down with my coffee,

20:10

all of that has already been done and

20:12

waiting for me. And I didn't have to

20:14

touch a thing. And remember what I said

20:16

earlier about how Claude can get really

20:18

close to being your own personal Jarvis?

20:20

Well, at this point, we are arguably

20:22

there. Think about it. Jarvis wasn't

20:24

sitting around waiting for Tony to come

20:26

and just ask him a question. I mean,

20:27

sure he was there when it was needed,

20:29

but when he wasn't, he was running the

20:31

house and handling things for Tony

20:33

before he was even awake. The point I'm

20:35

trying to make here is that if you spend

20:37

some time setting things up properly,

20:39

Claude can be working for you while you

20:41

sleep. Now, there's also something in

20:42

there called dispatch. And this helps me

20:44

a lot because I go through phases where

20:47

I'm outside the house more than I'm in

20:48

it. So, basically what you're going to

20:50

do is you're going to pair your phone to

20:51

your computer, you're going to scan a QR

20:53

code, and that's pretty much it. From

20:55

there, you can actually send co-work a

20:56

task straight from your computer. Now,

20:59

on the surface, I know that maybe this

21:00

might look a little gimmicky, but

21:02

honestly, it's come in handy many times

21:04

when I'm halfway to a meeting or let's

21:05

say to dinner, and I remember there's

21:07

something I have to do on my computer.

21:08

All right, look, so far we have given

21:10

Claude your browser, then we gave you

21:12

your computer and files. Now, we're

21:14

actually going to allow it to build

21:15

things from scratch, and that is tip

21:17

number nine, using Claude code. Now, I

21:20

know that the name puts people off, and

21:21

I get it. You hear code, and you assume

21:23

[music] it's a developer thing that's

21:25

got nothing to do with you. And I can

21:26

tell you it's not. You describe what you

21:29

want in plain English, and then it goes

21:31

and writes the software behind it, and

21:33

then tests it. It can even fix things

21:35

when something breaks. Setting it up

21:36

really isn't that complicated. You just

21:38

download Claude desktop, and if you're

21:40

already using Co-work, like we just

21:42

mentioned, well, then you've already got

21:43

the app on your computer. Either way,

21:45

there's a code tab sitting right there.

21:47

You don't have to work with a terminal

21:48

or a dev environment or any of the other

21:51

stuff that I hear the developers on my

21:53

team talking about that quite frankly I

21:55

don't really understand that much. Now,

21:56

if you are into that kind of thing, the

21:58

option is there for you to go that

22:00

route, too, but quite frankly, you don't

22:01

need to. So, let me give you a

22:03

real-world example of what you can do

22:05

here without a single bit of coding

22:08

experience. So, our chief product

22:09

officer at consultant.com, he is a

22:12

massive runner. He loves his marathons

22:14

and all of the training stuff that goes

22:16

into it. And basically, what he did was

22:17

instead of using one of the existing

22:19

running apps, he actually just went out

22:21

and built his own. It tracks his mileage

22:23

and knows what he's training for, and it

22:24

gives him workout plans based on where

22:26

he is currently at. And because he built

22:28

it himself, it does exactly what he

22:30

needs it to do. He did not write a

22:32

single line of code, not one. [music]

22:35

And it makes sense, right? This is the

22:36

guy who runs the product side of the

22:38

company, not the engineering side. It's

22:40

cool because he did not have to go out

22:41

and find an app that was close enough to

22:44

what he wanted, and then just live with

22:46

the parts that annoyed him. He got the

22:48

exact thing that he wanted, and it cost

22:50

him nothing, minus his Claude

22:51

subscription. And you can go out and do

22:53

the exact [music] same thing, which I

22:55

think is pretty cool. Look, if you told

22:56

me 5 years ago that someone with a no

22:58

developer background could build a

23:00

proper functioning app in less than a

23:02

day, I would have called So,

23:04

whether it's a hobby that you want to

23:06

track, a [music] side project that

23:07

you're working on, or something that you

23:09

have been doing manually in a

23:11

spreadsheet for years [music]

23:12

because there was never a tool for it,

23:14

well, congratulations, there is no

23:16

reason for that anymore. You can just

23:18

build it yourself. All right, so we just

23:19

took the developer out of the equation.

23:21

Now, let's do the same thing with your

23:23

designer. And that is tip number 10, use

23:26

Claude design. Now, this is actually one

23:28

of the more recent additions. I've

23:30

played around with it a bit myself, and

23:31

the people on my design team tell me

23:33

it's pretty good. And look, if they say

23:35

that, especially technically cuz their

23:37

jobs could be on the line, I trust

23:38

[music] them completely. Now, just so

23:39

there's no confusion here, when I say

23:41

design, I'm talking about mock-ups,

23:43

landing pages, websites, things with a

23:45

set structure and layout. I'm not

23:47

talking about image generation because

23:48

I'll be honest with you, for me [music]

23:50

personally, I think Claude is probably

23:51

one of the worst out there. If you want

23:53

actual images, go and use something like

23:55

Higgsfield or Nano Banana, or quite

23:57

frankly, even ChatGPT will do you better

23:58

these days. But if it's a landing page

24:00

or a mock-up that you are after, this

24:02

thing is great. The thing is, when it

24:03

builds something, it like actually

24:05

builds it. If you ask it to build a

24:06

website, it's not just a picture of a

24:08

website that it's going to return back.

24:10

[music] It's an actual website with

24:12

working buttons, working clicks, the

24:14

whole lot. And look, I remember what

24:15

that was like back in the day when my

24:17

team had to go out and actually build

24:18

these things. It would take days,

24:20

sometimes even weeks. Today, Claude

24:22

design can do that in just a few

24:23

minutes. Now, this one falls into that

24:25

camp where it really just depends on

24:27

whether you were ever [music] going to

24:28

use it. If you are, well, then it's

24:30

going to save you a lot of time. But if

24:31

you're never going to build a landing

24:32

page or a website in your life, well,

24:34

then look, to be honest, this might feel

24:35

like a little bit of a gimmick, and I

24:37

totally get that. But either way, it's

24:39

already sat in your subscription, so at

24:41

least I wanted to make you aware of it.

24:42

All right, there we go, all 10. Every

24:44

tip that I've got sitting in your pocket

24:46

right now. And look, if you even apply

24:48

half of these, you will be miles ahead

24:50

of where most people are sitting because

24:52

they are still typing questions manually

24:55

into a chat window, and then just

24:56

copying the answers that they get back

24:58

out. You are now playing a different

25:00

game at this point. And if you really

25:01

think about it, that's exactly what

25:03

Jarvis' purpose was. Tony Stark had

25:05

Jarvis so that way everything that was

25:07

not important was handled for him and he

25:10

could [music] really focus on what he

25:12

enjoyed doing, inventing, building. And

25:14

now, congratulations because you're in

25:16

the same position. You can build your

25:18

own Jarvis. And to be honest, where you

25:21

actually direct that free time is up to

25:23

you. For some of you, you're going to

25:24

use the extra free time to spend with

25:25

your family. For others, you're going to

25:27

spend that extra free time on a hobby

25:29

that you haven't picked up in a while

25:30

because you were just too busy with the

25:32

monotonous boring work. And then for a

25:33

lot of you, it's going to free up time

25:35

for you to actually start a side hustle.

25:37

And if that's you, you're thinking,

25:38

"Okay, I have all this free time now

25:40

because all of the boring monotonous

25:42

tasks have now been handled with

25:43

Claude." That's great and Claude is a

25:46

really good personal assistant, as I

25:47

said, but it's not really a money maker.

25:50

There are other specialized tools out

25:52

there that actually help put money in

25:53

your pocket directly. But to be honest,

25:55

that's a topic for another day. Now,

25:56

before I let you go, I just want to

25:58

remind you of two things. That prompt

26:00

that I mentioned earlier, the one that

26:01

actually gets Claude to understand

26:03

everything you say from day one, I'm

26:05

going to go ahead and leave that in the

26:06

description. And secondly, if you want

26:08

to win that MacBook, remember to leave a

26:10

comment and tell me which one of these

26:11

10 tips you found the most useful. I'm

26:13

going to be reading through all of the

26:14

comments and just like before, I will

26:16

have the winner posted in the

26:18

description of next week's video and I

26:20

will pin it in the comments, too. With

26:22

all that being said, as always, I'm

26:23

watching from afar and I'm rooting for

26:25

you.

Interactive Summary

This video provides a comprehensive guide on maximizing the potential of the AI assistant Claude, moving beyond basic chat interactions to turn it into a highly efficient personal tool akin to Iron Man's JARVIS. The presenter outlines 10 actionable tips categorized into beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels, covering essential setup steps like email security, memory management through importing, understanding different AI models to balance performance and cost, and leveraging advanced features like Chrome extensions, Co-work for file management, and even building apps without coding experience.

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