The six learning prompts from the video (ELI5, 80/20, Feynman, quiz me, first principles, Socratic) plus three more, ready to paste into ChatGPT or Claude.
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Not technical? Start here. Copy this into a new chat in ChatGPT or Claude (the free versions work). It becomes your tutor for one topic and runs you through all six prompts in order, one at a time, waiting for you after each. It asks before it assumes anything and checks with you before anything that costs money, reaches a real customer or deletes something. The rest of the page is every prompt written out, if you'd rather use them one by one.
The walkthrough prompt (copy all of it) · lines 1-4 of 35. Copy all copies the whole prompt; read it in full on the page.
Hi! Please be my patient tutor, using this guide from Receipts Group: "6 prompts that make ChatGPT teach you anything"
The guide is here: https://receiptsgroup.com/guides/chatgpt-learning-prompts (open it if you can; if you can't, everything you need is below).
About me: I run a small business (a trade like roofing, windows or plumbing) and I'm not technical. Use plain words and short sentences.This is the manual way: every prompt, written out. The prompt above follows it too.
Either one works, and the free plan is fine for this. Use a fresh chat for each topic, so stuff from some old conversation doesn't leak into your lesson.
This one's not in the video, but it makes every prompt after it better. Anthropic's own guide says to treat the AI like a brilliant but new employee who lacks context, and to tell it why you want something. So I'd tell it what my business is and why I'm learning this, before anything else. Swap everything in [BRACKETS] for your own words.
Paste this first
Before we start: I run a [YOUR TRADE] company. I want to learn [TOPIC] because [WHY YOU NEED IT]. I already know [WHAT YOU KNOW] and I have no idea about [WHAT YOU DON'T]. Keep your answers short, use examples from a business like mine, and if you're not sure something's true, say so.ChatGPT has a built-in study mode that asks you questions, gives feedback on your answers and can quiz you one question at a time, kind of like prompts 4 and 6 baked in. OpenAI says it's on every plan, works on the web, iPhone and Android, and you have to be logged in.
It doesn't show up inside GPTs or Projects, so use a regular chat. To turn it off, delete the Study tag from the box where you type. You don't need it for any prompt on this page, it's just a nice extra.
Same order as the video, and that's the order I'd use them in: understand it, cut it down, explain it back, get tested, check what's actually true, then get grilled. Swap [TOPIC] for whatever you're learning. Each one has an example topic, and the examples are just examples, not advice about your business.
Start here when the topic is full of words you don't know. You're not dumb, it's just new. Once the simple version makes sense, ask for the next level up.
Example topic: what SEO is (getting your website to show up in Google without paying for ads).
Prompt 1: ELI5
Explain [TOPIC] like I'm five. Use plain words and one everyday example. No jargon: if you have to use a technical word, explain it in one short sentence. Then ask me if I want the next level up.The 80/20 rule is the idea that a small slice of something (about 20%) gets you most of the results (about 80%). It's a rule of thumb, not a law of nature, but it's great for cutting a huge topic down to where to start. If I was learning SEO, this is where I'd start.
Example topic: SEO for a roofing company's website.
Prompt 2: 80/20
I'm learning [TOPIC] for [MY BUSINESS]. Using the 80/20 rule, tell me the 20% of it that gets me 80% of the results. Give me no more than five things, in the order I should learn them, one line each on why it matters. Then tell me what I can safely ignore for now.The Feynman technique means you explain the thing in plain words, like you're teaching it, and the spots where you stumble are the spots you don't really get. Type your explanation out, even if it's rough. The AI tells you where you're winging it.
Example topic: how a lead gets from my website form into my CRM (the software that keeps track of your customers).
Prompt 3: Feynman
I'm going to explain [TOPIC] back to you in my own words, like I'm teaching it to a new hire. Use the Feynman technique: point out exactly where I'm vague, wrong or skipping a step, and ask me one question about the weakest part. Don't rewrite my explanation for me.
Here's my explanation:
[PASTE YOUR EXPLANATION]I nod along like I get it, and I don't. A quiz finds that out fast. The important part is "one at a time": if it dumps ten questions at once, you'll just read ahead.
Example topic: reading a profit and loss statement (the report that shows what came in, what went out and what's left).
Prompt 4: quiz me
Quiz me on [TOPIC]. Ask one question at a time and wait for my answer before the next one. Mix multiple choice with questions I have to answer in my own words. After each answer, tell me if I got it right and why, and keep a running score. After 10 questions, tell me the two things I should go back over.First principles means breaking something down to the basic facts that are true no matter what, and building back up from there, instead of copying how everybody else does it. It's how you tell the real rules apart from the habits people repeat.
Example topic: how Google Ads decides what I pay for a click.
Prompt 5: first principles
Break [TOPIC] down to first principles. What are the basic facts that are true no matter what tool or company I use? Build back up from those, one step at a time. Flag anything that's just a common habit or an opinion rather than a fact, and tell me which parts I should check with an official source.Socrates taught by asking questions instead of giving answers. So this one won't tell you anything, it just keeps asking until you figure it out yourself. It's a pain, and it's the one that sticks, because you did the thinking.
Example topic: why my website gets visits but no calls.
Prompt 6: Socrates
Teach me [TOPIC] like Socrates. Don't give me the answer. Ask me one question at a time that pushes me toward figuring it out myself, and wait for my answer each time. If I'm stuck twice in a row, give me a small hint, not the answer. When I've got it, have me sum it up in two sentences.These didn't make the video, but they're the ones I'd use to keep what I learned. Run them at the end of the same chat, so it already knows the topic.
7. Sticky notes (example topic: what to ask a lead vendor)
Turn what we just covered on [TOPIC] into 10 sticky notes. One idea per note, 15 words max each, in plain words, numbered in the order I should learn them. I want to be able to write them on real sticky notes or keep them on my phone.8. Mind map (example topic: everything that goes into my Google Business Profile)
Make a mind map of [TOPIC] as an indented outline I can copy: the topic at the top, 4 to 6 main branches under it, and 2 to 4 short points on each branch. Keep every point under 10 words.9. One-page study guide (example topic: how a phone call becomes a booked appointment)
Make a one-page study guide for [TOPIC] that I can print. A title, the 5 key ideas with one line each and one example from a business like mine, a simple table if comparing two things helps, and 3 quiz questions at the bottom with the answers listed at the very end.Keep it as text. If you ask for the study guide as a picture, the AI has to draw every letter, and that's where typos sneak in.
Before you trust it with something new, test it on something you already know cold, from your own trade. Paste this, answer the questions, and give one wrong answer on purpose.
Prompt: the test
Explain [SOMETHING FROM MY OWN TRADE I KNOW WELL] like I'm five. Then quiz me with three questions, one at a time, and wait for my answer each time. Tell me if each answer is right and why.Good: the simple explanation matches what you know from the job, it asks one question and waits, and it catches your wrong answer and tells you why. Bad: it gets something about your own trade wrong, it asks all three at once, or it says your wrong answer is right. If that happens, say exactly what it got wrong and run it again. And remember it: on a topic you don't know, you wouldn't have caught that.
Checked 2026-10-31 on OpenAI's and Anthropic's pricing pages. Prices change: check before you buy.
Every prompt on this page works on the free plans. I'd only pay if you're hitting the limit every day, and you'll know, because it tells you.
Say "one question at a time, and wait for my answer" again. In ChatGPT, study mode quizzes one question at a time on its own.
Remind it: "Don't give me the answer, ask me a question instead. Hints only if I'm stuck twice." If it keeps slipping, start a new chat and paste prompt 6 first, before anything else.
It can be. OpenAI's own study mode page says it can make mistakes and to double-check. Ask "how sure are you, and where would I check that?", then check anything you'll act on (a law, a price, a tax rule, a setting) on the official source.
Paste back the words you didn't get and say "explain these like I'm five, one sentence each".
Tell it more about your business first (the "Paste this first" prompt), and hold it to "five things max, for a business like mine".
Say "don't rewrite it, just list where I'm vague or wrong". The point is that you fix it, not it.
You're probably inside a GPT or a Project. Open a regular new chat and make sure you're logged in. And you don't need it: every prompt here works without it.
Wait for it to reset, or switch to the other one (ChatGPT or Claude) and paste the same prompt. Only upgrade if it happens all the time.
What each page backs up is listed at the end of the full guide.
Make it simple, cut it to what matters, explain it back, get quizzed, check what's true, then let it grill you with questions. The last one's a pain, and it's the one you'll still remember next month.
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Open the full guide as a page (every file in full, plus the table of contents).