I turned a book into a GPT (super learning method)

Summary

The video demonstrates how to create a custom ChatGPT assistant to serve as an interactive study guide for any book. It uploads a PDF version of the self-help book 'Maximum Achievement' to ChatGPT's knowledge base, then programs the AI with custom instructions to extract key concepts, provide alternative perspectives, and guide note-taking when prompted. This allows the user to retain knowledge better compared to traditional studying. The video explains the step-by-step process to set up such an AI study buddy for personalized and enhanced learning.

Takeaways

• 😃 The idea of creating a GPT based on a book to help study and retain information better
• 📚 Uploading a PDF version of a book to the GPT's knowledge so it can reference it when asked questions
• 🤔 Using conditional logic and protocols within the GPT to provide customized help for sections of the book
• 📝 Having the GPT provide a double entry journal method to take better notes on sections
• 🤨 Getting alternative perspectives from the GPT on different sections of the book
• 🎯 Using a built-in 12 step goal setting process from the book via the GPT
• ⚙️ Adding custom conversation starters to trigger logic flows for different tasks
• 🌟 Ability to retain and reference knowledge from a book easily via the GPT
• ✏️ Taking better notes and creating goals using proven techniques from the book
• 📈 Utilizing GPT's full potential to maximize learning and productivity

Q & A

What gave the narrator the idea to create a GPT based on a book?

The narrator's brother, referred to as 'productive dude', suggested turning books into GPTs to take better notes and retain information more easily.

What book did the narrator decide to base his demo GPT on?

The narrator decided to base his demo GPT on the book 'Maximum Achievement' by Brian Tracy.

How does the narrator upload the book content to the GPT?

The narrator uploads a PDF version of the book to the 'Knowledge' section of the GPT he creates.

What are some of the custom conversation starters the narrator adds?

Some of the conversation starters are: 'I need help creating notes for a section of the book', 'I need an alternative perspective', and 'I need help creating goals'.

What note-taking strategy does the narrator implement for the first conversation starter?

For the first conversation starter, the narrator implements a 'double entry journal' note-taking strategy.

How does the alternative perspective conversation starter work?

The user inputs a section of the book, and the GPT provides two alternative perspectives on the ideas presented in that section.

What does the narrator say about goal-setting instructions?

The narrator tells the GPT to reference a 12-step goal-setting system from Chapter 5 of the book to guide users through goal creation.

What chatbot course does the narrator promote?

The narrator promotes his 'Chat GPT Mastery' course for learning ChatGPT in-depth, with over 300 members.

Why doesn't the goal-setting conversation starter work as expected initially?

Initially it doesn't work because the GPT takes too long searching through the lengthy PDF to find the exact 12-step system.

What does the narrator suggest could make the goal-setting protocol work better?

The narrator suggests laying out the 12-step system more explicitly so the GPT doesn't have to search through so many pages.

Outlines

00:00

😊 Introducing the idea of creating a GPT study buddy

The paragraph introduces the idea of turning books into GPTs to take better notes, retain information, and utilize GPT as a study buddy. It mentions creating a GPT for the book Maximum Achievement and interacting with the book by uploading a PDF version. It talks about giving the GPT custom actions and protocols to run when certain questions are asked.

05:02

👍 Adding instructions for the GPT study buddy

The paragraph discusses adding instructions for the GPT study buddy such as referencing the uploaded book PDF to answer questions. It mentions configuring the GPT to reference the book when general questions are asked about related topics. It also talks about using the GPT to provide answers and strategies from the book to help the user.

10:02

📝 Creating a note-taking conversation starter

The paragraph focuses on creating a "I need help creating notes" conversation starter. It talks about finding effective note-taking strategies and implementing a double entry journal method. It shows an example interaction using the starter to create notes for the homeostasis section in Chapter 3.

15:03

💡 Wrap up and completion of the book GPT

The paragraph concludes by wrapping up creation of the book GPT study buddy. It talks about adding additional conversation starters for getting alternative perspectives and help with goal setting. It shows examples of using the starters and mentions the potential to expand with additional actions.

Keywords

💡ChatGPT

ChatGPT is an AI system developed by OpenAI that can understand natural language prompts and generate human-like responses. In the video, the host uses ChatGPT to create a customized AI assistant based on the book "Maximum Achievement" which can answer questions, summarize sections, and help apply principles from the book.

💡GPT

GPT stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer and refers to AI models developed by OpenAI that are trained on vast amounts of text data to generate human-like language. The host creates a customized GPT for the "Maximum Achievement" book by uploading a PDF version and configuring it to reference the book when answering questions.

💡PDF Uploading

A key technique in the video is uploading a PDF version of the "Maximum Achievement" book to ChatGPT so that the AI can directly reference the book when responding to prompts. This allows creating a custom GPT tightly integrated with the book's content.

💡Conversation Starters

The host configures several conversation starters which trigger custom dialogues related to the book, such as asking for a summary of a section or an alternative perspective on a concept from the book. These allow smoothly interacting with the AI.

💡Note-Taking

One conversation starter triggers a note-taking workflow where ChatGPT extracts key quotes and concepts from a section of the book selected by the user and assists in annotating and summarizing the section.

💡Goal-Setting

Another conversation starter asks ChatGPT to guide the user through a 12-step goal setting process outlined in the "Maximum Achievement" book, allowing the user to leverage the book's methodology.

💡Alternative Perspectives

The host configures ChatGPT to provide alternative viewpoints on sections of the book through a custom conversation starter, enhancing critical thinking and analysis of the material.

💡Knowledge Retention

A key benefit highlighted is using ChatGPT as a study aid for retaining knowledge from books more effectively via customized interactions.

💡Super Learning

The host frames the customized ChatGPT as enabling 'super learning' with books through AI-assisted study techniques like note-taking, Q&A, and applying book principles.

💡Workflow Integration

Potential integration with productivity systems like Notion and custom workflows for exporting work are noted as ways ChatGPT can augment human learning processes.

Highlights

The idea to turn books into GPTs to take better notes and retain information

Uploading a PDF version of a book to ChatGPT to interact with the entire book through a custom GPT

Adding custom actions and conditional logic to the GPT based on the book's contents and systems

Using the GPT as a study buddy to ask questions, get insights, and take notes on the book

Creating a note-taking GPT that uses a double entry journal method to understand sections of the book

Having the GPT play devil's advocate and provide alternative perspectives on sections of the book

Getting the GPT to guide the user through the book's 12-step goal setting system

This allows creating customizable GPTs for any book with an online PDF version

The GPT can reference the full book PDF to answer questions and follow protocols

Adding conversation starters eliminates needing to type prompts every time

Custom instructions allow the GPT to run processes after certain conversation starters

The double entry journal method has the GPT pull quotes and allow note taking

Alternative perspective conversation provides different views on sections

Goal setting conversation walks through the book's built-in 12 step system

This is a template for supercharged learning and knowledge retention with GPTs

Transcripts

the other day I was having a

conversation with my brother and you may

know my brother as productive dude here

on YouTube or other words the king of

notion but we were having a conversation

about knowledge and he was telling me

that he wanted to start turning his

books that he was reading into gpts not

only so that he could take notes easier

but so that he could learn the book

better and retain that information

better as well so I got to thinking I'm

like you know what this would be a great

YouTube video idea

and so that's what I'm doing in this

video today I have this book called

maximum achievement by Brian Tracy it's

a great book and it gives you strategies

and skills will unlock your hidden

powers to succeed and I thought if I can

find an online pdf version of this book

which I did then I could upload that to

chat GPT and interact with the entire

book through a GPT custom to that book I

could give it custom actions and I could

have it do certain things whenever I ask

certain questions run through certain

protocols so that's what I'm going to

show you in today's video I'm going to

walk you through how I built this GPT uh

for this book and I'm also going to show

you some of the conditional logic that I

added um so that when I hit an

activation command it runs through a

certain protocol uh based on this book

and systems within this book it's very

cool system and yeah thank you to

productive dude for giving me this idea

and I suggest you try it out now by no

means do I want you to go and rip a free

pdf um I actually have the book and if

the PDF was paid for and it wasn't free

online then I would definitely be buying

the PDF uh as well so keep that in mind

and yeah let's get into the rest of the

video now before we jump into this video

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after doing this course now let's get

back into the video so let's go in here

and let's get started I want to create a

GPT based on maximum achievement so

that's what I'm going to do first I'm

going to select create a GPT and I can

give this GPT a name I might just name

it the book that I'm reading so maximum

achievement and by the way I'm not sure

if this is going to work on every book

but I know this book has an online pdf

um that I can download so that's going

to be very useful and a big contributing

factor factor to actually uh creating

this GPT book and then I can give a

description now I can go in here and I

can create a quick image so I've emailed

it to myself and now I am uploading the

photo so I'm just going to hit open and

now we have that nice little book title

right there it looks kind of cool I can

trim that down if I'd like to but I like

how it's personal and I don't really

want to use an AI generated picture I

can just take the picture of the book

right on my desk um I think that's kind

of a good way to go about it and I get

into adding the instructions but first I

want to dive into the knowledge section

of this GPT because that's the most

important part how are we going to

actually upload this book to uh this GPT

well you need a PDF and this is the only

way that I've thought about doing this

and I know maximum achievement has a PDF

so that's what I'm going to type in now

that that's saved to my desktop what I

can do is I can upload that knowledge to

the file section of my GPT I can click

in here open up this PDF just like that

and it's a a whole book it's 258 Pages

uh on a PDF and this has the ability to

upload to chat gbt and chat gbt can

reference this information anytime I

have a question or anytime I want to run

through one of the protocols within the

books so now I can dive into my

conversation starters and my

instructions since I have the entire

book right here within the GPT this is

absolutely insane not only is it going

to be a wonderful study buddy but it's

also going to be a plethora of

information that I could be forgetting

within this book anytime I have a

question about it I can come right back

to it this is amazing stuff so right now

what I have created is a general idea of

what I want this book GPT to do I say

you are a study buddy and guide for the

book maximum achievement by Brian Tracy

anytime a question is asked about the

book reference the PDF uploaded under

knowledge so anytime I have a question

about this book or a statement that I

want to create or make or maybe I want a

an analysis of a certain section chat

GPT using this GPT is going to reference

set PDF that I've uploaded under the

knowledge section and I say when other

general questions are asked about goal

setting mindset happiness greatness

psychology philosophy business economics

history metaphysics Etc I want you to

also reference the knowledge book PDF

and then I say lastly if the user ever

needs help first reference the book and

then based on the knowledge of the book

give an answer use the strategies and

techniques within the book to help the

user so if I have a specific problem

that I wanted to come to this book for

instead of flipping through here trying

to remember where I was at or looking

back at my handwritten notes I can just

go to chat gbt and get exactly what I

want from this book now I'm going to

customize this workflow a little bit and

add some conversation starters that way

I don't have to type out prompts every

single time and then after I add the

conversation starters I'm going to go in

these custom instructions and add the

logic for what this GPT needs to do

whenever a certain conversation starter

is selected so the first conversation

starter I can add is I need help

creating notes for a section of the book

so this can be the first conversation

stter creating notes for a certain

section of the book that I can actually

take in and apply to my life or that

just helps me better remember this so

when I say this conversation starter

what do I want chat gbt to do I can get

into that a little bit later first I

need to find effective note taking

strategies in order to create good notes

and then I can give those note taking

strategies to the instructions so that

when I hit the specific conversation

starter I can have chat gbt take me

through a note-taking protocol that I

know works every time I can get into

that a little bit later but first I'm

going to add some other conversation

starters here so now I've added two more

conversation starters I need an

alternative perspective and I need help

creating goals now within the book there

are certain sections that I think would

just be good to get an alternative

perspective on you know CH have chat GPT

play The Devil's Advocate kind of have

it run through what a different uh route

to get to what he's talking about would

be and I can set up the custom

instructions for that and then I also

have I need help creating goals because

within the book there's a 12-step

process for creating goals and anytime I

want to create a goal I can have chat

gbt run through that 12-step protocol by

just saying reference that in the book I

don't have to put the entire um 12-step

protocol within the backend instructions

here I can just say reference that part

of the book to help me create the goals

and it will reference this PDF that I've

uploaded on the book and it will help me

pinpoint and create goals based on that

12-step system so now I need to

implement all the instructions uh for

these conversation starters so I can

have ease of use when using this GPT so

the first thing I'm going to do is I'm

going to find effective note taking

strategies within chat GPT that way I

can effectively create notes for when

I'm reading this book so I'm going to

ask chat gbt find me 10 unique and super

effective note taking strategies for

studying knowledge within books I can

send that off and now I'm going to find

a unique note taking strategy from chat

gbt uh that sounds appealing to me that

sounds like I would retain and learn

information in a good way after reading

through all of these not taking methods

that chat gbt generated I really like

the double entry journal it says divide

the page into two columns on the left

write down quotes or key Concepts

directly from the book so that's what

chat gbt can do it can write down those

quotes for me and then I can on the

right fill out in a numbered list or

whatever it may be my own thoughts

questions or interpretations of that

book as well that will kind of help me

remember what's in the passage and also

help me give my opinion on what's

actually happening in the book so this

is the one that I'm going to use I'm

going to copy that just so I have it and

then I can X out of that Tab and now I'm

back in my GPT and then I can get into

the logic of these conversation starts

so I can say when the user says I need

help creating notes for a section of the

book so now anytime I select this

conversation starter anything I put

after this uh little prompt in the

instructions right here chat GPT will

run through within this GPT so then I

said run through this process and I

paste it in the double entry journal I

know that I want to do the double entry

journal but since we're not using an

actual paper we're using chat GPT I want

to reframe this in a different way so

instead of dividing the page into two

columns I can say create a table the

column on the left write quotes or key

Concepts directly from the user

specified section and then leave the

right column of that table blank and

prompt the user to write their own

thoughts questions or

interpretations for each point you

provide so that's the idea of the double

entry journal but first we need to have

this GPT ask the user what section they

need help on so I'll have this be step

two and I'll say run through this

process and then I need a step one of

ask the user which section they need

help studying and then I can give more

instructions into this action so then I

say when the user specifies a section of

the book they need help with move on to

step two so it's first going to ask the

user which section they need help

studying with uh after they send off

this conversation starter and then

they're going to move on to the double

entry journal method and then I write a

third step I say after the user writes

down their thoughts for each question

send the user completed version of the

table with their notes included in the

right column matching the left so this

is the first logical uh run through that

we have using one of the conversation

starters so anytime now on the right

here somebody sends off I need help

creating notes for a section of the book

it's going to run through that

three-step process that we just created

in the back end of the instructions so

first it's going to have us specify

which section of the book we need

assistance with and then I will look

through here actually and find a good

section to get help from so I know this

is going to be mirrored but I'm going to

get a section from chapter 3 called

homeostasis so then all I have to say is

the section I need help with I can say

the homeostasis section in chapter 3

because it asked uh which section of the

book do you need assistance with I can

just say the exact section in the exact

chapter I can send it off and then it's

going to start going through that

note-taking process that we told it to

uh after it finds that section through

the PDF that we uploaded earlier in this

video and then it does just as we asked

it does this double entry journal method

in order to uh help us fill out this

section and better understand and

interpret this section so right here I

can list how I can apply this in my life

or my thoughts on the person I currently

am or anything that's going to help me

better understand the section with note

taking right and what you can do is you

can actually upload multiple different

strategies in here for this one command

and you can have chat GPT decide which

strategy is better based on the section

but I'm not going to get that in depth

right now so then I can fill out my

thoughts and I'm just put some arbitrary

information in here uh it's not stuff

that I would actually put would actually

sit down and think about this a little

bit better um now this note taking

method I'm not too sure about I think

it's okay but I think I could definitely

find a better way of taking notes but

I'm just showing you this as an example

of how you can run chat gbt through

these protocols after selecting a

certain conversation starter so now I

can send off that message and it will

finish that step-by-step system by

providing me with a completed version of

this table as you can see right up here

it's just putting your thoughts here and

it gives us a space to put our thoughts

down that second column but now it's

actually filling out this entire table

for us to either uh copy and paste

screenshot or put anywhere within our

notes so this is kind of a fun way you

can take notes on a book with chat gbt I

gave it a specific section with my GPT

and accessed its knowledge database

which is the PDF of the book and then it

took me through a custom note taking

method that I set up in the back end now

I'm actually going to go through here

and figure out what I want to put for

these other conversation starters so now

I'm done providing instructions I've

added two more protocols for this to run

through after those conversation

starters are selected I have an I need

an alternative perspective where the

user can actually input a section and

then after the user inputs a section uh

this GPT will give two alternative

perspectives that differ from the main

point that the author is trying to get

across and it offers a fresh perspective

or a different way of going about that

General topic and then the second set of

instructions I added where I need help

creating goals so there's a section in

the book found in chapter 5 called the

12-step system for creating goals and I

told it to reference that 12-step system

and to guide the user through that

process one step at a time until the

final result is achieved and all 12

questions SL activities are complete and

once the user answers all 12 questions

and does the activities to compile

everything the user wrote in regards to

creating that specific set of goals so

they can reference everything in a nice

list so now this GPT is complete I have

my three conversation starters I could

even go as far is adding different

actions in order to have this saved to

my notion account or have this emailed

to me or have a Google dot created of my

notes Etc I could have it do all that

but for now what I'm going to do is I'm

going to hit save to only me and then

I'm going to hit confirm and you can't

really see the confirm button right now

because it's behind my head me talking

so I'm going to hit that and then it's

going to save this GPT and I can test it

out just like that we have a nice book

GPT that I can go into I can uh ask

questions about the book it doesn't have

to be using just these conversation

starters remember uh this is my study

buddy so I can ask about certain

questions of the book get insights take

notes I can do whatever I need when I'm

reading and I can use chat GPT uh as my

knowledge retention SL learning Tool uh

as I'm as I'm going through this book

it's a great way of expanding on your

knowledge and also just utilizing chat

GPT to its maximum potential so I can

select I need help creating goals and

it's going to run me through that 12

step step system that I wanted it to

reference within a specific part of the

book so I can come back and if I found

that goal setting method successful then

I can always come back here and I can

keep creating goals using this exact

system that I used to find success and

then it starts to say it's been

reviewing the book but it's been taking

a little bit longer than expected to

find that 12-step system but it's

running me through another Brian Tracy

goal setting process and it says it's

going to continue searching for that

12-step process and it's still going to

walk me through the principles of this

book for goal setting which is the main

idea of it now I could make this a

little bit easier Easier by just laying

out the 12ep system so it doesn't have

to go through 40 pages worth of PDF in

order to figure out what it is but I've

was kind of pushing it to its limits to

see if it could actually do that and I'm

sure it could with a little bit more

time and a little bit more refining but

then I can go back here I can hit new

chat and then I can say I need an

alternative perspective and I can kind

of go through that protocol and it's

going to use those custom instructions

that I prompted in the back end in order

to walk me step by step through this so

it says which section of the book uh

maximum achievement do you need an

alternative perspective for I can say

something like why people don't set

goals in chapter 5 I can send that off

and I spelled chapter wrong but that's

no big deal and now this GPT is going to

go through that process search the

knowledge and offer two alternative

perspectives on the matter so now it's

diving into the section that I

referenced and then it's giving two

alternative perspectives on this topic

which is very cool so this part of the

GPT is working exactly how I want it to

and this is just one example of how you

could utilize a book GPT and getting

alternative perspectives so this has

been a fun idea for a GPT that I hope

you can take some notes from I hope you

can utilize in your own workflow once

again thank you to productive dude for

giving me this idea I did not come up

with this on my own I give full credit

to productive dude I just wanted to

bring it to life in the video to show

all of you how it's possible and some

different techniques you could use for

super learning with chat GPT with that

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