Everything You Just Learned
That's the entire working skill set. It fits on one card:
The whole course in five lines
- Pick one tool — ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. Free is fine. Type the address yourself.
- Format + Topic + Tone. Say what to make, about what, in what voice. That's the prompt.
- Keep talking to it. "Shorter." "Warmer." "Now as a pirate." It remembers the thread.
- Trust it with words, not facts. Rewriting: fine. Numbers, names, dates, laws: verify outside the tool.
- Nothing private in a free tool. Describe the situation, not the person.
If you only remember one line of the whole thing, make it this one:
It's brilliant at shaping words you have.
It's unreliable at facts you don't.
Two Real Situations
Last two. Then the certificate's yours.
You ask for a social post about your shop. What comes back is accurate but stiff and corporate — not you at all. What do you do?
You ask AI to explain a rule that affects your business. It gives a clear, confident answer with a specific regulation number. What now?
One Thing Before You Go
Open your tool and paste this in. It's the whole course in one line, and it takes ten seconds:
Write a short, friendly thank-you note to a customer. Then rewrite it as a pirate.
You'll see both halves at once — format, topic and tone in the first request, and the follow-up trick in the second. That's the skill, done.
That's the course.
You can use this thing properly now — and just as importantly, you know when not to trust it. Go claim your certificate.