Complete beginnerLesson 3 of 55 min read
Getting anything explained at your own level
A course from the Academy: The requests that are used every day
Go to the quiz ↓It's the most underrated use. An AI never tires of being asked the same thing in a different way, and that's exactly what's missing when you're learning on your own.
The three prompts that work
"Explain this to me as if I knew nothing about it."
"Give me an analogy with something from everyday life." It's often the analogy that unlocks things, not the definition.
"Ask me three questions to check if I've understood." The most valuable of the three, and the least used: it makes you work instead of making you read.
Keep going without hesitation
"I still haven't understood" is a perfectly valid sentence. Ask again three times if needed, with a different angle each time. It's free and no one gets impatient.
The trap
If the topic is precise and verifiable (a figure, a date, a law), cross-check with another source. It explains very well, it sometimes gets details wrong, and it gets them wrong with the same confidence as when it's right.
What to do now
Pick something you've never fully understood. Ask for the simple explanation, then the analogy, then the three questions.
Complete the lesson
A 4-question quiz: 3 correct answers are enough, plus an exercise to practise. It opens in the Academy, on this same lesson.
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