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5 Steps with Chatgpt to Learn Faster and Create Smarter Content

VIDEO SUMMARY
If you’re a content creator or what I call a Creative Conductor, you’re facing two big challenges right now:

1. Learning fast.

2. Turning that learning into consistently valuable content.

In this video, I walk you through the exact 5-step system I use to capture ideas, sharpen my point of view, and use AI tools like ChatGPT strategically — without falling down endless research rabbit holes.

If you want to think better, create smarter, and build real authority in today’s AI-driven world, this one’s for you.

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TIMESTAMPS (Chapters)

0:00 Hook – The 2 biggest challenges we face as creators
0:28 Capture ideas immediately – Why your brain won’t remember that “brilliant thought”
1:05 Earl Nightingale’s “stab the idea” principle – Lock it in fast
1:28 Using quotes correctly – Add your POV for authority & GEO/AEO
2:23 Generative Engine Optimization explained – Why being cited matters now
3:06 Step 2: Record everything – Why voice beats typing
4:12 Building your idea system – Google Docs & spreadsheets
5:34 Step 3: “Terry-ize it” – Developing your unique voice
7:14 Step 4: Using ChatGPT, Gemini & Grok wisely
8:29 Perplexity commercial use warning – What you must know
9:48 Step 5: The “Doggy Draft” method – Embrace rough iterations
10:54 Live ChatGPT voice demo – Iteration and balance
12:02 Avoiding research rabbit holes – The boomerang strategy
13:18 Why ChatGPT voice + deep research is a creator superpower
14:09 Audio brain dumps – Multi-modal learning for retention

DETAILED BREAKDOWN
The Two Core Challenges We’re Facing

Let me start with what I see over and over again:

• We need to learn relevant material quickly.
• Then we need to turn that learning into meaningful content.

In today’s world of Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) and Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), simply repeating quotes isn’t enough.

You and I have to interpret, analyze, and add our own perspective if we want to stand out and actually be cited as an authority.

Step 1: Capture Ideas Immediately

I was heavily influenced by Earl Nightingale’s advice to “stab the idea.” When an idea hits you, capture it immediately.

Don’t trust your memory. It can forget way too often.

Have you noticed that? I certainly have.

Write it down — or even better — record it by voice. When you speak it out loud, you activate multiple learning modes (visual, auditory, kinesthetic). That boosts retention and clarity.

Make it your habit to regularly voice record ideas and thoughts.

Waiting to “remember later”? That doesn’t work. Systems do.

Step 2: Build Your Personal Idea Collection System

Here’s what I do in the real world:

• Highlight digitally (Kindle or eBooks)
• Dump ideas into Google Docs
• Maintain a spreadsheet to track insights
• Record voice notes for speed

This creates a searchable content vault so I’m never staring at a blank screen wondering what to talk about next.

I’ve found Google Docs works very well for this.

I also regularly use CastMagic to grab ideas for me.

Step 3: Develop Your Unique Voice (“Terry-ize It”)

Authority doesn’t come from repeating quotes.

It comes from interpreting them.

I encourage you to insert your worldview — where you agree, where you disagree, and what you’ve experienced personally. That’s how you build distinction instead of sounding like generic commentary.

Step 4: Use AI Research Strategically (Without Getting Stuck)

I use tools like:

• ChatGPT (especially voice + deep research)
• Gemini & NotebookLM
• Grok
• Perplexity

They can dramatically enhance learning and content creation — if you use them wisely.

But here’s the key: understand the terms of service, especially around commercial use. And whenever you cite research, go back to original sources.

AI is a thinking partner. It’s not a replacement for your judgment.

Step 5: Create a “Doggy Draft”

Perfectionism will kill your momentum.

My “Doggy Draft” method is simple: get the rough, rough draft out first. Don’t worry about grammar, spelling, or polish. Just move the ideas from your head into editable form.

Multi-Modal Learning for Faster Mastery

Here’s what I recommend:

• Do audio brain dumps
• Transcribe into text
• Read and listen to reinforce retention

When you combine modalities, you strengthen comprehension and accelerate creative output.

Join the Conversation

How do you capture ideas and avoid research overwhelm?

Tell me in the comments — I’d love to hear your workflow.

And if you’re serious about growing as a Creative Conductor, come explore more with us at Stark Raving Entrepreneurs.

Let’s build something meaningful.

For your convenience, here’s a transcript of this episode:

Terry Brock [00:00:00]:
Two of the biggest challenges we have as content creators, as creative conductors, is learning how to learn fast. Material that’s really relevant using that. And, also, when we’re creating, what you do, I’m gonna give you five steps on that. I’m gonna show you how I use Chat ChatGPT on my phone to get some ideas and that you can use as well. Let’s get right into it here. First of all, you wanna start reading a lot from a variety of sources. When you see a quote, when you see something you think, hey, I can use that. By all means, get it down.

Terry Brock [00:00:28]:
Get it recorded. Don’t do like my brain sometimes says, oh, I’m driving along, for instance, classic. Driving along listening to something, I go, oh, that’s a great idea. I’ll remember that. Yeah. Right, Terry. It’s out of there. So what you wanna do is you wanna record it.

Terry Brock [00:00:44]:
Get it down right away. One of the things I remember from the late great Earl Nightingale, man who was considered the dean of personal development. He said, when an idea comes, you wanna stab it. And what he meant by that was take a pen and paper. Remember that? Yeah. We used to use well, I’m doing that right now here with this. Use my paper here, and I got the pens and writing it down. But when you get an idea, you wanna grab it.

Terry Brock [00:01:05]:
And I find that helps a lot. As you’re writing it down cognitively, it seeps in a little bit better. When you write it down, also, you’re bringing in the writing, you’re seeing it, And maybe you’re talking to it as well, so you’re getting the auditory capability. All those different learning modalities. Really good. So as you see it, grab that. And you wanna start using more quotes when you’re doing something. Here’s a quote, but don’t just put it in there and go, yes.

Terry Brock [00:01:28]:
That’s a nice little quote. Oh, yeah. Okay. Good. What you want is you want to be able to say, I like what she said about this. And the reason is because of a, b, and c. Now you’re giving your opinion in there, not just saying famous person said this. Or you might say, I hear what they’re saying on that.

Terry Brock [00:01:48]:
I take a little different point of view, particularly on what they said about this. This is where Google is now looking. The old days, I mean, long, long ago, like 2025, we were looking at where things were, then, and it’s a little bit different today. It’s not just a matter of being cited with the references. I’ve put some videos out on that, here that talk about what they’re looking for now with generative engine optimization. That’s what you want. You wanna make sure that you’re doing that. And then the answer engine optimization, so you’re looking at what’s going on right there, not just a search engine.

Terry Brock [00:02:23]:
Right now, many things are being done on the website. People don’t even go over to other sites. What you wanna do is be cited as an expert so that people say, hey. When you wanna know about Ookey Waggers work with me on this. Okay? Ookey Waggers, well, then the person for that is John over here or Mary over here or Tanisha. She really knows this stuff well. Okay. Fine.

Terry Brock [00:02:46]:
Then you’re sighted, and that’s where this engine start looking at it. So that’s the first step. You wanna put that in there. I’m gonna give these five. And then I wanna show you how I did use chat g p t to do this with actual conversation. So I’m gonna do that. Step number two, record some or all of your ideas. One thing I would recommend, when you read something in a book, you go, well, that’s real good.

Terry Brock [00:03:06]:
I don’t know about you. I like to highlight it. I don’t do as much right now with paper books, although I do read some. I tend to prefer my Kindle because I can highlight it, and then it’s all collected in one place, and I can use it. Plus, I can carry my phone with me when I travel, and I can carry literally thousands of books so that I can tap into something. When I’m there in a hotel room and it’s a quiet evening in the hotel room, and I can relax and I can read some things, I like doing that as well. But I encourage you, get those down. As Earl Nightingale said, you stab that idea, you get a hold of it.

Terry Brock [00:03:40]:
And matter of fact, one of the things I would recommend, instead of writing it down, I would strongly recommend you record it. Get a system set up for you so that you can quickly talk it into your device, because we can talk faster than we can type or write, both of those. Talking is better. So you wanna get something set up, you can do it. Fortunately, with most phones today, you can do that. I’ve got a spreadsheet set up where I collect ideas and what I need to do. And in that Google spreadsheet, I just, oh, I got an idea. I need to do that.

Terry Brock [00:04:12]:
And I’ve learned, don’t just say, yes. I’ll remember it, Terry, because I don’t remember. I don’t know about you, but I have problems with it. So what I do is I go in there and I say, alright. Tap into it. Then I say, be sure and contact so and so, or here’s a great quote. And I have a Google Doc where I can put a lot of ideas that I just dump in there. So that then when it comes time to create something, I just go over there and get the information.

Terry Brock [00:04:38]:
That way it’s a whole lot better than me trying to think, gee, what am I gonna do? And somehow the ideas aren’t there. I’ve been creating content since actually, when I was back in high school. Actually, even in grade school, I was doing some things in second and third grade, writing some things down. In high school, I was on the paper there and worked for some other papers in the community. And undergrad degree was radio, TV, and newspaper. So I know a little bit about these things, but I find that when I can write it down, I work better. How does that work for you? Please leave a note in the comments wherever you’re getting this, this content. Might be on YouTube, might be with the podcast form, might be over on LinkedIn, or might be on Substack.

Terry Brock [00:05:13]:
We love Substack. Oh, great little tool. Lots of good things that are there. But I’d love to hear from you on how you do that. So that’s number two. Number three, you wanna share your point of view. This is what I call you I z e. You I z e and put your feeling, your ideas into it.

Terry Brock [00:05:34]:
I like to say, let’s say your name is John. Well, you would want to John ize it. Or if your name is Betty, you would want to Betty ize it. And as I often like to say, I’m Terry, so I like to Terry ize it. Sounds kinda cool that way. You know? Not everybody can do that, you know? So I put it in there. Let’s Terry ize it. But I want you to put your feeling in.

Terry Brock [00:05:51]:
What do I mean by that? You’re gonna put in your ideas, your ideas where you agree, where you disagree on this. And I think we need to have more of that in our society, not arguing and shouting at each other. No. But embracing what we talk about here at Stark Raving Entrepreneurs, live and let live. I don’t see anything wrong with that philosophy. You live your life, do whatever you want to do, anything, as long as, there’s this important thing, you don’t harm others, You don’t take their stuff. Okay? You don’t harm others. You don’t take their stuff.

Terry Brock [00:06:25]:
You keep your word. You say you’re gonna do something. You do it, and this is how to do it. I think our world would be better if we did that. And so in creating content, put out content from different points of view. I don’t know about you, but I’ve changed my view through life quite a bit. Matter of fact, this next week coming up, got one of those major birthdays coming in. One of the kind of birthdays that you say, when the heck did that happen there? I don’t know.

Terry Brock [00:06:49]:
But it’s there, there. And I’m looking forward to it and getting into it with gusto. But I want you to record these ideas. As they come to you, you put them down there, and you put in your own feeling, your point of view in there. So then it’s unique. Number four, you wanna ask chat g p t or your other LLMs that you’re using. I’m using Gemini, love it to pieces. Grok, I really love.

Terry Brock [00:07:14]:
Got lots of good things there. I’ll also use perplexity. Claude is also very good. There’s several that are out there. I recommend that you have one or two that you can really be comfortable with and generally a third one because you’ll sometimes get different points of view. So you wanna do that. You wanted to ask chat g p t to do some research. Now here’s where it starts sparkling because it’s one thing to hear from Terry.

Terry Brock [00:07:39]:
This is what I believe about this. Okay. That’s nice. But what’s the research saying? And this is where ChatGPT just recently, as we’re doing this recording, improved their voice capability so that you can interact even better. I’m gonna let you see an example of that in just a little bit here. It is really good if you’re using that. I’m using I’m using the paid version, $20 a month, so I can get a little bit more that way. And then also in their research, the deep research that you can get from ChatGPT, also from Gemini.

Terry Brock [00:08:09]:
Gemini has some really good research capabilities. And their NotebookLM, fabulous tool. Notebook l m is a tool that I’d recommend strongly. Take a look at it. We’ve got some videos on that that we put together. People are loving it. So looking and seeing what it can do and how it’s helping them. But then doing that deep research and also perplexity.

Terry Brock [00:08:29]:
Perplexity really sparkles when it comes to the labs. Or they used to call it labs. Now they’re calling it, something else, but it’s the the research that they have within perplexity. They do a lot with it. However, disadvantage of using perplexity, if you’re not using their 200 a month program, you are not officially allowed by their documents, their terms of agreement, to use it in a commercial venture. That’s right. This is just a side note, but really important between you and me as content creators. Careful.

Terry Brock [00:08:59]:
Because if you get a bunch of ideas and you wanna put that in from perplexity, not if you’re going to use it in business. That’s perplexity. Other LLMs will let you do that. You can use it yourself, but what you can do this is not working around. It’s what I got from Chad from perplexity himself. You might find a reference. You go, oh, I really like this one. Go over.

Terry Brock [00:09:19]:
Read the original document. Then you could refer to the original document to say this was cited by professor Smith and professor Jones at the University of Eastquackajougah or whatever. You know, put it in there, and that would be one way to work with it. Anyway, that’s something to be aware of, very important when you’re using it. And then fifth, I recommend that you put together a rough rough draft. Now I say, me being the nerd that I am, this is what I call my doggy draft. You know, you get it? Rough rough. Oh, okay.

Terry Brock [00:09:48]:
Work with me on this. Alright. You know, it’s it’s me. I’m a nerd. My brain works that way. But, I like to look at it. Don’t this is where I just do a verbal talk down. I’ll either get my microphone here and do it, or I’ll do it on my phone, be able to just do a brain dump.

Terry Brock [00:10:03]:
I’m not worried about correct grammar. I’m not worried about spelling. I’m not worried about, saying something that I go, and that’s not exactly what I meant. I meant more like this. It’s just a way to get the ideas from here up in my little noggin from bouncing around up there down onto something where I can operate on it. For me, that means Google Docs. I like to use Google Docs and get it down there in print so I can use it. Sometimes I’ll go directly into Google Docs, and I just do a brain dump of the ideas.

Terry Brock [00:10:30]:
So those are the five steps that you wanna use. Using those, you can do a lot. And so I was asking Chatt GPT about that. And I said, okay. What do you think about this? And how can we do it? And I asked him to get some, information. I told him him, I’m calling him, what I basically did there and then came back with this. So let’s see what he had to say as I talked to chat GPT about this.

ChatGPT [00:10:54]:
I like where you’re going with this. It’s a nice little learning content creation loop. It’s reflective and layered, which is a solid approach for both internalizing knowledge and producing thoughtful content. Now, a dose of reality.

Terry Brock [00:11:04]:
Here we go.

ChatGPT [00:11:04]:
Be ready for that rough draft to feel rougher than a cat’s tongue sometimes, but that’s where the magic of iteration kicks in. The key is balance. Don’t get lost in endless opinions, and don’t let perfection freeze you. Your doggy giraffe won’t bite. Overall, these steps are practical and flexible. Just be careful not to get stuck in step four, swimming in endless research. Keep moving forward, and you’ll keep learning and creating.

Terry Brock [00:11:27]:
Okay. That’s really important. And be careful you don’t get lost in those endless hunting around. And I told actually put that in there as a question because I said, I need your help on this. And I went back and I say, I was looking for it, and sometimes I’m going over here. And, oh, oh, that’s good, but did you see this over here? Oh, oh, oh, wait a minute. Did you see this one over here or the you know what I’m talking about, my fellow creative conductors. You know, you content creator.

Terry Brock [00:11:51]:
That’s what we go through on that. But I said, okay. How do I get around that chat GPT? And it gave me some real good ideas after I asked that. Listen to this.

ChatGPT [00:12:02]:
The classic intellectual treasure hunt where you start with triangles and end up in ancient philosophy and nuclear physics. The trick is to embrace those detours briefly, but always tie them back to your core thread. Set a timer if you need to, curiosity time, and when the bell rings, you yank yourself back to your purpose. Think of it like a boomerang, a quick arc out, but always returning to your main mission. That way, you get the bonus insights without building an actual nuclear plant in the process.

Terry Brock [00:12:30]:
Exactly. Because I joke with him. I said, we’d be like me going over here. Oh, let’s build a nuclear plant. Well, we did not study a whole lot about building nuclear plants when I went to business school. So I have, let’s say, zero expertise in that area. But I mentioned that too, and it was fun to do that. Now by the way, I want you to notice the main thing.

Terry Brock [00:12:47]:
I’m using the ChatGPT because now it’s a more fluid way of talking as if it were a real person here. Their most recent update gave us content creators some really good tools, in-depth talking back and forth. They’ve enhanced that quite a bit. Check it out on your own phone. Find out what it’s like. And you wanna use the phone version of this versus the laptop version version or if you have a desktop using that as well. You wanna make sure that you’re working with that. Those two, the deep research and the voice, real important.

Terry Brock [00:13:18]:
So I asked that about that. And then, when I said, that we’ve gotta take care of this, it came back and told me, yes. This is what we need to do. So my friends, you can learn a lot. When you get that idea and you’ve read a new book and you like it, I encourage you to keep stronger notes. Put it in there. Do a brain dump. Let’s say, when you’re not creating, but you’re just reading a good book and you wanna remember that.

Terry Brock [00:13:40]:
Create an audio file of it where you can dump it into Google Docs, then you because you can usually read faster in text than we can listen to something even if we click the speed up with learning on that. We can do that. And you can keep the audio if you’d like as well, so you have both. You can hear it and then read it. That way you’re tapping into the visual and the auditory modality. Grab the the touching and feeling modality also using some other things. So these are some ideas that I have. I wanna hear from you.

Terry Brock [00:14:09]:
It’s one thing for Terry to say, oh, this is what we’re doing, etcetera, etcetera. We can do that. And bounce over to starkravingentrepreneurs.com. Love to see you come over and take a look and see if we might be able to help you on that. Right now, we are really growing, getting a lot of people coming in for a session. We did one just yesterday, matter of fact. We were able to get some learning about substack, looking with that with some experts that came in to help us. Natasha Tynes come in talking about that.

Terry Brock [00:14:37]:
And this is something that can help you. So take a look at that, and I love to hear from you. Please let us know in the notes below in the comments what it is to you. I’m Terry Brock. I’m looking forward to hearing from you. And don’t forget, you’re gonna check out the video that’s coming up next. Got this one right over here that’s gonna help you to understand more about how we can use these tools in a practical real way. I’m looking forward to hearing from you.

Terry Brock [00:15:02]:
Have a wonderful day.

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