Become a ChatGPT expert in 4 steps

5 Jan 2026 · 1 min

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A short instructional YouTube clip by Nick Kugelman that teaches a four-step prompting process to improve ChatGPT interactions. The speaker outlines four core elements to include when prompting: (1) role — tell the AI which persona or perspective to adopt, (2) context — state the task or goal, (3) command — give the explicit action requested, and (4) format — specify how to receive the output (e.g., spreadsheet, bulleted list). The video ends with a tip to ask the model to produce the concise prompt that would have yielded the best output more quickly.

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I'm going to take you from ChatGPT beginner to expert using a four step prompting process that I created. Number one is the role. When you're chatting with AI, you got to tell it how to think. If it's a marketing tweet, you got to say as a marketer, because then it uses that information to go look around its neural network for information that matches to that. Number two is the context. You have to tell it what you're trying to do. If you're writing a better blog, tell it. I'm trying to write a better blog. I'm trying to create 10 awesome novel tweets for my client. Number three, give it the command for what you want. So, so if you want 10 tweets, tell it I need you to write me 10 tweets. And then the fourth is the format. The format is how you want to consume it. So you might want it in a spreadsheet, you might want it in a bulleted list that'll give you the output. Once you get that output dialed in, and it's awesome, ask it to write the command or the prompt that would have got you to that place faster.